Deputies make multiple arrests at Silverwood Drive home
News July 26, 2019
Justin Brister
DAHLONEGA, GA. – An attempt by Lumpkin County Sheriff’s deputies, Hall County deputies and agents with the Appalachian Regional Drug Enforcement Office to serve warrants on Justin Brister at 44 Silverwood Drive Wednesday ended in the arrest of Brister and six other individuals.
Brister had multiple warrants out of Hall and Lumpkin counties. When officers arrived at the residence, one subject was immediately detained, and another male subject released an aggressive dog on law enforcement and the male ran back inside.
Neither the dog nor the officers were injured. Once the occupants saw the number of law enforcement officers present and that no escape was possible, a total of four occupants came out and surrendered.
While checking the residence for other occupants, officers located two more individuals hiding inside. The following individuals were arrested:
- Donald Nalley, 34, of Dahlonega, for Hindering Apprehension of a Criminal;
- Wesley Martin, 27, of Dahlonega, for Hindering Apprehension of a Criminal and Aggravated Assault on a Police Officer;
- Jessica Brown,39, of Dawsonville, for Hindering Apprehension of a Criminal;
- Tamera Brown,30, of Jasper, for Hindering Apprehension of a Criminal;
- Christopher Strickland, 39, of Cumming, for Aggravated Assault on a Police Officer;
- Quinton Bailey, 41, of Dawsonville, for Aggravated Assault on a Police Officer;
- Justin Brister, 29, of Dahlonega for Aggravated Assault of a Police Officer, Possession of Methamphetamine, Fleeing Attempting to Elude Police, Reckless Driving, Operating of Vehicle with Improper License Plate, Tire Requirement, No Passing Zone, Failure to Maintain Lane, Stop Sign, and multiple charges pending in Hall County.
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Donald Nalley
Jessica Brown
Wesley Martin
Tamera Brown
Christopher Strickland
K9 Diesel aids in locating and apprehending fleeing suspect
News June 18, 2019
DAHLONEGA, Ga. – Lumpkin County Sheriff’s Office K-9 Diesel helped deputies apprehend Joshua Tharp last week and confiscate a quantity of methamphetamine, counterfeit $100 bills and a weapon after a high-speed chase on Cleveland Highway and Mt. Zion Church Road.
Deputy Damon Nix spotted Tharp’s Chrysler Sebring. The tag reader system identified the owner as having a warrant out of White County. Nix attempted to stop the vehicle which then increased speed and began to flee northbound on Cleveland Highway.
The vehicle then turned left onto Mt. Zion Church Road and the driver tossed a black bag out the window before pulling into a private driveway and fleeing on foot into a heavily wooded area.
Deputy Morgan and his K9 Diesel located the suspect who refused to comply until he was advised the K9 would be released and would bite. He was then handcuffed and transported to the Lumpkin County Detention Center.
In searching Tharp, Nix found a syringe that contained suspected methamphetamine and a green leafy substance suspected to be marijuana.
Diesel was also able to locate the suitcase thrown from the vehicle which contained suspected crystal meth, an electronic scale, eight suspected counterfeit $100 bills.
A female in the Tharp vehicle was identified as Justice Dermire. She was transported to the Lumpkin County Detention Center. Another male in the vehicle could not be located.
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UPDATE: No charges yet in Saturday’s shooting death in Dahlonega
News April 23, 2019
Axel Willis
DAHLONEGA, Ga. – The Georgia Bureau of Investigation and Lumpkin County Sheriff’s Office are investigating Saturday’s shooting death of Jason Burnett, 43, of Dahlonega.
The shooting took place at 156 Bill Anderson Road in Dahlonega, the home of Axel Willis, 23, of Lumpkin County. Willis was initially charged with possession of marijuana pending further investigation. The shooting is believed to be the result of a domestic assault at the residence.
As of Tuesday morning, Enotah Judicial Circuit District Attorney Jeff Langley had not filed charges on the shooting and Willis has been released on bond.
Lumpkin County Sheriff Stacy Jarrard said his prayers go out to the family and friends affected by this tragedy.
Fetch Your News will have more information as it becomes available.
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Car accident in Lumpkin results in fatality
Business October 2, 2018
LUMPKIN CO., GA
A motor-vehicle accident at the intersection of Cleveland Highway and Copper Mines Road, on October 2, has resulted in a fatality, according to reports.
The two vehicle-crash included a black 2004 Toyota Tacoma and a gray 2012 Honda Pilot. The driver of the Tacoma was Austin Durham (19) of Cleveland, GA, and the driver of the Honda Pilot was Dawsonville resident, William Dorris (72). Audie Dorris (59) of Dawsonville, GA, was the right-seat passenger.
