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THE HOUSTON HOME JOURNAL
Missing man found
ByRAYUGHTNER
HHJ Staff Writer
WARNER ROBINS -
Police initiated the “A Child
is Missing” program
Monday night after a men
tally challenged man van
ished about 5:30 p.m.
The 20-year-old was locat
ed and returned to his moth
er at about 11:30 p.m.,
according to Warner Robins
Police Detective Karen
Stokes.
“We were really getting
concerned,” Stokes said,
“but thank God he’s safe
and back at home with his
mother.”
About 2,055 citizens in the
area of Houston Lake Road
and Ga. 96 were called to
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Cunha, 66,
passed away on
Tuesday, Feb.
1, 2005.
Funeral servic
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at 2 p.m.
Friday, Feb. 4,
2005, at the
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Park Mausoleum. Visitation will be 6 until 8
p.m. Thursday, Feb. 3, 2005 (TODAY), at
McCullough Funeral Home. Contributions
may be made in her memory to the Second
Baptist Church Building Fund, 2504 Moody
Road, Warner Robins, GA 31088, or Hospice
of Houston County, 103 Westridge Drive,
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Burglary arrest nets alleged meth dealer
< By RAY LIGHTNER
HHJ Staff Writer
WARNER ROBINS -
Police came to arrest a man
for burglary and also got a
woman for possession of
methamphetamine with
intent to distribute.
Dewey Traweek, 25, 105
Cricket Hollow Court,
Warner Robins, was arrest
ed Friday by members of the
Warner Robins Criminal
Investigations Division for
the Dec. 15 burglary of a
construction site on
Lake view Road.
“Traweek’s car was found
shortly after the burglary
with heavy front-end dam
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for the man, as part of the A
Child is Missing program.
He was found in the
Chadwick subdivision,
Stokes said, after a resident
called in to say they spotted
him.
“Officers closed in on him,
put him in the patrol car
and took him back home,”
she said. “He’s wandered off
five to seven times before,
but usually for a short time
and then returns home.”
Assisting in the search
were the Georgia State
Patrol, the Houston County
Sheriff’s Office and the Fire
Department. A Child is
Missing is a telephone alert
system that can place 1,000
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age and ID’d at the scene,”
said Warner Robins Police
Detective Brad Mules.
Mules said Traweek drove
his car and a trailer through
the fence at the construction
site.
“The damage on the car
was consistent with that,”
the detective said.
Traweek was arrested at
home for the M&M
Construction site burglary
about 9:25 p.m. He is also
being held in the Houston
County Jail for violation of
Superior Court probation,
Mules said.
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The program was started
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Georgia began using it in
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corporate and private dona
tions and fund-raising.
At a local police training
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was announced the program
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this year.
Warner Robins, GA 31088.
Cunha was born in Fitzgerald, and moved
to Warner Robins in 1943. She was retired
from civil service, and was a member of
Second Baptist Church, Warner Robins,
where she attended both the XYZ Seniors
and the Kindred Spirit Sunday School class.
She was preceded in death by her parents,
Grover and Dora Stone McDowell and a
brother, Buford McDowell.
Survivors include her husband, Gilbert
Cunha of Centerville; daughter, Lynn
Cunha of Florida; brothers, Bob McDowell
(Joan) of Warner Robins, Ray McDowell
(Donna) of Byron, and Bill McDowell
(Jenny) of Charleston, S.C.; several nieces
and nephews; god-daughter, Donna Raiff;
and her extended family Truman and
Lillian Hartzog of Panama City, Fla.
Go to www.mcculloughfh.com to sign
Online Registry for the family. McCullough
Funeral Home has charge of arrangements.
students should see their
senior counselor or business
teacher at school, or contact
Elaine Wooley at either 329-
2226 or ewooley@hcbe.net.
The deadline for turning
in applications is March 4.
- From staff reports
the arrest was Nicholl
Gibeault, 27, 104 Nancelon
Circle, Warner Robins. She
was arrested for possession
of methamphetamine with
intent to distribute.
Mules said the distribu
tion charge stems from the
“several different baggies
with different amounts in
each, packaged for distribu
tion, found in her purse.”
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Owner/operator Jerry Lowrey heads back to the scene of the wreck as Warner
Robins Wrecker pulls one of their own out of a ravine along Ga. 96 on Tuesday.
Truck wrecks on 96
By RAY LIGHTNER
HHJ Staff Writer
KATHLEEN - A truck
driver swerved to avoid hit
ting someone in front of
him, and ended up down a
ravine off Ga. 96 Tuesday
afternoon.
The driver, Jerry Lowrey
of Alabama, said a pickup
truck was going to turn left
into the Royal Oaks subdi
vision, but then stopped.
“I guess he saw a car
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coming,” Lowrey said.
Lowrey was heading west
on Ga. 96.
“I got by with the trac
tor,” he said, “but the trail
er went off the road and
jerked the truck down.”
Lowrey was not injured,
but his truck was damaged
when it rolled over. The
sleeping section was broken
apart and the windshield
busted out. Lowrey is an
owner/operator for
Comtrak Inc. of Memphis,
Tenn., and was hauling a
shipping container at the
time of the wreck.
Warner Robins Wrecker
righted the tractor and the
trailer and pulled them out
of the ravine between the
entrances to the Brantley
subdivision. One of the
large wreckers also had to
be pulled out after getting
stuck in the mud at the bot
tom' of the ravine.
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