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THE BANKS COUNTY NEWS
WEDNESDAY, AUGUST 6, 2008
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Crimes/Court/Wrecks
Arrests
Sheriff's office reports 25 arrests
Domestic
Child custody dispute responded to
T he Banks County Sheriff’s
Office reported the fol
lowing arrests during the
past week:
•Alexander William Beam, 18,
1559 Johnson Road, Atlanta, inter
ference with custody order.
•Kevin Lee Birr, 22, 354 Water
Plant Road, Commerce, driving
without a license and excessive
speeding.
•Angela Ivey Bonds, 41, 465
Garrison Shoals, Lula, burglary.
•Dustin Shawn Bonds, 24, 203
Pine Street, Commerce, probation
violation.
•Philip Ashley Casey, 28, 821
Dodd Road, Commerce, DUI
(drugs) and weaving.
•Billy Joe Bantam Chambers,
21, 177 State Street, Baldwin, DUI
(alcohol), excessive speeding.
•Johnny Ray Collins, 51, 225
Woodland Street, Homer, parole
violation.
•Suzanne Rana Conklin, 32, 169
Primrose Lane, Millford, Penn,
obstruction of a law enforcement
officer.
Accident Reports
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 con
tains information about sex offenders
who have been released from prison,
placed on probation, parole or super
vised 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, physi
cal description, age, date of convic
tion and crime. Most of the offenders
also have photos available.
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 informa
tion every 90 days and remain on the
registry for life.
As of July 1, 1999, sexual offend
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 molestation - will
remain on the registry for life and
will receive a verification form each
year on the anniversary 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 enroll
ment 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 addition to
notifying the sheriff of their previous
county of residence.
•Gabriel Lee Escamillia, 19,5025
Living Road, Flowery Branch,
driving with a suspended license.
•Loretta Graham Escoe, 48, 23
Amberly Drive, Hill, failure to
appear.
•Ricardo Miranda Herandez, 26,
5291 Old Atlanta Road, Hampton,
driving without a license.
•Sheila Ann Lott, 48, 1340 Dunn
Drive, Gainesville, probation vio
lation.
•Ulices Ramirez Mandoza, 23,
1411 Appian Way, Lawrenceville,
driving without a license and driv
ing vehicle without proper tag.
•Brandon Boyed Meeks, 20,
Mount Sinai Road, Lula, posses
sion of alcohol by a minor.
•Richard Eric Moore, 34, 169
Primrose Lane, Milford, Penn.,
battery (Family Violence Act).
•Farrell Estee Nation, 49, 4952
Hwy. 51 South, Lula, open con
tainer violation.
•Joshua Nathaniel Pressley, 25,
700 Underwood Road, Alto, giv
ing false information to a law
enforcement officer.
OFFENSES
Offenders placed on probation,
parole or supervised release from
prison after July 1, 1996, are required
to register for the following offens
es: rape, sodomy (against a minor),
aggravated sodomy (against a minor
or an adult), statutory rape (unless
the age of the perpetrator is 18 years
of age or younger), child molesta
tion, aggravated child molestation,
enticing a child for indecent purposes
and aggravated sexual battery.
Other offenses include: kidnapping
of a minor (except by a parent), false
imprisonment of a minor (except by
a parent), criminal sexual conduct
toward a minor, solicitation of a
•Jeffrey Ryan Reeves, 19, 1284
Hwy. 98, Maysville, criminal tres
pass.
•Susan Rana Rylee, 39, D-115
Cranes Mobile Home Drive,
Homer, disorderly conduct and
phone harassment.
•Dennis Robert Smith, 55, 5492
White Hall Road, Lula, driving
with a suspended license and driv
ing without insurance.
•Bryan Morris Sullivan, 26, 116
Sullivan Drive, Homer, public
drunkenness.
•Allan Gerardo Val verde, 22,260
Pelham, Greenville, S.C., driving
without a license and excessive
speeding.
•Justin Dane Varner, 20, 3482
Hwy. 59, Commerce, DUI (alco
hol) and possession of alcohol by
a minor.
•Sara Elizabeth Walters, 53, 221
Sol Drive, Homer, theft by shop
lifting.