In a report released by Georgia State Patrol Sergeant, Casey Coffee, Durham was traveling west in the left eastbound lane of SR 115, and Dorris was traveling east in the left eastbound lane of SR 115, when Durham failed to maintain his lane of travel and was driving on the wrong side of the roadway. According to one source, Durham had fallen asleep while driving home from work when the front of his Tacoma struck Dorris’ Pilot; the area of impact was in the left eastbound lane of SR 115.
After impact, the Tacoma entered an uncontrolled, clockwise rotation, before coming to a stop partially in westbound and eastbound lanes of SR 115, while facing northeast. The Pilot rotated in an uncontrolled, counter-clockwise direction, while it exited the roadway and stopped facing northeast, partially in the westbound lane and north shoulder of SR 115.
Durham was transported to Northeast Georgia Medical Center for treatment of non life-threatening injuries. He was not wearing a seat belt at the time of the crash and will be charged with: Second Degree Vehicular Homicide, Failure to Maintain Lane, Driving on the Wrong Side of the Roadway, and for not wearing his seat belt.
According to eye witnesses, William and Audie Dorris were life-flighted to NEGMC for treatment of serious injuries; Audie Dorris passed away after arriving at the hospital. Both occupants were wearing their seatbelts.
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Teacher says Blackwell “was a troubled kid and serious threat”
News August 15, 2018
DAHLONEGA, Ga. – Teachers and students at Lumpkin County Middle School were afraid of 17-year-old Kaylor Blackwell. One math teacher refused to be in the same classroom with the volatile teen and another refused to be in the same class unless Pat Garner, a math teacher and former criminal investigator with the Lumpkin County Sheriff’s Office was in a co-taught class with her.
“He was a troubled kid and a serious threat,” Garner testified Tuesday in Lumpkin County Superior Court. “He’s explosive. He strikes fear in people. It’s just the way he is and he knows that and likes doing it.”
Garner is a defense witness in the trial of his brother, Tim Garner, who is charged with child cruelty and simple battery in connection with a 2017 incident at the Lumpkin County alternative school in which he is caught on a surveillance camera grabbing Blackwell by the throat and dragging him along a cafeteria table.
Tim Garner said he acted in self defense. “I was in fear of a head butt or something like that or carrying something,” he told WSB-TV.
Pat Garner spent nearly two hours on the witness stand relating how he had essentially been assigned to teaching and protecting students and teachers at the middle school from Blackwell for two years.
He said he first became aware of Blackwell in 2012 when the teen was a seventh grader and he was called to a meeting in 2012 where one math teacher refused to be in the same class with Blackwell and another would be in the class but only if it was a co-taught class and Garner was in the class with her. “They wouldn’t do it without me being in the room,” he said.
He also testified there were “numerous occasions” when he had to step in between Blackwell and a teacher or another student. “It was kind of an ongoing thing. On a couple of occasions, it became quite severe,” he said.
One incident took place near the end of the teen’s seventh grade year when Garner said Blackwell threatened to stab a special education student in the eye with a pencil. In another incident, Garner said, “He, “blew up at a teacher and came toward her. I got in between them and he was calling her a Fing B word in a real threatening tone. I got him outside and they sent him home.”
Garner said, Blackwell’s mother signed paperwork agreeing to send him to alternative school the following year, but when the new school year started, he was allowed to return for the eighth grade without going to alternative school.
Near the end of his eighth grade year, another serious incident took place.
Garner said there was a geometry project where students had to draw a house to scale. When he turned his project in, the teacher asked him about several rectangles he drew in the bottom corner.
“He told her that was N….. town. I told him to get out of the room. There were two African American females in the room at the time and one of them started crying.”
Garner added that one of the boys in the class called him a racist as he was walking out. “He replied very loud that’s where all the Fing N word live.” Following that incident, Blackwell was finally sent to alternative school.
On cross examination, Assistant District Attorney Faizah Shabazz got Garner to say despite all the incidents of explosive outbursts, he never witnessed Blackwell physically strike anyone.
Chief Superior Court Judge Stanley Gunter said the trial would resume Sept. 4 at 9 a.m.
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Lumpkin County Board Of Education On Millage Rate
News August 14, 2018LUMPKIN CO., GA
Lumpkin County Board of Education members voted to keep the current millage rate of 16.819 during the BOE meeting on Monday, August 13, instead of accepting a rollback millage rate of 16.321, which will result in a property tax increase for Lumpkin County.
