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BOGUS $lO BILL TURNS UP IN SUMMERVILLE BUSINESS
Third Different Instance Of Counterfeit Money Found Here
Is Counterfeiting Bigger
Problem In Chattooga?
The return of a Secret Ser
vice agent to Summerville might
indicate that Chattooga County
has a bigger problem with circu
lating counterfeit money than
originally thought, said Detective
Terry Williamson of the Sum
merville Police Department.
A $lO counterfeit bill was
passed late last week at the CVS
Pharmacy in the Wal-Mart
Shopping Center. Although a
major counterfeiting ring was
broken up two weeks ago, Det.
Williamson said he does not
think the newly discovered $lO
bill is connected with that first
operation.
“It doesn’'t match the last
batch of money we got the other
day,” Williamson said.
ANOTHER RING?
Police officials recently dis
covered a counterfeiting opera
tion at a Summerville Gardens
Apartment. More than $6,000
worth of counterfeit money was
produced and released into the
area’s economy, lawmen said
then.
“It doesn’tlook like it’s con
nected,” Williamson said of the
bill passed at CVS. “There is no
case yet and no ideas of who
passed it.”
CVS manager Ron Fisher
reported to police that a cashier
had received a counterfeit bill.
The bogus bill was not discov
ered until later that day. The
identity of the person passing the
fake $lO remaines obscure
Wednesday morning.
MORE MONEY
Police officials said they
don’t know exactly how mucg
counterfeit money is circulating
inthe local economy. Williamson
said Wednesday morning that
the Secret Service has been in
vestigating counterfeit bills dis
covered by some banks in Floyd
County. They might be con
nected with the counterfeiting
ring that was halted two weeks
ago, he said.
OTHER AREAS
The first counterfeiting ring
netted Robert Sweet, 25, who
was arrested Feb. 1. on seven
counts of first degree forgery and
Angela Sutton, 27, arrested on
four counts of first degree forg
ery. Both lived in a Summervifie
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Gardens apartment.
They were allegedly respon
sible for counterfeit money being
passed across the region. That
includes Floyd, Walker and Ca
toosa counties and parts of Ala
bama. Williamson said he be
lieves part of the money mi%?t
have been passed at the
Collinsville Trade Day.
“Itlooks like the money was
spent all over the region,” Det.
Williamson said.
®
Extension
Offers Two
Programs
By NORMAN EDWARDS
County Agent
Whether you are interested
in getting the top dollar for g'our
agricultural product or need ad
vice on planning your estate, you
may want to attend one of two
upcoming programs. The Geor
gia Extension Service will be con
ucting programs dealing with
both of these topics in early
March for residents of North
west Geo;‘lgia.
The first program “Execu
tive Marketing ProEram for
Georiia Farmers” will be held on
March Bin Calhoun. Agricultural
economists from the University
of Georgia will present a pro
gram focusing on the options lo
cal farmers have whether they
are selling grain or livestock. The
program is set to begin at 8:45
a.m.and end at4:ls p.m. To sign
up and get information about the
location, call the Chattooga
Coumg' Extension Service at 857-
0744 by Friday, March 3. There
is no charge for the program.
The second program is de
signed to answer many of the
questions you have about wills
and estate planning. Dr. Ester
Maddox, Extension Financial
Management Specialist, with the
Georgia Extension Service will be
the speaker at the program. It is
set for Monday, March 13 at the
Walker County Civic Center be
ginning at 7 p.m. As with the
other program there is no
charge. Please call us at 857-
0744 to register by Friday,
March 10.
Both programs are area
wide workshops for interested
individuals in the Northwest
Georgia area.
LIFE IS SHORT
Even under ideal stc;:ée
conditions, some vegetable s
have a fairly short life, say ex
perts with the University of
Georgia Extension Service.
These probably will not be good
one or two years after you buy
them. They include sweet corn,
onion, okra, bean and parsnip.
The police officials who
raided Sweet and Sutton’s Sum
merville Gardens Apartments
said they found counterfeit bills
and computer equipment to
make illegal currency, according
to Det. Williamson.
Det. Williamson says the
two were allegedly makingbcoun
terfeit $lO S2O and SIOO bills.
The investifiation began on
Jan. 17, when the initial report
was made to the police depart
ment. At about the same time,
local business owners began re
porting illegal money being
passed at their stores.
