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The
Commerce News
FEBRUARY 18, 2009
PAGE 6A
On The R ecord
City Police Make 21 Arrests
In Routine But Busy Week
DUI, Other Charges Pending
Two people were injured, one seriously, in a two-vehicle accident Monday
afternoon at the intersection of U.S. 441 and Hwy. 334. According to a
Commerce Police Department report, the driver of a Dodge Dakota pickup
truck turned off U.S. 441 toward Ingles into the path of a Ford Explorer,
which struck the pickup. The driver was airlifted to Grady Memorial Hospital.
According to the report, the passenger admitted to police that he and the
driver had consumed several beers prior to the accident. Charges pending
against the driver include driving under the influence (DUI) of intoxicants,
driving with a suspended license, violation of the open container law and
failure to yield right of way. The driver of the Explorer declined medical
treatment.
Commerce Police Search For
Suspect In Burglary At Presto's
It was a busy if some
what routine past week
for the Commerce Police
Department, as officers
recorded 21 arrests.
The most serious case was
that of Seidina Jean Scroggs,
26, 3332 Blacks Creek
Church Road, Commerce,
who was charged with
violation of the Georgia
Controlled Substances Act,
misdemeanor possession of
marijuana and possession
of tools for the commission
of a crime.
Those charges came after
an officer on Steve Reynolds
Industrial Boulevard saw
her car parked in the empty
parking lot of the Rooker
building. When he pulled
in to check the vehicle
out, Scroggs drove around
the building, so the officer
pulled her over.
She was “just turning
around," the officer quoted
Scroggs as explaining.
The report indicated that
she seemed extremely ner
vous, and he recognized her
from previous dealings.
A search allegedly turned
up an eyeglass case and
two plastic bags containing
marijuana, a glass pipe with
residue of cocaine, a Dr.
Pepper can modified into
a device for smoking crack
cocaine, and some unidenti
fied brown pills. The report
also noted that she had two
outstanding warrants from
Jackson County.
Others arrested or cited
during the past week
include:
•Crystal Dawn Manus,
28, 221 College Ave.,
Commerce, driving under
the influence (DUI) of
drugs and driving without a
license on her person.
•Kyle Stevens Hay, 22,
352 Fourth St„ NE, Atlanta,
driving too fast for condi
tions, driving with a sus
pended license and a war
rant from Baldwin. The
report indicated that Hay
had licenses from Georgia
and North Carolina — both
suspended.
•Linda Aguire, 29,
935 Homer Rd., Lot 54,
Commerce, driving without
a license and driving with
out using headlights.
•David Lamar Gee, 40,
190 Short Seagraves Rd.,
Commerce, loitering or
prowling after he refused to
leave a Homer Street restau
rant where he’d thrown up
in the bathroom.
• Daniel Salinas-Chavez,
20, 621 Henry Ave., Lee
High Acres, LL, driving
without a license.
•Robbie Lee Willis, 37,
125 Willoughby Homes,
Commerce, disorderly
conduct after he allegedly
threatened to beat up a
child.
•Dicky Lanier Johnson,
39, 880 Lavender Rd.,
Jefferson, driving while unli
censed .
•Douglas Eugene
Hardman, 38,160 Sayemore
Dr., Athens, loitering
or prowling after he was
found under a tarpaulin at
the intersection of Martin
Luther King Jr. Drive and E.
Cordes Place at 1:00 in the
morning.
•Orlando P. Niles, 37,
68 Park St., Commerce,
arrested at his residence on
two probation violation war
rants.
• Chatward Earl Anderson,
21, 243 Windy Hill Way,
Athens, driving with a sus
pended license.
•Elisa Elizabeth Angel,
35, 571 Borders Rd„
Commerce, picked up from
Madison County on a fail
ure to appear warrant.
•Joseph J. Sorrow, 21,
P.O. Box 408, Danielsville,
picked up on a Madison
County warrant.
•Justin Michael Gowan,
19, 1700 Sorrow Patterson
Rd., Colbert, underage con
sumption of alcohol.
•Kristy Martin Page, 27,
148 J.T. Elrod Dr„ Athens,
driving with a suspend
ed license (for failure to
appear).
•John Wesley Irwin, 32,
96 Layla Lane, Watkinsville,
arrested on an unspecified
warrant from Winder.
•Stephen Anthony Paul
Weathers, 22, no address
provided, simple assault
under the Lamily Violence
Act after he allegedly hit his
mother. The report noted
that he’d hit his sister the
day before and was on pro
bation in Banks County on
similar charges.