Before the board held the vote, Superintendent Dr. Robert Brown explained that the millage rate is based on anticipated revenue for 2019. By setting the millage rate at 16.819 instead of the rate of 16.321, Brown expects to raise an additional $400,000. He asserted that the additional anticipated funds would allow Lumpkin County teachers, as well as any other certified school employee, to receive what he described as a “much needed raise.”
Brown also pointed out that Lumpkin County’s current property values are comparable to the 2013 values; the declining digest has stabilized, and even increased, over the past couple of years. Since the millage rate is relative to property values, property taxes will increase as well. He estimated that it will cost roughly $50 per every $100,000 of Fair Market Value of the whole, “the reason that your property taxes will be higher, is because your property has been assessed at a higher value. Property values go up, millage stays the same, that’s where the increase comes from.”
Allison Martin, a Lumpkin County resident, expressed her concern over the tax increase, and how it will impact residents who do not qualify for the senior tax exemption.
Lumpkin County Board of Education members from left to right: Craig Poore, Lynn Sylvester, Bobby Self, Dr. Rob Brown, and Jim McClure.
“Your decision to go above the rollback rate is another $65 for our family, just for the 4.98 mil, which does not include the shift for the [senior tax] exemption…those of us in the under 65 [age group] cannot continue to finance a failing tax system. Please do not raise our taxes.”
Lumpkin County Commissioner Bobby Mayfield spoke in favor of the millage rate increase because, he said, the pay raise will help educators to “manage the cost of living.” He also explained that the pay raise will make Lumpkin Schools more competitive in comparison to surrounding counties when hiring and keeping educators.
Another Lumpkin County resident, who is a former special education teacher, questioned if the school board has explored alternative solutions to raise revenues for the schools, “I wonder why there’s never any idea of trying another way to raise revenue,” she asked. She went on to suggest a marketing campaign that would encourage residents who qualify to, “donate some of their tax exemption back to the school system”.
Board members present include: Craig Poore, Lynn Sylvester, Bobby Self, Dr. Brown, and Jim McClure.
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Teens charged with robbery, assault, auto theft
News July 18, 2018
Samuel Slaydon Spiers
LUMPKIN COUNTY, Ga. – Two teenagers face serious charges, including assault, robbery and theft in connection with items being stolen from unlocked cars parked at the Sherman Green Apartments on Butler Street in Dahlonega Tuesday.
Emmanuel Flores, 18 of Milwood, and Samuel Slaydon Spiers, 18, who lists his home as New Orleans were arrested Tuesday after a variety of items, including credit cards were stolen.
The teens also allegedly stole a 2015 Dodge Ram 3500 pickup truck which they used as a getaway car and which ultimately led to their arrests.
Emmanuel Flores
Maddox Turner, a student at the University of North Georgia, spotted his father’s stolen pickup truck parked near Duncan Donuts and confronted the two suspects. One of them pointed a gun at Turner and he was forced to back off as the teens sped away.
Lt. Alan Roach, with the Lumpkin County Sheriff’s Office told Fetch Your News, “We don’t anticipate any other arrests but the investigation is ongoing.”
Roach added, “All of the vehicles that were entered were unlocked, so we would like to remind everyone to lock their vehicles and take their valuables with them.”
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Inmate Back in Jail After Escape During Storm
News September 14, 2017
Steven Smith
DAHLONEGA, Ga. – An escaped inmate is back in the Lumpkin County jail today after he escaped from custody just as Tropical Storm Irma was wreaking havoc on much of north Georgia.
Steven Smith, 27, of Habersham County was arrested Aug. 28 and charged with possession of dangerous drugs. He was taken to Northeast Georgia Medical Center in Gainesville on August 12 where it is believed he was suffering from appendicitis.
Lumpkin County Sheriff Stacy Jarrard said Smith walked away from the hospital and was seen on video tape calling someone from a nearby convenience to come pick him up. Authorities were able to trace the call and located Smith at a campground north of Helen.
Jarrard credited the U.S. Marshall’s Service Fugitive Task Force, Lumpkin County Sheriff’s Office Criminal Investigations Division and K-9 unit and the Appalachian Regional Drug Enforcement Office for their quick apprehension of the fugitive.
In additional to the original drug charge, which is a felony, Smith could face an additional five years if convicted of felony escape.
Jarrard said Smith offered no resistance when he was recaptured Wednesday.
Asked if Smith was considered dangerous, Jarrard said, “Anytime someone escapes, I consider them dangerous because of their determination to remain free even though his background doesn’t show any violent crimes.”
