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♦ FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 25, 2005
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Drug dogs aid in
weekend drug arrests
By RAY LIGHTNER
HHJ Staff Writer
WARNER ROBINS -
Warner Robins Police
Department canines Ajax
and Gunner sniffed out pot
and ice last weekend.
Gunner gave his trained
response for the presence of
narcotics on the car of Leila
Harpe, 20, 1205 Leverette
Road, Apt. 1012, on Feb. 18.
Harpe was stopped after
reportedly turning in the
westbound lane of' Ignico
Drive onto northbound N.
Davis Drive.
She provided a valid
license for police, who also
identified the other three
females in the car. The
canine officer and Gunner
were sent to the scene to
conduct a free-air sniff
around the vehicle and
alerted positive, prompting
a search of the car.
Found in the purse of was
one red plastic jeweler’s bag
of suspected marijuana and
one blue plastic jeweler’s
bag of suspected marijuana.
Raina Danielle Newman, 19,
same address as driver,
claimed the purse and the
marijuana, according to
reports. Also found was a
partially smoked hand
rolled marijuana cigarette
(blunt) in Harpe’s Newport
cigarette pack.
Harpe and Newman were
arrested for possession of
marijuana-less than one
ounce. The car was turned
over to a licensed driver. The
suspected marijuana report
edly field-tested positive.
Saturday, the WRPD’s
narcotics detection canine
Ajax indicated, by giving the
trained response of sitting,
on the passenger side door
of suspect’s car at a deputy’s
traffic stop on Sandy Run
Road and Madison Drive.
SUSPECTS
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The investigation is ongo
ing. Police were interview
ing five to 10 more suspects
and there may be further
charges. Dodson said addi
tional charges could include
transmitting false public
alarm and disrupting a pub
lic school. Phelps said the
suspects may have been
involved in other criminal
activity.
“It makes me mad,”
Phelps said. “Children don’t
have anything better to do
but disrupt schools. It’s
childish to do something like
that.”
Phelps wanted to get the
message out: “If the sus
pects were 17, they would be
going to adult jail.”
Police cannot release the
names or pictures of the sus
pects because they are juve
niles.
“If we find any adults
involved and charge them,
their name and pictures will
be released,” Phelps said.
There apparently were
enough students who knew
before or shortly after the
calls were made, Phelps
said, that the evacuations
could have been prevented.
He said anyone who had
prior knowledge will be
charged as an accessory.
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Inside the car, suspected
methamphetamine ice was
found in a black pouch
inside the driver’s purse.
Also in the pouch was
$613 in cash. In the purse
was a small glass bottle con
taining more ice. The driver,
Lisa Gail Jackson, 44, 112
Madison Drive, Bonaire,
was taken into custody.
Running a red light in
front of a police officer
prompted another traffic
stop and subsequent drug
arrest on Feb. 18.
An officer stopped at a red
light on S. Houston Road
observed a car come straight
through the intersection as
the turn arrow changed and
initiated a traffic stop on the
red Oldsmobile. When asked
for license and insurance,
the driver, Charlton Andrew
Hardy, 29, 1110
Hawkinsville Road, Warner
reportedly said the
vehicle did not have insur
ance and his license was sus
pended.
The suspect was arrested
for driving on a suspended
license. A check of his per
son found a small plastic
baggy in Hardy’s right
watch pocket; He allegedly
admitted two blue pills were
Xanax.
Found in the car’s center
console was a Marlboro ciga
rette box containing a white
rock-like substance that
tested positive for metham
phetamine (ice). Hardy
reportedly told officer he
forget it was in the car.
Hardy was charged with
possession of Schedule I/II
(methamphetamine, posses
sion of Schedule IV/V
(Xanax), driving on a sus
pended license, no insurance
and disregarding the red
light.
