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THE BANKS COUNTY NEWS
WEDNESDAY, MAY 28, 2008
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Crime/Fires/Wrecks
Arrests
Sheriff's office reports 18 arrests
Eight receive sentences in Superior Court
T he Banks County Sheriff’s
Office reported 18 arrests
last week, including:
•Lynsey Samantha Banister, 19,
Scales Creek Road, Homer, posses
sion of marijuana and possession of
alcohol by a minor.
•Anthony Paul Brown, 29, 3291
Hwy. 98 West, Daniesville, laying
drags and DUI.
•Timothy Michael Chambers, 17,
3436 Old Hwy. 441 North, Alto,
possession of marijuana.
•Daniel Levi Garrett, 27, 6727 Old
Cornelia Hwy., Lula, seat belt viola
tion and open container of alcohol.
•Richard Manuel Gonzales, 21,
4122 Crossing Place, Commerce,
illegal possession of a controlled
substance.
Accident Reports
The Banks County Sheriff’s
Office responded to the follow
ing vehicle-related accidents in the
county in recent weeks:
•two-vehicle accident on Hwy.
15.
•one-vehicle accident on Hwy.
51 South at the intersection of
Garrison Shoals Road.
•two-vehicle accident on
Frontage Road at the intersection
of Hwy. 15.
•two-vehicle accident on Steven
B. Tanger Boulevard at Shane’s
Rib Shack.
•two-vehicle accident on Hwy.
441 at Wal-Mart.
•two-vehicle accident on Scales
Creek Road at the intersection of
Historic Homer Highway.
The Georgia Bureau of
Investigation maintains a list of
registered sex offenders on its
website (www.ganet.org/gbi).
The GBI is the central reposi
tory for Georgia’s Violent Sexual
Offender Registry. The registry
contains information about sex
offenders who have been released
from prison, placed on probation,
parole or supervised released after
July 1, 1996. The website contains
a search form where offenders
may be located based on name,
city, zip code or county.
For each offender, the website
details the offender’s address,
physical description, age, date of
conviction and crime. Most of the
offenders also have photos avail
able.
By state law, a sex offender
will be notified by the Georgia
Department of Corrections, the
Georgia Board of Pardons &
Paroles, and/or private probation
agencies that they must register as
a sex offender with a sheriff and
their county of residence, county
of employment and county where
they are attending school.
Sexual offenders will remain on
the registry for a period of 10 years
and will receive a verification form
each year on the anniversary of
their initial registration. Sexual
predators are required to verify
their information every 90 days
and remain on the registry for life.
As of July 1, 1999, sexual offend-
•Glen Charles Mansur, 20, 151
Trout Lane, Commerce, possession
of marijuana and possession of alco
hol by a minor.
•Chuck Medley, 53, 423 Chambers
Road, Commerce, no tag, a no proof
of insurance and theft by taking.
•Gary Kenneth Moulder, 35, 261
Ridge Lane, Lula, DUI.
•Patonya Lois Nation, 32, 121
Roxie Hill Lane, Cornelia, battery.
•James Kevin Obrian, 43, 8568
Hollywood Hwy., Clarkesville, no
proof of insurance, weaving over
road, speeding and DUI.
•Othon Delgadio Ramos, 26, 104
Fieldmore Circle, Simpsonville,
driving without a license and weav
ing over road.
•Arthur Joseph Remillard, 49,
•one-vehicle accident on West
Ridgeway Road.
•one-vehicle accident on Apple
Pie Ridge Road.
•one-vehicle accident on I-85
South.
•two-vehicle accident at Homer
Post Office.
•two-vehicle accident on I-85.
•one-vehicle accident on Historic
Homer Highway.
•two-vehicle accident on Steven
B. Tanger Boulevard at the inter
section of Hwy. 15 South.
•hit-and-run in area of Hwy. 15
and Industrial Park Boulevard.
•two-vehicle accident on Steven
B. Tanger Boulevard in the Ryan’s
parking lot.
•two-vehicle accident on Tanger
ers who have more than one prior
conviction for an offense listed by
state law - or who have been con
victed of an aggravated offense,
such as aggravated child molesta
tion - will remain on the registry
for life and will receive a verifica
tion form each year on the anniver
sary of their initial registration.
If the offender is enrolled,
employed or carries on a vocation
at an institution of higher education
in Georgia, they are required to
provide the name, school address
or enrollment status. Offenders
who move to another state are
required to report to the sheriff’s
office where they last registered
with in the state, and to designate
a law enforcement agency in their
new state of residence.
Offenders who move to another
county in Georgia, are required
to register with the sheriff of their
new county of residence in addi
tion to notifying the sheriff of their
previous county of residence.
OFFENSES
Offenders placed on proba
tion, parole or supervised release
from prison after July 1, 1996,
are required to register for the
following offenses: rape, sodomy
(against a minor), aggravated sod
omy (against a minor or an adult),
statutory rape (unless the age of
the perpetrator is 18 years of age or
younger), child molestation, aggra
vated child molestation, enticing a
child for indecent purposes and
4433 Circassian Place, Gainesville,
deposit account fraud.
•Amy Elisabeth Russell, 26, 340
Ridgeway Road, Braselton, failure
to appear.
