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PAGE 6A — THE MADISON COUNTY (GA) JOURNAL. THURSDAY. JUNE 11.2009
On the Record
Colbert woman charged with DUI
A Colbert woman was
arrested last week on Hwy. 98
east of Danielsville.
Cassandra Blake Huff, 20,
of 1775 Sorrow Patterson
Road, was charged with one
count of DUI/drugs.
According to the inci
dent report, Lt. Jeff Vaughn
responded to Hwy. 98 in ref
erence to a possible drunk
driver. The caller advised that
they followed the vehicle from
the Ila area and that the driver,
later identified as Huff, was
running off the road and had
almost wrecked several times.
After stopping the vehicle, Lt.
Vaughn noticed that Huff was
very unsteady on her feet as
she got out. She told the dep
uty that she had taken Xanax
the day before, but was not
currently under the influence
of any medication.
However, she failed the stan
dard sobriety tests and Vaughn
reportedly found a bottle of
Xanax pills on her person.
The prescription was for 60
and filled two days prior, but
there were only 25 pills in
the bottle, the deputy noted.
She was taken to the Madison
County Jail for booking.
In another arrest involv
ing drugs, Dustin Albert
Edwards, 19, of 74 Buddy
Moore Road, Lot 37, Colbert,
was charged with possession
of hydrocodone, obstruction
of an officer, drugs to be kept
in original container and giv
ing false information or false
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name to a police officer.
According to the incident
report. Deputy Mark Jerome
was waiting to serve a war
rant at Diamond Hill Grocery
when he observed a man
(Edwards) walking towards a
car he had been watching in
the parking lot. As Jerome
pulled up behind Edwards,
he reportedly started to walk
faster and shoved something
in his mouth. Jerome told him
to spit whatever was in his
mouth out and he complied,
spitting out pink colored pills.
Edwards was placed on the
ground under arrest and hand
cuffed before Jerome recov
ered the pills, which Edwards
initially told him were Tylenol.
He later admitted the pills
were Lortab (hydrocodone), a
controlled substance. Jerome
charged him with the previ
ously listed charges and took
him to the Madison County
Jail for booking.
Others arrested by law
enforcement officials in
Madison County recently
include:
•Dennis Lee Allen, 48,
530 Horace Reed Road,
Danielsville, battery.
•Pamela Heather Ballenger,
33, 362 Pleasant Acres Farm
Road, Nicholson, burglary.
•Kerry Tyrone Brock, 30,
362 Pleasant Acres Farm
Road, Nicholson, burglary.
•Anthony George Daniel,
42, 235 Rock Spring Street,
Athens, probation violation
(original charge: forgery in
the first degree) and order to
incarcerate for child support.
•Marlon Sherrard Haynes,
32, 6005 Smokey Road,
Athens, bench warrant (origi
nal charge: aggravated assault,
burglary, battery, etc.).
•Harley Dwayne Jones, 22,
215 Bumpy Road, Royston,
probation violation.
•David Alexander Ledbetter,
26, 1253 Crawford W. Long
Street, Danielsville, theft by
taking motor vehicle, flee
ing or attempting to elude a
police officer, speeding, DUI,
driving while license with
drawn and open container in
vehicle.
•Phillip Anthony Nelms, 30,
P.O. Box 107, Lexington, two
counts of forgery in the first
degree and identity fraud.
•Jennifer Hall Patton, 35,
568 Chandler Road, Hull, fail
ure to appear (original charge:
theft by taking).
•Rebecca Ann Ross, 28,
1501 Meadows Lane, Vidalia,
driving while license with
drawn suspended or revoked,
suspended registration, opera
tion of a vehicle with improp
er license plate and failure to
appear.
•Dwayne Gregory
Thompson, 28, 126 Poyce
Avenue, Utica N.Y., speed
ing and driving while license
withdrawn suspended or
revoked.
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•Waheed Ahmad, 24, 2249
Tullamore Circle, Snellville,
commercial gambling.
•Anthony Reginald Bales,
18, 148 Peachtree Street,
Colbert, hold for Clarke
County.
•Jamaris Fontain Barnett,
25, 1045 Hull Road, Athens,
bench warrant.