•William Dale Gray, 37,
285 Pox Rd., Carnesville,
DUI, driving with a sus
pended license, violation of
the open container law, fail
ure to maintain a lane, fail
ure to change his address
and a tire violation. He was
stopped for a tag violation.
A passenger, Christopher
M. Gifford, 24, 239 Dan
Waters Road, Commerce,
was charged with violation
of the open container law.
•Thomas Joshua
Brown, 30, 253 Barber St.,
Commerce, driving with a
suspended license, a tail-
light violation and warrants
from Hall and Jackson coun
ties. A passenger, Hoodie
Trampus Howington, 31,
of 2636 Jefferson Rd., was
arrested on a Jackson
County warrant.
Police have a footprint,
fingerprints and video
of a man who broke into
Presto’s convenience store,
North Broad Street, but the
suspect remains at large.
Commerce police
responded to the store’s
security system at 2:06 a.m.
Priday, Peb. 13, and found
the front door broken out
and a concrete statue of a
bulldog nearby.
Upon viewing the video
from the store’s security
system, police saw a white
male whose face was cov
ered with a black shirt,
break the glass in the door
with the statue, enter, jump
over the counter, go through
the cash registers and leave
by the same door.
The report did not indi
cate whether he actually
stole anything.
Police were able to lift
a footprint off the coun
ter and some fingerprints.
They also recovered the
shirt the man had used to
cover his face.
In another incident,
police investigated a case
of criminal trespass in
which a 32-year-old white
male flagged an officer
down, showed him a bro
ken windshield and said
his girlfriend smashed it
during an argument.
Police picked up the
woman, who said the two
had argued over his ex-girl-
friend and whether the vic
tim wanted to be reunited
with the ex. She admitted
breaking the windshield,
but said it was an accident
— she was trying to kick the
dashboard.
Always Wanted Your Own Police
Car? Commerce Has Four For Sale
—14 Departments Respond To Fire
Cont. from Page 1A
was, firemen from West
Jackson and Banks County
manned Commerce’s sta
tion for that same reason
the tankers filled as fast as
they were needed.
Huber opened its fire
reservoir and pumping sta
tion, which serviced three
Other agencies like
EMS, the Jackson County
Sheriff’s Office and
the Georgia Porestry
Commission also
If you’ve always wanted
to own a police car, now’s
your chance.
The city of Commerce
has listed five former
police cars among 15 items
of surplus equipment that
will be sold to the highest
bidder.
while the Commerce fire
men engaged the blaze.
Madison County
fire departments from
Pocataligo, Ila and Neese-
Sanford brought men and
tankers.
The fire was a half mile
from the nearest fire
hydrant, located at the
entrance to Huber, but it
was not sufficient to keep
trucks at one time.
“They’ve got a pumping
station that drafts out of
a lake. They were really
flowing us some water,"
Whitfield commented.
“They helped us a lot." He
said the blaze required
approximately 150,000 gal
lons of water, some 108,000
of which were provided by
Huber.
Banks-Jackson Risk Reduction
DUI SCHOOL
706-336-6777
DEFENSIVE DRIVING
1728 North Broad Street, Commerce, State Certified 5010 and 2007
Next DUI Class begins on February 21,2009
Next Defensive Driving Class will be held on February 28,2009
Dine with friends in a warm environment at
Sarah’s : a family-operated restaurant featuring
delicious home-cooked meals & daily specials!
6 Homer St. 706-652-0070
On the Jackson/Banks County line in Maysville
I-85N exit 147, Commerce/Maysville exit, left onto 98,
4 miles into Maysville, right over railroad tracks.
responded. The forestry
unit doused some small
woods fires started by the
blaze, Whitfield said, and
patrolled the surrounding
woods to make sure others
did not ignite.
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St. Catherine Laboure
Catholic Mission
Mass Schedule: Sat. 4:00 p.m., Sun. 11:00 a.m.,
Wed. 12:10 p.m.
Parish Council meetings: 2nd Sunday of the month
after 11:00 mass
Ash Wed. Mass at 12:10 p.m. and
Communion Service at 7:00 p.m.
First Friday Adoration 9 a.m. - 7 p.m.
