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ACCORDING TO UPSON COUNTY SHERIFF DAN KILGORE TWO SUSPECTS ARE BEING HELD WITHOUT BOND IN THE COUNTY JAIL FOR AGGREVATED CHILD MOLESTATION INVOLVING A 15 YEAR OLD FEMALE VICTIM.
SILAS CORNELIUS WHITE, 32 OF 303 WEST MOORE’S CROSSING ROAD, THREE COUNTS, JOHNATHAN TREY HAMMOCK, 26 OF 205 BEALL STREET. ONE COUNT.
SHE CHOSE MR. JEREMY ROOKS, HER CHORUS TEACHER, AS HER STAR TEACHER. GRACE, A SENIOR AT UPSON-LEE HIGH SCHOOL AND THE DAUGHTER OF ANDREA WOLVERTON, RECEIVED THE HONOR AT THE JANUARY 27TH MEETING OF THE THOMASTON KIWANIS CLUB.
ARRESTED, WILLIAM MICHAEL BILL KELLEY, AGE 52 OF 75 PINE STREET IN WOODBURY AND 903 WEST MAIN STREET, THOMASTON, ACCUSED OF DEALING DRUGS.
UPSON , MERIWETHER, AND TAYLOR COUNTY S.O. AND THOMASTON POLICE WITH THE GA. DEPARTMENT OF CORRECTIONS K-9 UNIT SIMULTANEOUSLY EXECUTED FOUR SEARCH WARRANTS , WEDNESDAY.
A QUANITY OF METHAMPHETAMINE, COCAINE, MARIJUANA, AND ECSTASY SEIZED.
KELLY IS BEING HELD WITHOUT BOND IN THE UPSON COUNTY JAIL , ACCORDING TO SHERIFF DAN KILGORE.
THOMASTON POLICE ARRESTED TWO BLACK MALES FROM TALBOT COUNTY AFTER AN ARMED ROBBERY MONDAY NIGHT AT PHAGAN’S CONVIENCE STORE U.S. 19 SOUTH.
A THIRD SUSPECT—A WHITE MALE , STILL AT-LARGE AT LAST REPORT
TIM ROYAL, AGE 49 OF BETHANY CHURCH ROAD, SPOKE WITH WTGA NEWS FROM HIS HOSPITAL BED IN MACON, WEDNESDAY. TIM SAID THE SURGERY TUESDAY TO HIS NECK AND BACK WAS TO REMOVE BONE SPURS, AND HE SAID HE HAS VERY LITTLE MOTION AND FEELING IN HIS LEFT ARM AND LEG. HE TOLD US HE COULD BE TRANSFERRED TO THE SHEPARD SPINAL CENTER IN ATLANTA.
TIM WAS DRIVING A FORKLIFT AT JORDAN FOREST PRODUCTS IN BARNESVILLE SATURDAY WHEN HE HIT SOME RAILROAD TRACKS AND HE WAS EJECTED. HE WAS LIFE FLIGHTED TO THE MACON MEDICAL CENTER.
AT TUESDAY’S REGULAR MEETING, THOMASTON COUNCIL MEMBERS PATSY PERDUE AND GARY ATWATER ANNOUNCED PLANS TO SEEK ANOTHER FOUR YEAR TERM.
THE MAYORS POST IS ALSO ON THE NOVEMBER BALLOT, BUT MAYOR HAYS ARNOLD HAS SAID HE WILL NOT RUN AGAIN.
THE UPSON COUNTY WATER DEPARTMENT REPORTS A WATER MAIN BREAK ON CREST HIGHWAY. WATER IN THE SUNSET AREA IS TEMPORARILY OFF. CREWS ARE WORKING ON THE LEAK AND SERVICE SHOULD BE RESTORED TUESDAY EVENING.
THOMASTON POLICE HAVE BOOKED, A COLUMBUS MAN, SHAMARIK LYNES HUFF, AGE 28 OF COLUMBUS FOR ARMED ROBBERY AT MIKE’S MARKET, 213-A STREET.
THE P.D. SAID A BLACK MALE CONCEALING HIS FACE AND CARRYING A PISTOL ENTERED THE STORE MONDAY , AND FLED ON FOOT AFTER GETTING CASH. LT. ANDREW PIPPIN SAID HUFF HAS BEEN LIVING ON DELUXE CIRCLE WITH HIS GIRL FRIEND. BOND WAS DENIED.
A CULLODEN TRUCK DRIVER WAS KILLED IN A FIVE CAR CRASH SUNDAY NIGHT IN MARION COUNTY, TENNESSEE, VINCENT LECARL OWENS, AGE 30. OWENS PARENTS LIVE IN THE SALEM COMMUNITY OF UPSON COUNTY.
ACCORDING TO THE TENNESSEE HIGHWAY PATROL, A TROOPER WAS ATTEMPTING TO PULL A CAR OVER ON INTERSTATE 1-24 AND SEVERAL OTHER VEHICLES GOT INVOLVED. OWENS REAR-ENDED ANOTHER 18-WHEELER THAT STOPPED IN THE ROAD.
SHERIFF WENDELL BEAM HAS ANNOUNCED 44 SUSPECTS WERE ARRESTED BY NARCOTICS UNITS FROM SPALDING S.O. AND GRIFFIN P.D. WEDNESDAY.
THREE OF THE PERSONS CHARGED WERE ALREADY IN JAIL. THE INVESTIGATION REVEALED DRUGS FROM SPALDING COUNTY WERE BEING DISTRIBUTED FROM NORTH GEORGIA TO SOUTH ALABAMA. THE MAIN FOCUS OF THE PROBE WAS METH AND THE DATE RAPE DRUG—GHB.
ACCORDING TO POST 26 GA. STATE PATROL, ALISHA MARIE BEAVERS, AGE 21 DIED NEW YEAR’S DAY AT 840 WINDSWEEP FARM ROAD. THE DRIVER OF THE BIKE, WAYNE LEE CONAWAY, AGE 32 OF MILNER, WAS AIR FLIGHTED TO THE MACON MEDICAL CENTER.
CONAWAY TOLD UPSON S.O. MS. BEAVERS MOVED THE WRONG WAY ON THE SEAT AND IT CAUSED HIM TO LOSE CONTROL. THE 2004 HARLEY DAVIDSON MOTORCYCLE LEFT THE ROAD, HIT A FENCE AND BOTH WERE EJECTED.
