The Monroe County reporter. (Forsyth, Ga.) 1972-current, June 29, 2016, Image 1

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Newspaper Page TextTHIS WEEK’S INSIDE DEALS: SmartSource, CVS, Family Dollar, Lowe’s, Sears, Wal-Mart, Ingles and P&G Brandsaver Inside MP’s new baseball coach is... See Page 1B About this Blount tree See Page 2A Deaths George ‘Mac’ Cone Evelyn Murner Crutchfield Clifton Gaynell Shannon Emily Patterson Virginia Hodges Garnto See Page 6A WELCOME ~to~tlTe~fatTfily] ffloaaiiiHKfaiisD 3 Justin Wachtel Jarrett Hitchcock Laura McLendon Get your name on this list by subscribing today. 52 issues just$35 in Monroe County. Call 994-2358 or go to www.mymcr.net. a oa ao5 3341b a Juliette man is charged with threatening to shoot up MCSO BRIAN PAUL BY WILL DAVIS publisher@rnyrncr.net A Juliette man is charged with threatening to shoot up the Monroe County Sheriffs Office, but investigators say he has a mental health issue and they don’t see it as an imminent threat. Bibb County deputy Matthew Coleman was dispatched to the office of Dr. Nicholas Pietrzak on Ridge Avenue in Macon on June 15 upon reports that a patient was making threats. Nurse practitioner Amanda Harmon told Coleman that while speaking with patient Brian Paul, of 59 Tina Drive, Juliette, he began saying he planned to “shoot up” the Monroe County sheriffs office. He said he was angry they had arrested him for dis orderly conduct. Paul also said that satellites were spying on him and that his phone is bugged. Bibb County swore out a warrant on Paul and he was arrested later that day. He is free on bond. Monroe County depu ties had arrested Paul for disorderly conduct on May 21 after his neighbor complained that Paul was making negative comments toward his family and pointing a flashlight at their home. The neighbor said Paul also called his mother late at night to tell her that someone was on her roof, and said he was con cerned about Paul shoot ing weapons since he had small children. While a deputy met with Paul the see THREAT page 5A SunSoum Sunflower explosion Henry and Susan Davis of Hwy. 41 in Bolingbroke are welcoming another big sun flower crop for the summer, and they are also welcoming sight-seers to take photos. Mr. Davis said they may enter at his property’s south gate as his driveway is under repairs. Mr. Davis said people complained last year because he put up an electric fence but he said it wasn’t meant to discourage visitors. He said people can also buy sunflowers with proceeds going to his church. Davis said his wife Susan actually plants the sunflowers and they’re at peak for about a week. Wounded deputy to enforce code BY RICHARD DUMAS forsyth@rnyrncr.net Monroe County has hired Dep. Jeff Wilson of the Monroe County Sheriffs Office as the county’s new code enforce ment officer. Wilson, who has been battling lingering medical issues that have kept him off of patrol duty, was hired late last month to be the county’s first code enforcement officer in a posi tion created in April. Wilson’s office is in the commission building. Wilson was shot in September 2014 while responding to a suicide call at a Haley Road home. Another deputy, Michael Norris, was killed by the alleged assailant Chris Calmer. Calmer is scheduled to return to court on Monday, July 11 in his death penalty case. Wilson has been in court: for most of Calmer’s pre-trial hear ings. Wilson, who began his new position on May 31, also attended Tuesday’s meeting. His salary will remain $30,962. He was named Citizen of the Year for 2014. WILSON Fireworks are Sun. Early deadlines this week BY DIANE GLIDEWELL news@mymcr. net Gather family and friends together on Sunday eve ning and begin your Independence Day cel ebration. Main Street see FOURTH page 5A Kemp to hear county line dispute, again Secretary of State Brian Kemp, right, will host a hearing on the county line Thursday. BY RICHARD DUMAS forsyth@mymcr. net Georgia Secretary of State Brian Kemp will hold a status conference in Atlanta at 10:30 a.m. on Thursday to update the ongoing Bibb-Monroe county line dispute. The status conference will be held in Room 214 of the State Capitol. Kemp announced in an e-mail dated June 16 and addressed to Bibb County attorneys Virgil Adams and James Jordan, Monroe County attorney Ben Vaughn, King & Spalding attorneys Letitia McDonald, Jessica Sabbath, former King & Spalding attorney Carolyn “Tippi Burch and surveyor Terry Scarborough that he plans to hold another eviden tiary hearing on the matter on see KEMP page 6A

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The Monroe County reporter. (Forsyth, Ga.) 1972-current, June 29, 2016, Image 1