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Newspaper Page TextPAGE 8A THE BANKS COUNTY NEWS • THE COMMERCE NEWS WEDNESDAY, DECEMBER 28, 2016 lackson County Sheriffs Office incidents - North and East zones Old Navy employee under investigation for theft An employee at the Old Navy Store at the Tanger Out lets can expect an encounter with a Jackson County deputy. A deputy responded to a report of shoplifting at the Old Navy store. The loss preven tion manager was investigating a store employee and said he witnessed her checking out two woman and not charging them for all of the items. The manager confronted the shoppers, whose receipt showed only two items paid for, but several items were in the bags. Both admitted knowing that the employee did not charge them for each item and said they’d done the same thing three or four times since October. The loss prevention man ager said the employee has done the same thing with oth ers, and the store’s loss was close to $5,000. He indicated that the store will prosecute the employee. Other matters requiring a response from JCSO deputies during the past week in the northern and eastern zones include: Commerce Area • a missing juvenile at a Mill stone Drive residence. The complainant said she was not sure when she needed to pick up her daughter from her job at the Tanger Outlets, so she called the manager just before 5 p.m. and learned that her daughter had quit her job and left the store two hours earlier. The complainant worried that she was with a man who had been arrested and charged with having explicit photos of the girl on his phone. The complainant later picked up her daughter at the outlets, and the girl told the depu ty that she’d been with the man her mother had warned about, but all they did was ride around for three hours. •a suspicious vehicle on Boogie’s Run where a deputy on patrol early in the morn ing found a vehicle with an open door. The owner said he thought his daughter left it open when she went out to the vehicle the evening before. •theft by taking at East Jackson Comprehensive High School (EJCHS) where a stu dent said someone stole $100 in cash from her book bag that was in a gym locker room. Surveillance showed several people entering and leaving the room after the victim, but no one trying to lock the room. • a dispute on Gober Road where a woman said her hus band accused her of being “pilled up” when she was not. The woman reported that this has been going on for years and asked the deputy what to do. He told her if she was unhappy in her marriage to talk to an attorney. •a dispute at a Hwy. 334 address between a man and a drunk woman over a letter the woman wrote about wanting to hurt herself. The woman denied wanting to hurt herself. She reported that the man is a “drug lord.” • harassing phone calls and threats via computer report ed by an EJCHS student that made reference to shooting the victim and her boyfriend. The offender was lectured about the conversation and was searched for weapons. •theft by deception at an unspecified location where a man paid someone $2,000 for the right to take tin and truss es from a chicken house that turned out not to belong to the seller, who did not return any calls from the victim seeking his money back. • theft by taking at The Gap store at the Tanger outlets where two black females and a black male stole 11 units of girls’ clothing with a total value of $360. Store officials believe the same three hit the Daw- sonville store earlier that day. •damage to a patrol car when a deputy backing out of a driveway shuck a stone wall. •a wrong-way driver on U.S. 441 who thought he was in Loganville and had left a dialysis treatment heading home in Newton County. EMS transported him to an Athens hospital. Maysville Area • recovery of an aban doned vehicle from a Mays ville Road address. The officer provided the complainant with the name of a business that had dealings with the vehi cle’s owner. • suspicious activity on Red Oak Lane where the com plainant said a man pulled a truck into her yard, got out and looked around and, when confronted, stumbled over his words and talking about yard maintenance. He asked how many people lived there and what they did. The next day the complainant heard voices that sounded like the same man and when she went out side, she could hear voices behind the residence. When she shined a flashlight, she heard people running away. The deputy recognized the description of the suspect as fitting a man who lives nearby. • a custody dispute at a Hill side Way address where the complainant and her fiance have guardianship over the children of his brother and the brother’s girlfriend’s two children. The brother threat ened to remove the children; the deputy ordered them to comply with the court order. • a welfare check on Unity Church Road in regard to a 7-year-old boy. The com plainant said the mother uses drugs, but the deputy saw no evidence of drug use, the boy was fine and other family members were present. The boy’s mother