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PAGE 6A —THE MADISON COUNTY (GA) JOURNAL. THURSDAY. DECEMBER 31. 2009
On the Record
Man arrested after fleeing from deputy
A Commerce man was
arrested last week after he
fled from a deputy trying to
pull him over for speeding
(63 mph in a 45 mph zone)
on Neese Commerce Road.
Josepha Kyle Evans, 20,
3572 Hwy. 98 West, was
charged with fleeing or
attempting to elude, speed
ing, reckless driving, driving
on wrong side of the road
and failure to stop at a stop
sign.
According to the incident
report, Deputy Jeff Strickland
was traveling southbound on
Neese Commerce when he
observed a red Honda travel
ing at a high rate of speed.
When he turned around and
activated his blue lights and
siren for a traffic stop, the
Honda reportedly turned
onto W.L. Williams Road at
a high rate of speed, sliding
sideways. After following the
subject into Jackson County,
Strickland lost sight of him
and notified Jackson County.
About that time, Corporal
Jason Luke of the Madison
County Sheriffs Office noti
fied Strickland that the red
Honda had passed him and
turned into a residence on
Hwy. 98 West, where he and
Deputy Alan Stratton saw
him run into the residence.
Evans was found stand
ing in the living room of
the residence and arrested.
He denied being the driver
of the vehicle, but his boot
prints matched those found
beside the vehicle, as did his
appearance and the cap he
was wearing when Strickland
first spotted him.
In another arrest, David
Christopher Patrick, 39, of
2613 Hardman Morris Road,
Colbert, was charged with
battery under the Family
Violence Act (FVA) after he
allegedly got into a physical
altercation with his juvenile
son. The deputy reportedly
observed marks on the boy’s
neck.
Others arrested by law
enforcement in Madison
County last week included:
•Elisa Elizabeth Angel, 36,
1160 Daniels Bridge Road,
Watkinsville, bench warrant
(original charges: theft by
taking and obstruction).
•Jerry Christopher Angel,
31, 186 Alexander Road,
Commerce, bench warrant
(original charge: theft by
taking).
•Linda Susette Bales, 48,
159 South Main Street, Hull,
three counts of forgery in the
first degree, eight counts of
deposit account fraud and a
parole violation.
•Dustin Wayne Cash, 37,
6596 Hwy. 191, Comer,
probation violation (original
charge: driving while license
suspended, etc.).
•Jeffery Donald Doster, 47,
877 Hwy. 106, Hull, two
counts of probation viola
tion (possession of cocaine),
failure to appear (original
charge: driving on a sus
pended license) and a bench
warrant.
•Wesley Paul Edins, 32,
381 Dove Drake Road,
Royston, hold for Stephens
County.
•Jeffery Ray Morris, 48,
420 Lot 9, Athens, bench
warrant (original charge:
simple battery) and deposit
account fraud.
•Jaime Jeovane Ramirez,
34, 362 Pleasant Acre Farm
Road, Nicholson, two counts
of bench warrant (original
charges: driving while unli
censed and failure main
tain a lane) and giving false
information (bondsman off
bond).
•Billy Raymond
Standridge, 29, 65 James
Lane, Danielsville, driving
while license withdrawn,
suspended or revoked, DUI
and leaving the scene of an
accident.
•Ronald Edward Tarpkins,
45,893 W. L. Williams Road,
Commerce, speeding, open
container in vehicle, driving
while license withdrawn and
a probation violation.
•Richard Daniel White, 44,
4545 Boundry Circle, Cedar
Bluff, Ala., failure to appear
(original charges: VGCSA,
forgery, giving false name,
etc.)
•Wayne Roger Chastain,
63, 139 Human Road,
Bowman, driving while
license withdrawn, no insur
ance and driving while tag is
suspended.
•Thomas Tao Easton, 23,
180 Oak Bend Drive, Hull,
DUI, failure to drive within
a single lane, seatbelt viola
tion and open container in
vehicle.
•Norman Jeffery Garmon,
57, 6165 Hwy. 72 West,
Colbert, hold for Coweta
County.
•Miguel Rodreguez, 31,
397 Reed Brawner Road,
Royston, driving without a
license.
•Tony James Tucker, 35,
543 Rogers Mill Road,
Danielsville, bench warrant.
Woman reports Christmas Eve rape
A woman reportedly filed
a report at the sheriff’s office
on Christmas Eve night, say
ing she was raped at a resi
dence around Carlton.
The woman gave the iden
tity of the man and said that
he had had sexual intercourse
with her against her will. The
case was turned over to inves
tigators.
In another incident, three
male juveniles were report
edly arrested for vandalizing
the pool house at The Reserve
Subdivision on Roger’s Mill
Road last week.
Deputy Alan Stratton and
Major Shawn Bums were
called to the scene where they
reportedly found paint thrown
on the roof, doors kicked in,
paint and other items thrown
in the pool and a severely
bent wrought iron gate. The
owner estimated the damages
at $4,500.
The officers located three
sets of tracks and a small
set of wheels that led toward
Rogers Mill Road. Deputy
Stratton located three boys
at the main entrance to the
subdivision and their shoes
matched the shoe prints found
at the scene, along with the
wheels on a skateboard that
one of the boys had. They
were taken to the Madison
County Jail, where they were
turned over to an investiga
tor.