Students were evacuated
from the four county high
schools Wednesday follow
ing a call that came in
around 10 a.m. to the
Central Office of the
Houston County Board of
Education in Perry. Phelps
said the caller told the
school system “bombs were
set at the high schools and
they will detonate soon.”
Police and school officials
searched and cleared each
school to make sure the calls
were a hoax. Board spokes
woman Beth Burris said
nothing out of the ordinary
was found at any of the
schools.
Phelps expressed appreci
ation for assistance provided
by the school system and
superintendent Danny
Carpenter, Perry High
School, Warner Robins
Police Department and the
Houston County Sheriffs
Office. Phelps also praised
the rapid response of
Houston County 911.
“It was a joint effort,” he
said.
Dodson said the juvenile
cases and charges have been
turned over to the Houston
County Sheriff s Office
Juvenile Division’s Sgt. Kel
Broom.
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Wanda West speaks to a full house at the NCO Club on Robins Air Force Base during the Warner Robins Air
Logistic Center Black Heritage Observance Committee Luncheon. This was one of five events held with the con
cluding one being held today.
West speaks at Black Heritage event
By TERESA D. SOUTH
ERN
HHJ Staff Writer
ROBINS AIR FORCE
BASE - The Warner Robins
Air Logistics Center Black
Heritage Observance
Committee continued its
series of events marking
Black History Month with a
luncheon recently.
Dr. Wanda West, superin
tendent of Twiggs County
Schools, was the guest
speaker.
Prior to this event there
was a Gospel Extravaganza,
held Feb. 6, that featured
local church groups and
praise teams, and a Health
Fun Run/Walk held Feb. 11.
The theme of the WR
ALC Observance
Committee is the 100th
anniversary of the Niagara
Movement.
West spoke of black lead
ers teaming together during
the Niagara Movement held
in 1905 in Niagara Falls.
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On hand for the proclamation were members of Keep
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was the historic meeting of
29 prominent blacks lead
ers, in which a manifesto
was drawn calling for full
civil liberties, abolition of
racial discrimination, and
recognition of human
brotherhood.
West said leaders today
should embrace these prin
ciples.
“Booker T. Washington
and W.E.B. Dußois teamed
together and welcomed
churches and surrounding
leaders to redefine society,”
West said. “One hundred
years later, these principles
are not known by many.”
West continued: “We have
come too far to sit on our
posterior anatomy to let our
brains go bland.”
She spoke of her child
hood, growing up in the
Pleasant Hill neighborhood
of Macon.
“It’s been a long way
from collard greens to broc
coli, from chitlins to steak
and shrimp,” West said.
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“Don’t sweat the small
stuff. Instead of just work
ing in your workplace and
focusing on position and
power, focus on your contri
bution to the place.”
She related this to gain
ing her position as superin
tendent of Twiggs County
Public Schools, her belief in
the workplace being a posi
tive environment, and
being a cancer survivor.
West concluded with a
poem entitled “Let It Go.”
The program ended with
the singing of the Negro
National Anthem.
“The committee has been
working on the list of event
since October, and imple
menting fundraising proj
ects to raise money for the
list of events,” said 2nd Lt.
Lashean Lawson, chairman
of the observance commit
tee.
Lawson said the theme of
the event each year is cho
sen by the U.S. Department
of Defense.
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“There has been a lot of
continuity with the events,”
Lawson said. “We have had
a think tank to promote
awareness among youth
and looking not only at
blacks but at other ethnic
groups as well.”
Lawson said there has
been a lot of response to all
the activities held and a lot
of participation.
The group also held a
Youth and Career Forum on
Saturday at the Museum of
Aviation. Lawson said the
fair began with a career
panel, included a Black
History trivia game and the
judging of an essay contest
that was open to middle and
high school students in the
community.
The finale event will be
held today at the NCO
Club, and will feature “5
Men on a Stool.” Lawson
said this is a combination of
spoken word, poetry and
instrumental performanc
es. The dinner theatre will
be from 7 to 10 p.m.
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