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PACE 6A THE BANKS COUNTY NEWS THURSDAY, AUGUST 14, 2008 Questions about an item on this page? Contact Chris Bridges at 706-367-2745 or e-mail him at chris @mainstreetnews. com Crimes/Court/Wrecks Sheriff's office reports 20 arrests Man hit in head with ceramic dog The Banks County Sheriff’s Office reported the following arrests: •Carlos Figueroa Millin, 43, 477 Herbert Segars Road, Gillsville, simple battery. •Kerry Jerome McCoy, 34, RO. Box 147, Maysville, probation vio lation. •James Ira Layton, 37, 1669 Salem Road, Royston, DUI (drugs) and entering an auto. •Cynthia Aileen Kinney, 45, 157 Old House Lane, Maysville, driving with a suspended license and tag light violation. •Erin Jordan, 18, 1124 Wages Bridge Road, theft by shoplifting. •Brandy Danielle Hollis, 21, 120 Green Hill Court, Maysville, DUI (alcohol), driving on wrong side of roadway, weaving and seat belt violation. •Destiny Nicole Daniel. 18, 776 Duncan Swindle Road, Commerce, theft by shoplifting. •Suzanne Rana Conklin, 32, 169 Primrose Lane, Milford, Penn., obstruction of a law enforcement officer. •Crystal Michelle Bramlett, 29, 218 Daily Road, DUI (drugs) and weaving. •Roger Anthony Boswell, 43, 286 Mitchell Road, Maysville, weekend sentence. •Richard Eric Moore, 34, 169 Primrose Lane, Milford, Penn., bat tery (Family Violence Act). •Steven Douglas Moore, 38, IB Kelly Drive, Rome, probation viola tion. •Tammy Sue Perdue, 43, 634 Borders Road, Commerce, proba tion violation. •Jeffrey Ryan Reeves, 19, 1284 Highway 98, Maysville, criminal trespass. •Octavio Ruiz-Perez, 37,233 Trout Lane, Commerce, driving without a license and weaving. •Lauren Vanessa Smith, 25, 138 Carlan Road, Commerce, driving without a license and DUI (alco hol). •Christina Renee Thurmond, 34, 1124 Wages Bridge Road, Nicholson, theft by shoplifting. •Jacqueline Lee Weigand, 47,2319 Planter Gunnell Road, Hull, theft by shoplifting. •Maralyn Winters, 52, 2903 Hwy. 59, Commerce, simple battery (Family Violence Act). •Lisa Glenn Wright, 43, 477 Orchard Circle, Commerce, driving with a suspended license. A woman hit her father in the head with a ceramic dog and earned a trip to the Banks County jail for her efforts. The incident occurred last Friday at a Hwy. 59 residence. When the Banks County Sheriff's Office dep uty arrived at the scene, he was told the woman had smashed the ceramic piece over her father’s head. Other parties at the residence told the deputy the woman had been arguing with everyone when her father asked her to stop and she hit him. The woman was then placed under arrest and transported to jail. In other domestic-related incidents during the past week, the BCSO responded to: •dispute at a Wynn Caudell Road, Carnesville, residence. •aggravated stalking at Banks County Middle School on Thompson Street. •assault at a Historic Homer Highway address. •threats at a McCoy Bridge Road address. •dispute at a Hwy. 441 address, •phone harassment at a Hampton Court motel. •phone harassment at a Hwy. 441 address. •battery at a Grove Level Road, Maysville, residence. •dispute at a Pless Circle, Alto, residence. •dispute at a Brewer Road, Lula, residence. •domestic dispute at a Pottery Road, Commerce, address. •battery at a Herbert Segars Road, Gillsville, residence. •phone harassment at an Otis Brown Road residence. •battery at a Hwy. 323, Gillsville, residence. •harassment at a Trout Lane, Commerce, residence. •dispute at a Historic Homer Highway address. •dispute at a Water Plant Road, Commerce, residence. •dispute at a Rail Road Avenue, Lula, residence. •aggravated assault at a Duncan Road, Commerce, residence. •dispute at an Elm Street, Alto, residence. Sheriff's office responds to accidents in county Man wearing towel arrested after resisting arrest A Homer man was arrested by the Banks County Sheriff Office last week after he had been report ed trespassing and was later seen by a deputy walking down a road way clothed in only a towel. The saga began