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Lumpkin Man Charged with Aggravated Assault, Battery
News August 14, 2017
Patrick Raymond Cadieux
DAHLONEGA, Ga. – Patrick Raymond Cadieux, 25, of Dahlonega was arrested Friday and charged with two counts of family violence, aggravated assault, battery and possession of a firearm during the commission of a crime.
Deputies from the Lumpkin County Sheriff’s Office were called to 43 Imperial Drive where they met with Alissa Rose Butcher, 19, of Dahlonega.
According to the incident report, Butcher said she and Cadieux had been arguing all day and when she tried to leave, he grabbed her by the hair and pulled her back into the residence. When she tried to run again, he again pulled her back inside and choked her until she couldn’t breathe then finally released her. When she ran a third time, she said he fired a gun at her and she ran into a nearby Air Stream camper and called 9-1-1.
Authorities confiscated a Taurus 40-caliber, a spent shell casing and brought them to the evidence locker. They booked Cadieux into the Lumpkin County Detention Center.
Deputies Arrest Man with Weapons and Heroin
News August 8, 2017
DAHLONEGA, Ga. – The report of a suspicious truck left abandoned with a dog inside led to a foot chase, an arrest and the confiscation of 19 grams of heroin and a sawed off shotgun Tuesday.
The incident began when a resident reported a Dodge pickup truck parked and seemingly abandoned on Chestatee Shoals Drive off Cavender Creek Road. The truck was parked on the single-lane in a way that caused other vehicles to have to drive off the road to get around it.
The Lumpkin County Sheriff’s Office who responded contacted the owner by phone and learned the truck had been taken under suspicious circumstances.
Steven Smith arrested in Lumpkin County.
While the deputy was investigating, another vehicle arrived and stopped further down the road. As the deputy drove towards the vehicle, he spotted a male walking down the road carrying a bag that was discovered to contain a sawed off shotgun, 19 grams of heroin and a pistol.
Deputies with the Lumpkin County Sheriff’s Office, Appalachian Regional Drug Enforcement Office, Georgia State Patrol and White County Sheriff’s Office participated in the foot pursuit that resulted in 27-year-old Steven Smith.
UPDATE: Smith has been charged with multiple felonies, including possession of a certain type of prohibited weapon, possession of a weapon during the commission of a crime, sale and manufacture of a controlled substance and criminal use of an article with altered identification. He is also charged with one misdemeanor, possession of drug related objects.
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Dahlonega Man Leads Deputy on High-Speed Chase
News June 19, 2017
Jason Graham charged with DUI.
DAHLONEGA, Ga. – A Dahlonega man led Lumpkin County Sheriff’s Office Deputy Mark Sutton on a high speed chase Friday night that ended when the man fled from his car and was found hiding in a briar patch by the deputy’s canine just off Robert Jones Road.
Jones’ report said he first spotted a 1997 Chrysler Sebring driven by 47-year-old Jason Wesley Graham pass by him and the vehicle had no license tag. He then noticed Graham weaving in and out of traffic. When he tried to initiate a stop, the man turned onto Burnt Stand Road and accelerated up to 85 miles per hour.
The vehicle made an abrupt turn onto Robert Jones Road and drove into a driveway at Box number 522, traveled through the driveway and into an open field. Graham ignored the deputy’s commands to stay in the vehicle and fled into the woods where he was eventually located by the canine and surrendered.
Deputy Sutton said the man smelled of alcohol and admitted drinking but declined further comment.
He was arrested and charged with multiple traffic violations, including DUI, failure to maintain lane, reckless driving, speeding and cancelled registration. The deputy said he also would seek warrants for obstruction, fleeing and attempting to elude a police officer.
UNG Student Charged with Strong Arm Rape
News May 9, 2017
DAHLONEGA, Ga. – The Lumpkin County Sheriff’s Office arrested University of North Georgia student Jesse Luke Clements, 22, Thursday and charged him with the strong arm rape of a 20-year-old UNG co-ed at the Bellamy Apartments just off the Dahlonega campus.
According to authorities the unidentified female victim knew Clements and invited him back to her apartment where the alleged rape took place. The victim did not report the incident to the sheriff’s office until the next day. Deputies went to his apartment at 82 College Lane and arrested him without incident.
Clements Facebook page indicates he attended LaFayette High School in LaFayette, Ga. and, in addition to being a student at UNG, is also employed by the school.
He is currently being held without bond at the Lumpkin County Detention Center.
James Carver charged with battery, false imprisonment
News October 1, 2019
James Carver
DAHLONEGA, Ga. – Lumpkin County Sheriff’s Office deputies arrested a Dahlonega man last week charged with battery and false imprisonment.
