Monday, May 20, 2013
A Clarke County judge rejected a request from William Heaton, who has been charged in the Emily Bowman hit-and-run accident, to remove his ankle monitor and move to Bartow County.
A Clarke County judge rejected a petition from the man accused of running over Emily Bowman in an Athens hit-and-run accident to remove his ankle monitor and leave Oconee County. A judge last week denied William Wilson Heaton's request to remove the monitor and move back to Bartow County with his grandfather, according to WSB-TV. Heaton lived in Rydal and worked in the farming industry when Bowman was hit the night of Feb. 16, according to his Cartersville attorney, Tony Perotta. WSB-TV reported Heaton made the request so he could return to work in order to pay for his legal expenses. But he must remain in Oconee County with his mother. Bowman, a former Kennesaw State University student and Woodstock High School graduate, was hospitalized…
See who was arrested and the crimes reported in our daily blotter. The following arrests information was supplied by the Bartow County Sheriff's Office. It does not indicate a conviction.
The people listed on the Bartow County jail's intake report were arrested and booked into the jail but are not convicted, therefore are presumed innocent until the court system settles their cases. The documents, including incident and accident reports, were provided by the Bartow County Sheriff's Office and Cartersville Police Department. Cartersville Patch assumes the reports are error free and apologizes in advance for any incorrect information. Contact brande.poulnot@patch.com with questions about this police blotter. Coming to Cartersville Patch via mobile? Click here and scroll down to see the mug shots and reports. Tell us what you think in the comments, share your photos and videos, and don’t miss any of the local news you care …
Sunday, May 19, 2013
See who was arrested and the crimes reported in our daily blotter. The following arrests information was supplied by the Bartow County Sheriff's Office. It does not indicate a conviction.
The people listed on the Bartow County jail's intake report were arrested and booked into the jail but are not convicted, therefore are presumed innocent until the court system settles their cases. The documents, including incident and accident reports, were provided by the Bartow County Sheriff's Office and Cartersville Police Department. Cartersville Patch assumes the reports are error free and apologizes in advance for any incorrect information. Contact brande.poulnot@patch.com with questions about this police blotter. Coming to Cartersville Patch via mobile? Click here and scroll down to see the mug shots and reports. Tell us what you think in the comments, share your photos and videos, and don’t miss any of the local news you care …
Cartersville Patch user Ryan Ruggiero captured these shots of the Saturday incident northbound between Emerson and Cartersville.
Updated 5 p.m. The owner of the 2003 Ford Windstar that was burned down to its frame told authorities she was driving northbound on Interstate 75 about 5 p.m. when the vehicle started having mechanical problems, according to the Bartow County Sheriff's Office report, attached. The van started smoking, so she pulled to the shoulder, but when she got out noticed sparks under the vehicle. It then burst into flames, partially in the roadway, according to the report. The frame and rear door panel were the only parts of the van left. Original Report Cartersville Patch user Ryan Ruggiero captured these photos of a Saturday car fire that shut down traffic northbound between Emerson and Cartersville. Bartow County Fire Department couldn't …
Saturday, May 18, 2013
Phillip Rodger Bennett, 58, has been charged with two counts of aggravated assault with intent to murder in connection with the blaze at his neighbor's Boatner Avenue house.
Editor's Note: The video clip above contains explicit language. Bartow County Sheriff's Office provided this recording of the call Marty Corbitt made to 911 on Wednesday as his neighbor, Phillip Rodger Bennett, 58, allegedly set Corbitt's 18 Boatner Avenue home on fire. For some time, the neighbors had been at odds about Corbitt's high grass. Displeased with his neighbor's lawn and worried that a confrontation between the two a week earlier would send him back to prison, Bennett allegedly doused the house with gasoline and lit it while Corbitt and his 3-year-old daughter were inside. In connection with the incident, Cartersville Police Department authorities have charged Bennett, of 17 Boatner Avenue, with a number of crimes, including …
See who was arrested and the crimes reported in our daily blotter. The following arrests information was supplied by the Bartow County Sheriff's Office. It does not indicate a conviction.
