Stolen safe ends up in Carroll
by Meghann AckermanThe Times-Georgian
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A safe reported stolen from Douglasville was found in Villa Rica on Friday.

Carroll County Fire Rescue was called by Douglasville Police Sgt. Leland Hester to help remove a safe and cash register from a well on North Van Wert Road, Fire Rescue Deputy Chief Bud Benefield wrote in an e-mail.

Douglasville police Lt. J.R. Davidson said the items had been taken from the Auto Buff car wash on Douglas Boulevard in Douglasville on Dec. 21, 2007. Davidson described the safe as being quite large.

“We had information that led us to the well,” he said. “We used the Carroll County fire department to help get it out.”

Fire Lt. Michael Hopson was lowered into the well to secure both items to be brought up by crane.

“The well was about 35 feet to the water level with several feet of water below the 35 foot mark,” Benefield wrote in an e-mail. “Both items had wedged into the well.”

Davidson said police have suspects in the burglary and that it is still under investigation.

-- A Carrollton woman was charged with ecstasy possession Friday after she and two men were reported driving through a hunter’s leased land.

Sabrina Dawn Johns, 28, of 2088 Four Notch Road, was arrested Friday and charged with possession of less than an ounce of marijuana, a misdemeanor, and possession of ecstasy, a felony.

Carroll County sheriff’s Deputy Neal Whitlock responded to a complaint from a hunter who said he leased land near Horsley Mill and Crossplains Hulett roads for hunting. He told Whitlock that earlier in the day he had told some people in a red Chevrolet pickup truck to not drive in the area, but they were back.

According to Whitlock’s report, he found the red truck and first talked to the driver, Joshua Wheeler, who had warrants against him in Haralson County. Whitlock said that as he was handcuffing Wheeler, he allegedly saw Johns pass a cigarette box to the other man in the truck.

Whitlock said he patted the second man down and found the box. When he asked what was in it, the man allegedly responded that he did not know; Johns had just handed it to him. Inside the box, Whitlock allegedly found a joint and three pills. Johns allegedly admitted that the pills and joint were hers and the pills were ecstasy.

-- A Villa Rica man is facing charges after allegedly tattooing drug slang on a 15-year-old girl.

Joshua Steven Moran, 27, of 891 Old Villa Rica Road, was arrested Saturday and charged with tattooing a minor.

The girl’s mother told Carroll County Sheriff’s Cpl. Earl Head that on Friday, Moran had tattooed “420,” a slang term for marijuana, on her daughter’s left arm. The mother, a Temple resident, wanted to prosecute and said that Moran was next door at her sister’s house.

Head reported that he went next door, where the alleged tattooing took place, and found Moran. Moran allegedly told him that he gave the girl a tattoo, but thought she had permission from her mother.

-- A worker at a local plant was taken to Atlanta on Saturday for medical treatment after being injured by about a ton of powdered coffee creamer.

Carroll County Fire Rescue Deputy Chief Bud Benefield wrote in an e-mail that engines responded to Sugar Foods, 580 Industrial Court W. in Villa Rica, shortly before 3 p.m. where an employee was injured.

“A 28-year-old male employee was injured as a result of a 2,200-pound bag of powdered coffee creamer falling onto him when the material fell from an overhead crane as the material was being moved,” Benefield wrote. “The large bag of material struck the patient in the abdominal area knocking him to the floor and injuring him.”

Benefield said the man was reported to have spinal injuries and was taken to an Atlanta hospital by Air Ambulance.

-- A Saturday morning fire in Carrollton was believed to be started by burning food, according to Carroll County Fire Rescue.

It took Carroll County firefighters about half an hour to put out the fire at 55 Pawn Drive, according to Deputy Chief Bud Benefield.

“Extensive damage was reported to the kitchen, dining room, living room, garage and attic areas from fire and smoke,” Benefield wrote in an e-mail. “Moderate damage was reported in the remainder of the house from smoke and heat.”

The homeowner told firefighters she had been cooking right before the fire started around 11 a.m., according to Benefield.
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