According to the arrest report, Michelle Louise Carver said her husband, James Douglas Carver, 37, had physically and verbally abused her during a domestic dispute at their residence on Ben Higgins Road.
She said her husband is always been abusive but she has never reported it because she was afraid of him. She added that in the most recent incident, he was mad and began punching holes in the wall and making threats toward her, telling her to “sleep with one eye open.” When she tried to leave, he pushed her and held her down on the ground.
When he let her go, she tried to leave in her vehicle, he followed her outside and jumped in front of her car to block her from leaving. He then jumped inside the car and continued to argue. When he finally let her go, she went to the sheriff’s office to report the incident.
Deputies went to the couple’s residence but did not find him. He was arrested Sept. 24 on a warrant.
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Authorities locate pickup truck connected to missing woman
News September 24, 2019DAHLONEGA, Ga. – Authorities today located a Ford Ranger pickup truck they believe is connected to Hannah Bender, the 21-year-old Lumpkin County woman reported missing Sept. 14.
A murder warrant was issued last week for her former boyfriend 21-year-old Austin Todd Stryker.
Lumpkin County Sheriff Stacy Jarrard said Monday the GBI, U.S. Marshals, and law enforcement agencies in Dawson and Forsyth counties have joined in the search for Stryker and a 2000 white Ford Explorer, license plate PXH 4402.
Austin Stryker
Stryker was last seen with 78-year-old Jerry Harper who they believe is the owner of the Ford Ranger recovered today. Jarrard named Harper as a person of interest.
Lumpkin County Sheriff’s deputies searched an area between Lumpkin and Dawson counties Saturday and located bloody clothing and other items believed to belong to the missing woman.
She was reported missing by her mother Carol Gilreath Sept. 14.
Anyone with information about Ms. Bender or Austin Todd Stryker is asked to contact Lumpkin County Sheriff’s Office Captain Marcus Sewell at 706-974-6824.
“I would like to ask everyone to keep Ms. Bender and her family in their prayers,” Jarrard said.
Jerry Harper
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Lumpkin County Tax Commissioner announces retirement in 2020
Featured, Politics July 30, 2019
LUMPKIN CO., GA
Lumpkin County Tax Commissioner, Rachel Pruitt, has announced that she will retire from her position as Tax Commissioner once the 2019 term has ended.
After working in the Tax Commissioner’s office for 30 years, and serving as the Lumpkin County Tax Commissioner since 2009, Pruitt told Fetch Your News that it was “time to turn the reins over;” she also expressed her gratitude towards Lumpkin County for electing her to serve as their tax commissioner for the past decade in an interview with FYN, ” I have really enjoyed serving Lumpkin County as their Tax Commissioner and I hope I have made them proud and are leaving them with a good legacy. Helping taxpayers with payment plans to pay their property taxes or helping them with their complex registrations issues makes me feel that I have served them well, with a true Servants Heart.”
Pruitt said her most important accomplishment since being elected tax commissioner was succeeding in increasing the tax collection rate up, “We succeeded and we have kept the yearly collection rate in all future years at a 99 % rate or better.”
So far, there is at least one candidate who plans on running for Pruitt’s position in 2020 – Mike Young. He currently works in the tax commissioner’s office and he has Pruitt’s full support, ”I have been training him in all aspects of the office, and there is a lot to learn. He has my full support [running for tax commissioner] and I wish him well.”
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White, Lumpkin authorities search for missing woman
News April 17, 2019DAHLONEGA, Ga. – Lt. Alan Roach in the Lumpkin County Sheriff’s Office issued the following press release:
On April 15 at approximately 6 a.m. The White County Sheriff’s Office responded to a call for service involving a missing person near the White/Lumpkin County line on Sandy Flats Road and Dugas Road. Once on scene, The White County Sheriff’s Office requested The Lumpkin County Sheriff’s Office to assist with the call. The missing person is 34-year-old, Belinda Butterfield from Canton Georgia. Belinda was last seen wearing white shorts and a pink tank top swimming in the waters of the Tesnatee creek in White County. This creek runs into the Chestatee River.
The Georgia Department of Natural Resources also assisted with this call and will be conducting future searches from the air along the waterways and shoreline associated with this incident. These flights will continue until the Georgia DNR feels that they are no longer needed. Please if anyone has any information regarding this incident please contact Inv. Chad Edwards with the White County Sheriff’s Office at 706-865-5177 ext. 251 or by email at [email protected] . Or you can contact The Lumpkin County Sheriff’s Office investigator that is assisting with the case, Inv. Aaron Norrell at 706-482-2631, or by email at [email protected]