•Gerrardo Sandoval, 24, 137
Faulkner Drive, Commerce, driving
without a license and speeding.
•Nikia Maria Simmons, 21, 3800
Old State Road, Talmo, theft by
shoplifting.
•Tobie Doyle Stiwinter, 29, 448
Pleasant Acres Drive, Maysville,
probation violation.
•James Williamson, 59, Jackson
Hill Road, Commerce, failure to
appear.
•William Joseph Woods, 33, 4426
18th Place, Phoenix, Ariz., window
violation and defective tires.
Drive at Nova Cinemas.
•two-vehicle accident on Hwy.
441 at Taco Bell.
•two-vehicle accident on
McDonald Circle.
•two-vehicle accident on Hwy.
51 South.
•two-vehicle accident on Historic
Homer Highway at the intersection
of Hwy. 15 South.
•one-vehicle accident on Hwy.
184.
•one-vehicle accident at TA
Truckstop.
•three-vehicle accident on Hwy.
15.
•two-vehicle accident at Sonny’s
Barbecue.
•assisted GSP with traffic fol
lowing accident on Hwy. 198.
aggravated sexual battery.
Other offenses include: kid
napping of a minor (except by a
parent), false imprisonment of a
minor (except by a parent), crimi
nal sexual conduct toward a minor,
solicitation of a minor to engage
in sexual contact, use of a minor
in sexual performance, solicita
tion of a minor to practice pros
titution, any conviction resulting
from an underlying sexual offense
against a victim who is a minor,
use of a minor to engage in any
sexually-explicit conduct to pro
duce any visual medium depicting
such conduct; creating, publishing,
selling or distributing any mate
rial depicting a minor engaged in
sexually-explicit conduct; trans
mitting, making, selling, buying
or disseminating by means of a
computer any descriptive or iden
tifying information regarding a
child for the purpose of offering
or soliciting sexual conduct of or
with a child or the visual depict
ing such conduct; and any conduct
which, by its nature, is a sexual
offense against a minor.
Eight people were sentenced in
recent Superior Court proceedings
in Banks County:
•Makisha Angel, theft by shoplift
ing, 12 months probation, 40 hours
of community service, $250 fine and
banished from Wal-Mart.
•Jeffery Sparks, possession of
cocaine, 10 years in jail.
•Michael Shannon Angel, disor-
Incidents reported
to sheriff's office
Incidents reported to the Banks
County Sheriff’s Office last week
include the following:
•a Baldwin woman was driving on
Hwy. 105 when she struck a donkey
in the road.
•a Baldwin woman said her car tag
is missing.
•burglar alarm at a Rock Springs
Road, Baldwin, residence. No one
was found at the home and nothing
was missing.
•a burglar alarm was accidentally
set off at a Damascus Road, Homer,
residence.
•horse in the road at a Hwy. 63
location.
•shots fired at a Lakeview Drive,
Baldwin, address.
•trespassing at a Hwy. 51 South,
Lula, location.
•a Patton Road, Commerce,
woman said she heard someone in
her home. When she checked it out,
she didn’t find anyone but she heard
a car leaving the driveway.
•suspicious vehicle at a Hwy. 63
location.
•suspicious person at a Hwy. 441
residence.
•ATV in roadway on Alexander
Road.
•stalking at a Hwy. 51 North,
Homer, address.
•child molestation at a Maysville
location.
•a man said someone tried to pur
chase a vehicle from him with a
stolen check.
•burglary at a Railroad Avenue
residence.
•fork lift attachments taken from an
Old Hwy. 441, Baldwin, address.
•a Dailey Road man said he saw
someone strike his son.
•child abuse at a Commerce
address.
•vehicle damaged at a Banks
Crossing parking lot.
•verbal dispute at a Loggins Road
residence.
•harassment at a Tanger Drive
address.
•hit and run accident at a Silver
Shoals Road location.
•a Gainesville man said he wrecked
after hitting a big rock on the side of
the road.
•threatening phone calls at a
Samples Scales Road, Homer, resi
dence.
•a Tipton Drive, Alto, woman
said a bulldog attacked her dog and
killed her kitten.
Correction
In last week’s issue, it was incor
rectly reported that Casondra
Roberts, who was charged with pos
session of methamphetamine, was
sentenced to serve three years in jail
and given a $1,500 fine. That was
an error. It should have read that she
was sentenced to serve three years
probation and given a $1,500 fine.
derly conduct, 12 months probation,
no contact with the victim and $500
fine.
•Buddy Boyd Shaver, simple
battery and criminal trespass, 12
months probation, no violent contact
with victim and $250 fine.
•Nancy Wilson, theft by taking,
12 months probation, $500 fine and
$3,000 restitution.
•Jim Tom Atkinson, theft by tak
ing, 12 months probation and $250
fine.
•Jeffery Scott Watson, criminal
trespass, 12 months probation and
$500 fine.
•Cloris Antonius Wise, possession
of marijuana and speeding, sen
tenced to 12 months probation and
$750 fine.
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DUI SCHOOL
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Next DUI Class begins on June 14, 2008
Next Defensive Driving Class will be held on May 31,2008
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Vehicle-related accidents responded to in county
Statewide List
Sex offenders list now available on GBI website