The people listed on the Bartow County jail's intake report were arrested and booked into the jail but are not convicted, therefore are presumed innocent until the court system settles their cases. The documents, including incident and accident reports, were provided by the Bartow County Sheriff's Office and Cartersville Police Department. Cartersville Patch assumes the reports are error free and apologizes in advance for any incorrect information. Contact brande.poulnot@patch.com with questions about this police blotter. Coming to Cartersville Patch via mobile? Click here and scroll down to see the mug shots and reports. Tell us what you think in the comments, share your photos and videos, and don’t miss any of the local news you care …
Friday, May 17, 2013
Family members concerned about the child told loss prevention officers his uncle likes to dress in drag, and likely is the "woman" they confronted and accused of trying to take $600 in merchandise.
A shoplifting suspect who abandoned a 5-year-old boy getting away from loss prevention officers looked like a woman, but may have, in fact, been a man. Walmart security confronted who they thought was a woman about 3:45 p.m. Thursday, according to the Bartow County Sheriff's Office incident report, attached. They say she had tried to leave the store with numerous items, collectively valued at $600, and fled through the Garden Center exit into a black Mitsubishi Galant. "(A loss prevention officer) displayed the security footage to me of the encounter with the female and I observed the female running out of the Garden Center, pushing a buggy, with the (loss prevention) staff behind her," reported a BCSO deputy. "I observed (the) juvenile …
See who was arrested and the crimes reported in our daily blotter. The following arrests information was supplied by the Bartow County Sheriff's Office. It does not indicate a conviction.
The people listed on the Bartow County jail's intake report were arrested and booked into the jail but are not convicted, therefore are presumed innocent until the court system settles their cases. The documents, including incident and accident reports, were provided by the Bartow County Sheriff's Office and Cartersville Police Department. Cartersville Patch assumes the reports are error free and apologizes in advance for any incorrect information. Contact brande.poulnot@patch.com with questions about this police blotter. Coming to Cartersville Patch via mobile? Click here and scroll down to see the mug shots and reports. Tell us what you think in the comments, share your photos and videos, and don’t miss any of the local news you care …
Bartow County sheriff's authorities are seeking another man in connection with an early-morning incident off Cline Smith Road in Cartersville.
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Friday, May 17
Bartow County Sheriff's Office deputies arrested a Cartersville man they say was with another man, who eluded authorities, during early-morning car break-ins. Sheriff Clark Millsap said in a release deputies were dispatched to the Churchill Downs subdivision off Cline Smith Road just after 3 a.m. Friday to a call about a prowler. Deputies checking the area heard a loud noise, then spotted James Murrell Wright, 37, of Cartersville, and another man allegedly try to flee in a 1988 Ford Crown Victoria. The car spun out and the two occupants fled on foot. Deputies located Wright, allegedly hiding in some bushes at a neighborhood home, and he was arrested. Authorities have identified the other man and issued warrants for his arrest, and his name…
The man accused of torching his neighbors' home was treated overnight for burns to his hands and arms in Grady Hospital's Burn Unit, released from the hospital and jailed.
Updated 5 p.m. Bennett was released from the hospital and taken to the Bartow County jail by 4 p.m., according to sheriff's office Sgt. Jonathan Rogers, who said Bennett's mug shot would be forthcoming. Police were unable to fingerprint Bennett due to his "severe" burns, according to a supplemental CPD incident report released today and attached. Original Report The man accused of torching a family's home in a quiet Cartersville neighborhood was burned in the process, Cartersville Police Department Capt. Mark Camp said. Phillip Rodger Bennett, 58, of Boatner Avenue, who was arrested yesterday by U.S. Marshals in Murphy, N.C., waived extradition and was transported back to the Cartersville Police Department, where he was examined by …
ray jay
4:01 pm on Monday, May 20, 2013
Thanks ryan for such quality pictures of smoke. more ›