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www.MyMCR.net • Vol. 50 • No. 23
4 Sections, 24 Pages • Wednesday • June 9,2021
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Stanley Scott
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Man brings heat for pee on seat
By Steve Reece
stevereece@gmail.com
A High Falls man went to
jail for pulling a pistol on a
coworker who allegedly peed
on the toilet seat on June 1.
According to the sheriffs
report, Alyssa Freels at N &
J Maintenance on High Falls
Road told deputy Peyton
Henderson around 1:40
p.m. on Tuesday, June 1 that
a man puUed a gun on her
boyfriend, Logan Davis, 19,
of High Falls. Davis said he
used the restroom inside
the business and he was
unaware of peeing on the
toilet seat. He stated after
using the restroom, he went
outside the business to finish
working and a coworker,
Jonathan Black, 36, of Griffin
came outside and began to
yell about the pee on the
toilet seat.
Davis said Black then went
to his truck, parked in the
adjacent Sunoco parking
lot, and grabbed his firearm.
He said that Black then
stated, “Come down here,
I’m gonna shoot you in your
a**” and cocked the gun. He
said the gun was possibly a
black 9mm.
Black told Hen
derson he con
fronted everyone
outside the busi
ness about pee on
the toilet seat. He
said he was angry
and told Davis,
“I’m gonna pop
you in your a**’!’
Henderson asked
if he had a gun, to which he
stated no but that he
was holding a black
radar gun.
Black then gave
deputy Phillip Bill-
ingslea permission to
search his truck, but
no firearm was found.
See PEE • Page 6A
BLACK
To repair
Church, friends building
couple a new home after
termites destroy old one
By Will Davis
publ isher™ mymcmet
Cheryl Bennett was all smiles on Saturday as friends and church fam
ily helped build them a new home.
Roger and Cheryl Bennett of Juliette
discovered a family’s worst nightmare last
month. Their home for the past 36 years at
5328 Juliette Road had quietly been eaten up
by termites. Worse, they learned that because they didn’t
have a termite rider on their homeowner’s insurance, their
policy does not cover any of the paid-off home where they
had planned to spend their golden years. The entire home
had to be demolished. What would they do? Where would
they live?
“I’m 65 and got to start over?” wondered Roger Bennett.
“This is unbelievable.” Their pastor, the Rev. Matt Bishop,
told their friends at Maynard Baptist Church about the situ
ation the next Sunday. That’s when the Bennetts found out
they were not alone. Church friends helped them pack their
belongings and donated a big container for them so they
could get out for the demolition. Other friends donated
See HOME . Page 4A
BOE debates, but won’t take
stand on Critical Race Theory
By Will Davis
publisher@mymcrnet
Monroe County school superinten
dent Mike Hickman told school board
members on Tuesday he doesn’t neces
sarily jeehaw with a statement promot
ing Critical Race Theory (CRT) from
a school leadership group the schools
have paid for training. Several school
board members warned against the
ideology but after a 30-minute debate,
the board didn’t have a majority to take
any stands against CRT.
Board member Eva Bilderback put
the issue on the agenda after a 2018
“equity commitment” from the Georgia
Leadership Institute for School Im
provement (GLISI) was reported upon
in this newspaper.
Monroe County schools spent
$27,500 with GLISI in 2019-20 to train
future leaders. The GLISI commitment
declared that “anti-racism” was the
No. 1 problem in all schools and that
it would “confront” and “dismantle”
systems that perpetuated such racism.
Hickman said he had never seen the
GLISI equity commitment until board
member Stuart Pippin showed it to
him. He said he was surprised at some
of the things in it. He said he shared his
concerns with the executive director
of GLISI on Tuesday before the BOE
See RACE • Page 7A
Wife
reports
DUI as
husband
stuck on
tracks
A Macon man got a DUI
after his wife called 911 to
report her husband was
drunk, had been at Wagers
bar and had gotten his truck
stuck on the railroad tracks
in Bolingbroke in the early
morning hours of May 30.
Chris
topher
Jason
Yates,
43, of
Macon,
was
charged
with
DUI
after
Monroe
County
deputies found him stuck on
the tracks at Klopfer Road
around 6 a.m. on May 30.
Here’s what happened
according to the report: after
the man’s wife called 911,
Cpl. Thomas Haskins found
Yates’ gold 2003 Dodge Ram
partially driven up onto the
railroad tracks while he was
spinning wheels, trying to
get unstuck. Haskins asked
Yates what happened, and
he replied, “Nothing” and
repeated several times, “my
wife is coming to get me.”
While he was speaking, his
speech was heavily slurred,
and his eyes were red and
glossy. Yates was also vap-
ing while speaking to the
corporal.
Haskins asked him to exit
the pickup, but Yates an
swered, “I prefer not to’! He
continued to repeat himself
several times and refused to
exit the vehicle. Haskins told
him that he was being given
a lawful order to exit the
vehicle, to which he finally
complied. When Haskins
said he wanted to do a
sobriety test, Yates refused
numerous times, asking,
“why would I give it to you?”
When Haskins asked him
how he managed to drive
onto the railroad tracks he
said, “it happened”.
The corporal told Yates that
his wife called the Sheriff’s
Office and told them that he
was intoxicated, and that his
See DUI • Page 6A