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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 The Madison County Journal is your source for local news. Call 706-795-2567 to subscribe. 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. Banks-Jackson Risk Reduction DUI SCHOOL 706-336-6777 DEFENSIVE DRIVING 1728 North Broad Street, Commerce, State Certified 5010 and 2007 Next DUI Class begins on June 20, 2009 Next Defensive Driving Class will be held on June 13, 2009 (tttotr •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. Bentley's Antique Auto Service, Inc. www.mymodela.com We Love Model A Fords Bentley's is a full service shop specializing in Antique and Classic Cars. We offer Award-Winning Body and Paint Service, Engine work, and Machine Shop Services. 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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