said the com plainant — her ex husband — was trying “to get back at me.” •suspicious activity on Old Ginn Road where the com plainant said a male made threats to kill him because he (the complainant) worked with the Drug Enforcement Administration and the man was on the complainant’s property. The complainant’s girlfriend said the suspect sent text messages and made threats over the phone. As two deputies continued to inves tigate, they determined that no one was on the property and the complainant “did not believe me as he stated we did not look hard enough and that (the suspect) was waiting in the woods somewhere. (The complainant) continued to state that we thought he was crazy” the deputy wrote in the incident report. • a welfare check on Boone Road on two juveniles who were left there alone. The kids’ mother said she did leave them there while she went to the store, saying she felt they were mature enough. The deputy told her they were too young to be left without adult supervision. •a burglary on Old Miler Road where someone stole two bottles of Lortab from the top of a refrigerator, presents from under the Christmas tree and articles of clothing. A deputy saw signs of forced entry, but noted that a number of Christmas presents, a pis tol and electronics were not taken. •a domestic dispute on Pleasant Acres Drive where the complainant said her juve nile son was cursing and being disorderly. The complainant appeared to be “heavily intox icated.” The boy said he got mad when his mother made statements about his father. The boy said he went out side, cursed and struck a tree. He said the problem was his mother taking her prescription medication with alcohol. Nicholson Area • a dispute at a Kesler Road residence where the com plainant said her granddaugh ter called her a “bitch” and would not fold the clothes. •a suspicious vehicle on New Kings Bridge Road that turned out to be parked well off the road and broken down. •simple battery reported on Summer Lane where the complainant came home from work to find the dead bolt changed so he could not enter. Twenty minutes of knocking later, his wife let him in and began to yell at him, during which he sat in a chair watching TV. She turned it off, got in his faced and pushed him with both hands. The man had his daughter call 911. • a dispute at a Berea Road address where the com plainant said her 15-year-old granddaughter was trying to run away. The juvenile told the deputy she was not running away but wanted to get out of the house due to a dispute between her and her father. • a dispute at a Hwy 334 res idence where the complainant said a woman who had been “criminally trespassed” from the residence was back. The owner of the property who also lived there, and who had deputies issue the criminal trespass warning, told the dep uty he brought the woman over to spend the night. •a dispute between a man and the person he’d hired to do body work on his vehicle eight months earlier. The work was never done and the com plainant said he was having difficulty getting in touch with the man to get his car back. • a dispute between a woman and a man she paid $4,000 to fix her bathroom. He’d promised to get the work done in two weeks, but six weeks later very little was done, and he’d subcontracted the work to a nephew. The woman said she wanted at least some of her money back. • a response to “sever al fires” in a yard on Broad Street. The deputy called the fire department. • a dispute on Peach Street where the complainant heard two other people arguing and called 911. The two denied arguing. •theft by taking on G.W. Wilson Road where a woman said her male roommate became “disrespectful” and she wanted him to move out. He left her at Walmart and when she returned, she found him and his property gone — along with her Xbox control ler, four games and two sets of British coins. • threats reported by a Commerce Road couple from the woman’s ex-boyfriend, who the woman thinks is stalking her. •harassing text messag es reported by a New Kings Bridge Road woman from her ex-boyfriend. The messages contained abusive language and threats to kill the com plainant and her family. The woman received five texts while the deputy was at the scene. • a vehicle abandoned on U.S. 441 at Ed Bennett Road. Huge Inventory Reduction Sale!!! 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City of Commerce SPLOST # 5 Annual Project Reporting Year Ending 2016 Projects Year Approved Original Estimated Cost Current Estimated Cost Year 1 Year 2 Amount Expended Year 3 Year 4 Year 5 Year 6 Amount Expended Current Year Total Expended To Date Project Complete Project Budget Estimated Completion Date Excess Proceeds Recreation 2011 $ 1,118,530 $ 1,315,000 113,707 149,330 18,280 249,275 16,534 26,030 573,156 No $ 1,315,000.00 6/30/2018 - Roads & Bridges 2011 $ 1,118,530 $ 1,600,000 - - 2,220 565,770 886,812 1,454,802 No s 1,600,000.00 6/30/2018 - Water & Sewer 2011 $ 1,830,320 $ 2,050,000 - - - - 99,422 194,678 294,100 No s 2,050,000.00 6/30/2018