during the early morning hours of Aug. 7 when the BCSO received a call from a Yonah-Homer Road resident who said someone was banging on the side of their home. Reports indi cated a white man had been seen in the area walking around nude. A deputy was dispatched to the scene who located the suspect, later identified as James Paul Brock, 34 of Homer. He was walking down the road with a towel around his waist. Brock did not respond to requests to stop and had to be physically forced to do so. After a brief strug gle, Brock was taken into custody. Brock was charged with public indecency, pedestrian under the influence of alcohol and obstruc tion of a law enforcement officer. Brock told the deputy he had removed his clothes because some thing had been He was booked County jail. “stinging him.” into the Banks The Banks County Sheriff’s Office responded to the following vehicle-related accidents in the county during the past week: •two-vehicle accident on Historic Homer Highway, •one-vehicle accident on Rock Springs Road. •two-vehicle accident on 1-85. •two-vehicle accident at Hwy. 441 Shell station, •two-vehicle accident at Sonny’s parking lot. •two-vehicle accident on Hickory Flat Road, Gillsville. 1 - Custodian 1 - Parapro 1 - Food Assistant 1 - Attendance Secretary Banks County Board of Education Deadline for receiving applications August 18, 2008. Contact: We Buy All Gold & Silver Tractor trailer stolen from business A tractor trailer stolen from a local business is one of the incidents report ed to the Banks County Sheriff’s Office last week. The tractor trailer was taken from a Hwy. 441 South business. Other incidents reported during the past week to the sheriff’s office include the following: •recovery of stolen items from a Bob White Trail, Alto, residence, •livestock in roadway in area of Patton Road and Hwy. 326. •damage to property at a Grant Mill Road, Alto, residence. •burglar alarm at Banks County Primary School which proved to be false. •a loud noise complaint at Sloppy Joe’s mudbog. The complaint said the mudbog was supposed to close at 10 p.m. but a loud truck could still be heard at 10:30 p.m •theft of two shovels, two rakes and a box of garbage bags from a Duncan Road, Commerce, residence. •burglary at a Lake Forest Drive, Commerce, residence. •theft of vehicle from an East Ridgeway Road, Commerce, residence, •alarm at a Brown Bridge Road residence which appeared to be false, •alarm at BCMS which was set off by the milk man. •alarm at Papa John’s on Tanger Drive which proved to be false. •gas drive-off from Murphy USA. •ATV in roadway on Hwy. 105. •ATV in roadway on Partain Road. •suspicious vehicle on Duncan Road near Riverbend Road. •ATV in roadway on Partain Road. •vehicle taken without permission from a McClure Road, Gillsville, address. •livestock in roadway on Hwy. 98. •livestock in roadway on Carson Segars Road near Hwy. 98. •trespassing at a Water Plant Road, Commerce, residence. Banks County Board of Education P. O. Box 248, 102 Hwy. 51 South, Homer, GA 30547 706-677-2224 v. J Outstanding warrants doom couple You can’t even pick your chil dren up at school without wor rying about being arrested — if you’ve got outstanding warrants. A Homer couple found that out first hand when they were arrested in the parking lot of Commerce Primary school last week. According to the arrest report, an officer received information that a man was in the parking lot who had outstanding warrants. The officer identified James Cory Chambers, 22, of P.O. Box 203, Homer, and arrested him on a probation violation warrant for a drug charge in Jackson County, a probation violation charge stem ming from a burglary conviction in Banks County and an aggravat ed assault charge from Habersham County. A check of the state’s criminal database turned out that the other person in the vehicle at the school, Misty Lee Chambers, 28, of the same address, had similar rela tionships with law enforcement agencies. 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