Website: www.stcatherinelabourega.org
706-335-2622 Pd.02/09
Georgia Real Estate Investors
Association, Inc. - Athens
Meets the third Thursday each month
6:30 pm at the UGA Conferen ce Center
1197 South Lumpkin Street,
Athens, GA 30601
Tom Hewlett - Chapter President
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BANKS COUNTY
HISTORICAL SOCIETY, INC.
meets first Monday each month
7:00 p.m. in the Banks Co. Historial
Courthouse at 105 U.S. Hwy. 441
North in Homer pd.-07/09
Citizens Organized for
Pipeline Safety
investigating the health risks to citizens from
underground pipelines and booster stations in
Madison Co. Meetings 6:30 p.m. at the Colbert
Grove Baptist Church the 2nd Thurs. of each
month. 706-783-4702. Pd.04/09
JEFFERSON
ip AMERICAN LEGION
Albert Gordon Post 56
Each 3rd Tuesday, 7:30 p.m.
Harvie Lance, Commander
Phone (706) 654-1274 3io
White Plains Baptist Church Pd 02/09
Faith Bible Class meets every Sunday morning
at 10:00 a.m. It is a place where strangers
become friends and friends become family.
706-367-5650
White Plains Baptist Church
3650 Hwy. 124 West, Jefferson, GA 30549
The Jackson Co. Republican Party
Would like you to meet us for
breakfast the second Sat. of each
month, 8:00 at The Jefferson
House. For more information, call
706-652-2967 or email
fishyglass@yahoo.com w.ii/08
BANKS COUNTY
fj§ AMERICAN LEGION
Post 215
Meets each 3rd Thursday, 7 p.m.
In Homer, GA at the
American Legion Building on
Historic Highway 441 Pd.06/09
HI VETERANS OF
IP FOREIGN WARS
Post 4872, Hurricane Shoals Convention Ctr.
Each 4th Tuesdasy, 7:00 p.m.
Lamar Langston, Commander
Phone 706-652-2627 res
JEFFERSON EIONS CEUB
Meets 2nd & 4th Monday
Jefferson City Clubhouse
6:30 p.m.-(706) 387-1156
Mack Cates, President
542
A UNITY LODGE
F & A.M.
No. 36, Jefferson, GA
1st Tuesday of each month, 7:30 p.m.
Dwayne Potts • 706-367-4449
Borders St. behind Tabo’s 260
JEFFERSON ROTARY CLUB
Meets Tuesdays
Jefferson City Clubhouse
12:30 p.m. *(706) 367-7696
Gina Mitsdarffer, President
547
But beware, two of the
CLASSIFIED
DEADLINE
NOON ON
MONDAYS
cars (all of which are Lord
Crown Victoria sedans)
have been wrecked and
don’t run.
Other items that will
go on sale include three
pickup trucks, 45 window
panes from City Hall, an
upright piano, an air condi
tioner, a power borer and
three time clocks.
The city council the sale
of the items Monday night.
The city will open sealed
bids Tuesday, March 3, at 2
p.m. at City Hall.
The surplus items can
be viewed at the Public
Works Department, 390
Waterworks Road.
City of Commerce
NOTICE TO THE PUBLIC
The City of Commerce has the below listed surplus
property. The items may be viewed at the Public Works
Department, 390 Waterworks Road. You may call 706-
335-9262 to contact Mr. Rick Lewis, Public Works
Director. The property will be sold to the highest bidder.
Crown Vic V1N#2FAFP71W15X123015
Wrecked - Sell for Parts
Crown Vic V1N#2FAFP71W8YX205523
Wrecked - Sell for Parts
S-10 VlN#lGCCS14ZOMO 167387
S-10 V1N#1GCCS142XM0167879
F-350 V1N#1FDJF37GXMNA33728
Sign Truck
97 Crown Vic V1N#2FALP71WOVX207801
98 Crown Vic V1N#2FAEP71W4WX148833
98 Crown Vic V1N#2FAFP71WXWX126867
45 - Window Panes from City Hall
Upright Piano
Ingersoll Rand 175 Air Compressor (SN: 136091U83953)
54HP Diesel Engine
Power Stinger Boring Machine Model BSBD (SN: 1290)
18HP Briggs & Stratton Motor
Simplex 100 Time Clock
Lathem 1000E Time Clock
Simplex Consecutive Time Clock
You may submit a sealed bid to Shirley Willis, City Clerk,
City of Commerce, P. O. Box 348, Commerce, Georgia
30529. Please mark your envelope as a “Surplus
Property Bid”.
The bids will be opened on Tuesday, March 3, 2009 at
2:00 P.M. in the City Hall Conference Room, 27 Sycamore
Street.