WARRANT
Although police said they
were receiving information that
illeial bills were being passed, it
took about two weeks to get
enouEh evidence to obtain a
search warrant. It was the end of
January when Det. Williamson
said Chattooga Magistrate Judge
Tracy Maddux issued a search
warrant.
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Clerk’s Office Has Computer
To Search For State’s Liens
An Internet website that can
be used to check on possible liens
against any property statewide
went online recently at the office
of the Chattooga County Clerk of
Court.
The clerk’s office received
nine free Gateway computers in
1999. These new comcputers were
desifined to keep Clerk Lann
Cordle’s office up to date with a
1993 law passed by the Georgia
General Assembly.
SCCCA
The six-year-old law created
the Georgia Superior Court
Clerks’ Cooperative Authority
(SCCCA). State legislators
wanted the SCCCA to implement
the computerized indexing of all
Fjro;f)erty liens. It is called the
niform Commercial Code.
Cordle said he heard about
the free computers that the Au
thority provides and decided to
place an order. The SCCCA told
Cordle to order as many as he
needed at no cost to his office or
the county.
FEES
The SCCCA obtains its fund
ing from fees on filed deeds. Be
fore the 1993 legislation it cost $5
to file a one-page deed. Since
then, an additional $5 was added
to start the SCCCA system,
Cordle said.
“Until we made these forms
available online, anyone needing
to file had to find a vendor who
carried the approved forms and
then purchase the forms, usual:f'
in a large quantity,” Cordle said.
“Not only 1s there a cost savings
to the public, but accessibility
has been greatly enhanced by
offering the forms online.”
The indexing service is
geared to save money for those
checking for liens. Before 1993,
a Ferson wanting statewide no
tification on their lien would file
a UCC-1 financing paper in each
of Georgia’s 159 counties. That
cost more than $795, according
to the SCCCA.
Once the SCCCA got the in-
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dexing system working on Jan.
1, 1995, only one finance form
has to be filed at a charge of $lO.
Once the UCC document is
filed, the clerk of court has 24
hours in which to transmit the
document. The Authority has
another 24 hours in which to add
that filing to the statewide index,
according to the SCCCA.
The offering of online UCC
forms is just the most recent up-
IRS, State Van Planned For
Summerville This Monday
The Internal Revenue
Service's (IRS) “We're On
Wheels” (WOW) van will be in
Summerville on Monday to help
Chattooga Countians with their
federal and state income tax re
turns, the IRS has announced.
The WOW van, staffed with
IRS and Georfiia Department of
Revenue employees, will be at
the Chattooga County Civic Cen
ter, Ga. 48 at Martin Street, from
2 p.m. until 7 p.m. on Mondag'.
No fee will be charged for
any of the services.
Federal employees will {)ro
vide federal forms and publica
tions, answer tax questions and
prepare the following returns:
1040EZ, 1040 A and simple
1040 s (no business income,
rental property or capital gains),
said Jim Igonelson, YRS gistrict
director, Atlanta.
State employees will provide
state income tax forms and pre
pare simple returns, he said.
Free electronic tax form fil
ing will be offered through the
WOW van.
The van visited 32 cities in
1999 and that number has been
increased to 56 this year,
Donelson said. About 2,000 resi
dents used the service last year,
he added.
The van will be at the Bank
of LaFayette Community Room
today (Feb. 24) and at Cedart-
grade to the Clerk’s office. In the
past year, new, faster and more
reliable computer ec‘l;ipment has
been installed for public use. Citi
zens can now access the UCCand
real estate deed statewide in
dexes without charge by usinfi
one of the public access searc
terminals at the clerk’s office.
A s¥stem to record real and
gersona property records is also
eing developed.
own at the First National Bank
of Polk County next Tuesday.
Services will be provided from 2
p.m. to 7 p.m. at each of those
nearby sites, too.
Trion Schools
Registration
Set March 17
The Trion City School sys
tem will enroll students for the
2000-2001 pre-kindergarten
school year from 1 p.m.to 5 p.m.
on Friday, March 17, officials
announced.
To be accepted, they said, a
child must be 4 by Sept. 1 of this
year. Space for 80 4-year-old stu
dents will be available. The
youngsters don’t have to reside
within the town’s limits to be
considered.
Pre-kindergarten classes
will follow the same school cal
endar as grades kinde;garten
through five, officials added.
School officials said parents
of the children must provide the
following when registering; cer
tified copy of the child’s birth
certificate, copy of the immuni
zation certificate, copg of the So
cial Security card and a copy of
the eye, ear and dental examina
tions.
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