•Dennis White, 53, 477 Sims
Bridge Road, Commerce, DUI
(alcohol) and improper lane
change.
minor to engage in sexual contact,
use of a minor in sexual performance,
solicitation of a minor to practice
prostitution, 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 produce
any visual medium depicting such
conduct; creating, publishing, selling
or distributing any material depicting
a minor engaged in sexually-explicit
conduct; transmitting, making, sell
ing, buying or disseminating by
means of a computer any descriptive
or identifying information regarding
a child for the purpose of offering or
soliciting sexual conduct.
A child custody dispute call at a
Railroad Avenue, Lula, residence
was responded to by the Banks
County Sheriff’s Office Saturday.
This was one of several domes
tic-related incidents responded to
by the BCSO during the past week.
Other incidents included:
•dispute at a Shady Grove Road,
Homer, residence.
•battery at a Porter Street, Alto,
residence.
•assisted a man in picking up his
belongings from a Samples Scales
Road, Homer, residence.
Incident Reports
A Banks County Sheriff’s Office
deputy was dispatched to an East
Ridgeway Road residence on July
28 concerning a dispute.
When the deputy arrived at the
scene those on the scene would
not give any information about the
alleged dispute. Eventually, two
subjects at the scene said a father
and son had been arguing and that
the father had left.
They said they had “got into it over
some sausage” and the father left.
The BCSO also responded to a
report of threats at a Shady Grove
Road, Homer, residence on July 29.
When the deputy arrived at the
scene he was told that a person
had arrived at a chicken house on
the property and said he was going
to kill someone. The offender had
left the scene prior to the deputy’s
arrival, however.
In other incidents last week, the
BCSO responded to:
•dispute at TA Truckstop on Hwy.
441.
•dispute at a Rock Springs Road,
Lula, residence.
•custody dispute at a Cranes
Mobile Home Drive, Homer, resi
dence.
•custody dispute report made at
Banks County Sheriff’s Office.
•suicide threats made at
McDonalds.
•dispute at an Otis Brown Road,
Baldwin, residence.
•custody dispute at Burger King
on Hwy. 441.
•threats by phone at a Wells
Road, Homer, residence.
•dispute at a Trout Lane,
Commerce, residence.
•alarm at Banks County High
School which proved to be false.
•suspicious activity at Outback
during overnight hours.
•trespassing at Sonic.
•illegal dumping at Otis Brown
Road Chevron station.
•trespassing at a Faulkner Road,
Commerce, residence.
•alarm at Banks County Middle
School on Thompson Street which
proved to be false.
•ATV in roadway on Barefoot
Circle in area of Barefoot Road.
•assisted motorist on 1-85 North
near milemarker 153 who needed
•harassment at a Hwy. 441,
Commerce, residence.
•child abandonment at a
Damascus Road, Baldwin, resi
dence.
•welfare check at a Hawkins
Road, Homer, residence.
•dispute at a Sprayberry Road
residence.
•dispute at a Wynn Caudell Road,
Carnesville, residence.
•harassment at a Westbrook road,
Commerce, residence.
•dispute at an East Ridgeway
Road, Commerce, residence.
help in changing tire.
•disorderly conduct at Homer
Chevron.
•child locked in vehicle at an
Canters Run, Homer, residence.
•dispute reported at Krystals on
Hwy. 441.
•alarm at a Gallow Drive residence
which appeared to be false.
•tree in roadway on Hwy. 326.
•alarm at a North Magnum Bridge
Road, Maysville residence which
appeared to be false.
•alarm at Goody’s on Tanger Drive
which appeared to be a false alarm
report.
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Sheriff's office responds to accidents in county
The Banks County Sheriff’s Office responded to
the following vehicle-related accidents in the county
during the past week:
•two-vehicle accident on Hwy. 15.
•two-vehicle accident on Hwy. 15 at the intersection
of Eisenhower Drive.
•two-vehicle accident on Hwy. 15 South.
•two-vehicle accident on Hwy. 441 at TA
Truckstop.
•one-vehicle accident on 1-85.
•one-vehicle accident on East Ridgeway Road.
•two-vehicle accident at Wal-Mart on Hwy. 441.
Sex Offender’s List
GBI website lists state sex offender's list
Father, son argue over 'some sausage,’ father leaves