Other incidents on file at
the sheriff’s office this week
included:
•Harassing phone calls
were reported on Madison
Avenue in Colbert, where a
man stating he had received
several phone calls from a
man he knew stating that he
was going to “kill him and his
family.”
Other incidents on file at
the sheriff’s office this week
included:
•Burglary was reported on
Hwy. 106 South.
•Driving while license sus
pended or revoked was report
ed on Reed Brawner Road.
•Battery was reported on
Farm Road.
•Burglary was reported on
Sorrow Patterson Road.
•Battery was reported on
Ginn Drive.
•A vehicle was reportedly
broken into on Homestead
Road.
•Criminal trespass was
reported on Cherokee Road at
Osley Mill Road.
•Fleeing or attempting to
elude was reported on Neese
Commerce Road.
•A DUI was reported on
Irvin Kirk Road.
•A domestic dispute was
reported on Transco Road
near Comer.
•A domestic dispute was
reported on James Lane in
Danielsville.
Georgia DOT launches teen driving website
The Georgia Department of
Transportation has launched
a new resource for teen driv
ers and their parents.
The website — “Teen
Driving Safety 101," www.
dot.ga.gov/teendriving — is
a "one-stop" information
portal providing informa
tion on driving laws, safety
tips and travel information to
help teens stay safe behind
the wheel.
"Vehicle crashes are the
leading cause of death
among American teens,” said
Georgia DOT Commissioner
Vance C. Smith Jr. "The
department is dedicated to
reducing teen crashes in
Georgia, and part of that mis
sion involves ensuring that
Georgia teens have the infor
mation they need to become
safe, responsible drivers.
"With school activities.
homecoming dances and
football games all on their
schedules, it is important
that teens and their families
be able to get the informa
tion they need quickly and
easily,” Smith added. “This
website, ‘Teen Driving
Safety 101,’ is designed to
provide teens and their par
ents a ‘one-stop’ site that
they can access with just one
click.”
The website was devel
oped in partnership with
the Governor’s Office
of Highway Safety, the
Department of Driver
Services, and Riverdale High
School’s Technology Team.
In addition to these partners,
the site includes links to
other government agencies
and sites with information
about teen driving laws and
general travel information.
Crime and court policy
It is the policy of this news
paper to print the names of all
persons arrested and booked
through the Madison County
Jail. No exceptions are made
to that policy.
This newspaper also rou
tinely publishes the names
of those involved in criminal
court cases as those actions
make their way through the
judicial system, including the
final disposition of the case
when it is known.
We caution our readers,
however, that an arrest is not
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In addition to arrest reports,
we also routinely publish
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filed with local law enforce
ment agencies. Most of the
time, the names of those
involved are not published
unless one party has been offi
cially charged with a crime.
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Comer man dies
after Dec. 22 wreck
A Comer man died Christmas Eve following a colli
sion with a chicken feed truck Tuesday night, Dec.
22. Larry Dwayne Drake was extricated from his
pickup truck following a collision with a feed truck
near the Broad River Bridge on Hwy. 172 just inside
the Madison County line and taken by Madison
County EMS to an Athens hospital, where he later
died. The wreck occurred around 9 p.m. Tuesday
night. The driver and a passenger in the feed truck
were not seriously injured. The Grey Dodge Dakota
pickup driven by Drake was westbound on Hwy. 172
and the feedtruck was eastbound. The feed truck
was backing into a road and Drake traveled into the
Mac truck’s lane of traffic, hitting the truck head-on,
according to the State Patrol.
Photo by Shane Scoggins, The Elberton Star
DOT: Please turn off
outdoor sprinklers
The Georgia Department of Transportation is reminding
people to prevent ice on the roadways by turning off their
sprinkler systems during the winter.
“Sprinkler systems that are left on overnight can create a
hazardous condition for motorists the next morning,” said
DOT district maintenance engineer Todd McDuffie.
“Every year, we see accidents caused by icy spots formed
when water from sprinkler systems gets onto the roadway,”
he added. “Spray from the sprinkler is blown onto the road
or water drains onto the road; black ice is formed and ice
develops creating a hazard for motorists.”
McDuffie asked that residents ensure that their automatic
sprinkler systems are turned off and to check for icy patches
or "black ice” in the mornings after sub-freezing tempera
tures hit.
CDC: Emails about
H1N1 program are scam
The Centers for Disease
Control and Prevention
(CDC) is warning about a
potential email “phishing”
scam involving the state vac
cination program for HINI.
The email asks people
to create a personal H1N1
("swine flu”) vaccination
profile on the CDC.gov web
site.
The email says that every
one 18 and older must have a
personal vaccination profile
on the website — regardless
if they have been vaccinated
or not for the H1N1 vims. It
asks users to click on a link
to create a personal profile.
Users that click on the
embedded link in the email
are at risk of having mali
cious code installed on their
system, the CDC said in a
statement.
Users are urged to not open
or respond to unsolicited
email messages, not to click
on links embedded in emails
from unknown senders and
use caution when providing
personal information online.
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