•James Allen Barrett, 33
Fleming Street, Colbert, bat
tery.
•Cassandra Ann Carey, 26,
205 Double H Farm Road,
Commerce, bench warrant,
criminal trespass and two
counts of theft by shoplifting.
•Byron Taylor Freeman,
27, 314 Diamond Court,
Carrollton, DUI and speed
ing. (Comer PD)
•Mack Arthur Hill, 41,
20 Watkins Farm Road,
Lexington, bench warrant.
•Mitchell Burton Hogan, 49,
520 Greencrest Drive, Athens,
deposit account fraud.
•Jillian Carol Phillips, 28,
175 Spring Court, Athens,
theft by shoplifting.
•Robert Michael Scogin,
34, 707 Buddy Moore Road,
Colbert, bench warrant.
•Jessie Wymbs Jr., 38, 613
Windthorpe Place, Riverdale,
five counts of deposit account
fraud.
Sexual battery
reported on Hwy. 172
Aggravated sexual battery was reported on June 4 at a Hwy.
172 residence.
According to the incident report. Deputy Matthew Pilkington
responded to the call about a rape and was told by the teenage
female victim that the perpetrator was her ex-boyfriend who
came to her house at approximately 1:10 a.m. and knocked on
her window, asking her to come outside. She reportedly went
to the kitchen and got a knife and then met him outside at the
garage, where he allegedly begged her to take him back and
asked her to have sex. She reportedly told him “no, because
her mother was home.” He then reportedly got angry and
carried her behind the house, where he raped her. He ran off
when she reached for her cell phone, taking the phone with
him. No arrests had been made at the time of this report.
In another incident, an Elberton man was arrested last week
after allegedly attempting to break into several homes on Pine
Valley Farm Road.
Steven Wayne Miller, 28, 2063 Cold Water Road, was
charged with two counts of criminal damage to property in the
second degree and probation violation.
In one incident, a woman reported that she found her home
burglarized by someone breaking a back door window out.
She stated that the only thing missing was a Pepsi from the
refrigerator and that someone had also used her toilet and
failed to flush it.
Deputy Michael Free stated that Miller was a possible sus
pect at the time of the report, that he had been “hiding from
the law” for the past several days in that area and had allegedly
been spotted entering other houses.
Other incidents on file at the sheriffs office last week
included:
•Criminal trespass was reported on Oakview Drive in Hull.
•Criminal damage to property in the second degree was
reported on Hwy. 29 South.
•Burglary was reported on Pine Valley Farm Road.
•Criminal trespass was reported on Pine Valley Farm Road.
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MADISON COUNTY
BOARD OF EDUCATION
The following is a breakdown of the proposed Fiscal Year 2010 budget
for the Madison County Schools.
The public is encouraged to review the proposed budget and make
comments at the special board meeting to be held at 6:30 P.M. on June
22, 2009. This meeting will be held in the Professional Learning Center
at the Board of Education office. The official board meeting to adopt the
final budget will be held at 7:00 P.M. on the same day and at the same
location.
GENERAL FUND BUDGET (Tentative)
FY 2010
REVENUES
Local Services
$ 11,246,008.00
State Sources
8 27.611.492.00
TOTAL REVENUES
$ 38,857,500.00
Estimated Beginning Balance
$ 4,022,875.00
TOTALS
$ 42,880,375.00
EXPENDITURES
Instruction 1000
$ 27,027,727.00
Students Services 2100
$ 1,288,840.00
Curriculum Improvement 2210
$ 594,848.00
Media Services 2220
$ 832,577.00
General Administration 2300
$ 1,177,475.00
School Administration 2400
$ 2,652,334.00
Business Services 2500
$ 266,495.00
Maintenance 2600
$ 2,844,011.00
Transportation 2700
$ 2,077,538.00
Support Services 2800
$ 60,090.00
Other Support Services 2900
$ 265,000.00
Rutland Project
$ 68,200.00
TOTAL EXPENDITURES
$ 39,155,135.00
Capital Projects
$ 0.00
Est. Ending Balance
$ 3,725,240.00
TOTALS
$ 42,880,375.00