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THOMASTON POLICE HAVE ARRESTED A LOCAL COUPLE FOR THE THEFT OF A $6000 BRONZE STATUE OF AN INFANT FROM IN FRONT OF PEDIATRIC ASSOCIATES MEDICAL BUILDING AT HANNAH’S MILL ROAD AND POPLAR DRIVE.
MARC DAVID SMITH, 38 AND HIS WIFE, JENNIFER SMITH, 41 TOOK THE STATUE TO BARE METALS IN GRIFFIN AND GOT $189 FOR IT, ACCORDING TO P.D. INVESTIGATOR PHILLIP TOBIN.
A TRAGEDY INVOLVING THE LAFIESTA MEXICAN RESTAURANT FAMILY OF THOMASTON. ACCORDING TO THOMASTON POLICE AN AUTOPSY HAS BEEN ORDERED TO DETERMINE THE CAUSE OF DEATH OF AN 86 YEAR OLD FEMALE WHO PERISHED IN A 5AM HOUSE FIRE ON NORTH GOODRICH AVE.
TWO OTHER MALES ESCAPED THE BLAZE, ONE SUFFERED 2ND DEGREE BURNS AND WAS AIR AMBULANCED TO THE BURN UNIT AT GRADY HOSPITAL IN ATLANTA. THE OTHER HAD SEVERE CUTS WHEN HE WENT THROUGH A WINDOW AND WAS TRANSPORTED TO UPSON REGIONAL MEDICAL CENTER BY UPSON EMS.
CAUSE OF THE FIRE STILL UNDETERMINED.
DART CONTAINER CORPORATION OF MASON, MICHIGAN AND THE SOLO CUP COMPANY HEADQUARTERED IN LAKE FOREST, ILLINOIS, HAVE ANNOUNCED THAT THEY HAVE SIGNED A DEFINITIVE AGREEMENT UNDER WHICH DART CONTAINER WILL ACQUIRE SOLO IN A TRANSACTION VALUED AT $1 BILLION. BOTH COMPANIES ARE IN THE CONSUMER AND FOOD SERVICE DISPOSABLE PACKAGING BUSINESS. THE TRANSACTION, WHICH IS SUBJECT TO REGULATORY APPROVAL, IS EXPECTED TO CLOSE BY THE THIRD QUARTER OF THE YEAR.
SOLO CUP EMPLOYS JUST UNDER 200 AT THE THOMASTON PLANT NEAR THE AIRPORT. THE PLANT WAS ONCE A PART OF INNOWARE AND WHEN IT FIRST CAME TO UPSON COUNTY IT WAS PART OF A DUTCH FIRM, DE STAR.
THE MARCH UPSON COUNTY GRAND JURY INDICTED DANTANZIAS. RAINES, 17, MONDAY FOR THE SHOOTING DEATH OF CAB DRIVER, BRANDI GUINED IN DECEMBER 2011.
RAINES WAS INDICTED ON 9 COUNTS, INCLUDING MALICE MURDER, FELONY MURDER, AGGRAVATED ASSAULT, AND CRIMINAL ATTEMPT TO COMMIT ARMED ROBBERY.
THOMASTON POLICE SAID MS. GUINED WAS SHOT IN THE BACK IN AN APPARENT ROBBERY ATTEMPT AND DROVE A SHORT DISTANCE BEFORE RUNNING INTO A FENCE AT 7-11 GROCERY ON BARNESVILLE STREET.
RAINES HAS BEEN HELD IN THE UPSON COUNTY JAIL WITHOUT BOND SINCE HIS ARREST.
ACCORDING TO A PRESS RELEASE FROM THE LAMAR COUNTY S.O. THE BODY OF JOHN DIXON, 75, OF AKINS STREET, BARNESVILLE WAS FOUND FRIDAY ON THE FORSYTH-YATESVILLE ROAD. THE SUSPECT IN THE CASE, JAMARRIS LATUAN WILLIAMS WAS TAKEN INTO CUSTODY AT 177 HWY 41 NORTH AND HE HAS BEEN CHARGED WITH MURDER, BOND DENIED.
THE CITY OF THOMASTON’S WATER SYSTEM OPERATOR, SEVERN TRENT SERVICES WAS WORKING THURSDAY AFTERNOON TO REPAIR A MAIN BREAK NORTH OF POTATO CREEK NEAR WHERE THE NEW BRIDGE PROJECT IS UNDERWAY.
CARL PRUETT OF TGA NEWS REPORTED WATER WAS SHOOTING INTO THE AIR, AFTER THE BREAK AROUND 2PM AND TRAFFIC WAS SLOWED IN THE AREA.
THOMASTON’S POLICE CHIEF DAN GREATHOUSE SAID TWO CHURCHES AND SEVERAL PUBLIC BUILDINGS EXPERIENCED THE VANDALISM DURING THE WEEKEND,INCLUDING FIRST UNITED METHODIST CHURCH, TRINITY BAPTIST CHURCH, URMC, THE HIGHTOWER MEMORIAL LIBRARY AND THE SENIORS CENTER AT THE GOVERNMENT COMPLEX.
CHIEF GREATHOUSE SAID THE TWO MALES SEEM TO BE 18 TO 19 YEARS OF AGE AND THEY PAINTED THE WORD WANGO OUTSIDE THE BUILDINGS, WITH AN X THROUGH THE 0. ITS UNCLEAR WHAT THE WORD MEANS, ACCORDING TO THE CHIEF.
UPSON S.O. WAS DIVERTING TRAFFIC OFF DEL RAY ROAD BETWEEN MUD BRIDGE ROAD AND MOORE’S CROSSING FRIDAY AFTERNOON AROUND 4PM. MAJOR DAN KILGORE SAID SOMEONE HAD SERIOUS INJURIES FROM A TRAFFIC ACCIDENT.
LAMAR COUNTY S.O. SAID THE BODY OF A MALE WAS FOUND NEAR THE RAILROAD TRACKS ON MIDWAY ROAD OFF 36 EAST FRIDAY MORNING. LATER THEY ARRESTED A SUSPECT FOR THE HIT AND RUN.
ACCORDING TO MAJOR DAN KILGORE, UPSON S.O. PHILLIP WAYNE KECK JR., 33 AND JOYCE MARIE KECK, 40 OF CREST HIGHWAY ARE CHARGED WITH 3 BURGLARIES IN NORTHERN AND WESTERN UPSON COUNTY AND ARE ALSO WANTED IN PIKE COUNTY.
