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Swinging into action Remember, act, educate, spread the word SCC Foundation gears up for annual golf tourney, National Breast Cancer Awareness Month Page A6 THE SAMPSON INDE www.clintonnc.comPENDENT 50 cents F Vol. LXXXVII; Issue 201 Tuesday, October 11, 2011 Clinton, North Carolina F 12 pages Harrells man killed after crash Speed a factor in tragic accident By DOUG CLARK Willie Floyd Crumpler, 45, of was driving along Cannady Road early the crash was 75 mph, a factor, the Tomahawk Highway, Harrells, was Sunday morning when he came around report noted, in the accident. Assistant Editor killed after being ejected from his a curve too fast and struck a concrete Crumpler, it was noted, died at the A 45-year-old Harrells man became 1995 Lexus just 6.7 miles west of driveway culvert. The Lexus flipped scene. the 14th person killed on Sampson Harrells, on Cannady Road, around several times, eventually ejecting No other injuries were reported. County roadways this year when he 1:40 a.m., according to reports by N.C. Crumpler, who was not wearing a seat To reach Doug Clark call 910-592- lost control of his vehicle in a one-car Highway Patrol trooper R.S. Smith. belt. 8137 ext. 123 or email to sisports@ accident Sunday. Those reports note that Crumpler His estimated speed at the time of heartlandpublications.com. Sex case Hobbton cookbook Fugitive heads to featured in state magazine caught court in R’boro By DOUG CLARK this week Assistant Editor By DOUG CLARK A routine traffic stop in Roseboro Assistant Editor has led to the apprehension of a fugi- tive wanted on outstanding fraud and The case of a drug charges by the state of Maryland. Roseboro teen, Gine Marie Freburger, 47, of allegedly caught 378 Hairr Lane, in a sexual act Salemburg, was with a juvenile in arrested on the an incident that fugitive warrant took place March early Sunday morn- 2,will have his case ing after she was heard in Sampson pulled over for County Superior speeding. Court this week. Brailey According On March 2, PHOTO BY BILLY TODD to reports, a Matthew Joseph Brailey, 19, was Sampson County charged with second degree rape, Katie Vann looks through a copy of the Hobbton cookbook. Five recipes Freburger will be featured in November’s issue of Our State Magazine. Sheriff’s deputy crimes against nature and interrupt- stopped Freburger ing emergency communications after By BILLY TODD Katie Vann, Career Development at the ABC Store parking lot on North the incident. He was jailed under a coordinator at the high school, shared Staff Writer East Street in Roseboro around 4 a.m. $151,500 secured bond and has been that she worked along side Jo Ellen Sunday for the traffic violation. in the Sampson County Detention When the Hobbton High School PTO Naylor, past treasure and present vice When he ran a check of her Center since being charged. decided to publish a cookbook featuring president of the PTO and an alum of the driver’s license, it was discovered According to reports from the recipes from students, staff and alumni, class of 1988. “The cookbook was the that Freburger was wanted by the Sampson County Sheriff’s Office, the they did not realize it would receive brain child of Jo Ellen. I was the mouth Baltimore Police Department on the parent of the child involved walked statewide recognition. But it has. piece,” laughed Vann as she explained outstanding warrants. into the room of the child (aged 13-15) The school’s project will be a feature how the project came about. “We never She was taken into custody and is in and witnessed Brailey allegedly hav- in the November issue of Our State expected it to do as well as it has,” the Sampson County Detention Center ing sex with the teen. Magazine. The issue should be available asserted the faculty member. awaiting an extradition trial hearing. by Oct. 20. See LENGTH, Page A2 See RECIPES, Page A2 See WOMAN, Page A2 Over 500 helped Glimpse at new by Star food drive, districts expected community’s this month By CHRIS BERENDT of the public with insight into just how the current giving response Staff Writer Sampson County district By RUTHIE POPE Star Telephone, all their The public is expected map has to be modified employees, and the citi- in order to balance the Sports Writer to get its first look at zens that contributed,” new proposed county dis- population across the five It was a great day said Bruce Butler, chair- tricts before the month districts. In the past 10 in September at the man of the food bank, is out, with a tentative years, the population has Christian Food Bank of COURTESY PHOTO “and we give all the credit More than 500 families benefitted from Star timeline set for a hearing shifted to where there is Salemburg — the third to God. He made it all Telephone’s recent Sampson County food drive. to be held at the end of a deviation of well over Saturday of the month. possible.” The groceries were donated to the Christian October, followed by a fur- 10 percent between the Families with empty The food drive net- Food Bank of Salemburg and 506 families each ther review and vote on least- and most-populated cupboards at home were ted more than 5,000 received five bags during the September distrub- the newly-drawn districts districts, the measuring filing through the small pounds of groceries for tion. by the Sampson County stick for determining the building and returning the food bank, which is building and through the Jeff Shipp, commu- Board of Commissioners need for redistricting. home with five full bags open from 9 a.m. to noon parking lot. nity relations manager at its November meeting. Morgan is currently of groceries and a smile on the third Saturday of On that particular for Star, was thrilled by A redistricting plan working on the county of relief. each month. People in Saturday in September, the amount of donations, must be adopted by the maps to balance out the “If it hadn’t been for need of assistance arrive the food bank helped and said plans for anoth- beginning of December. population, while heed- Star Telephone’s food much earlier to be near 506 families, giving them er food drive next year Demographer John ing the feedback given drive we could have pos- the front of the line in each five bags of grocer- are already being talked Morgan, who works with to him by commissioners, sibly run out of food, case the food ever does ies filled with breads, about. firm Ogletree Deakins, assistant manager Susan and that’s never hap- run out. The line usu- canned goods, boxed recently presented com- pened before. We thank ally stretches around the goods, and meats. 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Thomas Barowsky, M.D. Jordan Shopping Center (910) 592-5379 Ray Best Board Certified Ophthalmologist 346A Northeast Blvd. Clinton, NC A2 THE SAMPSON INDEPENDENT Tuesday, October 11, 2011 Timeline Woman SIdigest tight for awaits extradition redistricting Continued from Page A1 Freburger was placed under a $10,000 secured bond and completion given a trial date of Oct. 14. According to the State Continued from Page A1 of Maryland, Freburger has Holder said. Citizens will have the two previous convictions chance to share additional com- — possession of marijuana Tomorrow’s Weather ments and concerns at the antici- (May 2003); and theft less pated hearing later this month, said than $300 (June 1997). COURTESY GRAPHIC Freburger has no pre- Holder, noting county staff expects New lines are currently being drawn for county commissioner feedback from residents to their vious convictions in North districts in Sampson County. Proposed maps are expected to be Carolina. representatives to continue as it released later this month. always does. over the ideal population); District necessary to maintain equal popula- “It is not unanticipated (commis- 2, represented by Billy Lockamy, tion among districts and that, if sioners) we’ll hear from constitu- has a population of 12,273 (413 the size and location of the black Length of ents in the meantime, in addition to people, or 3.3 percent, under); population continues to justify doing what the direction was given (by the District 3, represented by Jefferson so, two of the five districts continue board) at the first public hearing,” Strickland, has a population of to have a majority of black citizens. trial not said Holder. “They will all be relayed 13,778 (1,092 people, or 8.6 per- Citizens’ concerns that have to the demographer.” cent, over); District 4, represented already been presented regard the known The public hearing, held Sept. by John Blanton, has a population consent decree and the tight time- Continued from Page A1 30, was followed by a brief work Showers and rain likely of 11,636 (1,050 people, or 8.3 line for redistricting.