Voter Fraud Arrests Made in Madison County
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November 2, 2011 VOL. 48 NO. 13 Madison County’s Award-Winning Newspaper State’s Unemployment Voter Fraud Arrests Rate Shows Slight Made In Madison County Improvement Warrants Issued In Madison County By Jacob Bembry for information on who son, 2 counts; Mel By Lazaro Aleman Greene Publishing, Inc. has been arrested and Raines, 7 counts; Ray- Special from Greene Arrests have been the allegations. mon Williams, 2 counts; Publishing, Inc. made in a voter fraud We have confirmed Shalonda Brinson, 9 Florida’s jobless case in Madison County. from a reliable source counts; and Earnie Jhn- rate dropped a fraction At press time, the that warrants were is- son, 11 counts. of a percentage point to newspaper was waiting sued for Supervisor of The allegations ap- 10.6 percent in Septem- on information from Elections Jada parently stem from a ber, after being stuck at the Florida Department Williams, 17 counts; November 2010 election 10.7 percent for the three of Law Enforcement on School Board Member when Tina Johnson was previous months. this case. Tina Johnson, 10 elected over Ricky Hen- Meanwhile, in Madi- Please visit counts; Judy Crumity, 4 derson in a School son County, it dropped a www.greenepublish- counts; Laverne Board race.. fraction of a percentage ing.com or Greene Pub- Haynes, 2 counts; a Mr. More arrests were Jada Woods Williams point, from 12.6 percent lishing’s Facebook page Tina Johnson Roberson or Mr. Robin- reported to be coming. in August to 12.5 percent in September and in Jef- ferson County, the job- County less rate remained Four Law Agencies Happy Halloween steady at 8.9 percent;. Florida’s jobless rate Take Part In Crime was 1.5 percentage points higher than the Please see Saturation Patrol Rate Unemployment, Page 3A Down Sexual By Fran Hunt Special from ECB Offender Publishing, Inc. According to the Registers Florida Department of Law Enforcement, the crime rate has gone Greene Publishing, Inc. Photo by Emerald Greene, Oct. 29, 2011 With New down in Madison Coun- The Madison Police Department has a car pulled ty and gone down slight- Address over during a saturation patrol on Saturday evening, ly in the state. By Jacob Bembry Oct. 29. According to Madison County Sheriff’s Cpl. In Madison County, Greene Publishing, Inc. Jason Whitfield, the Sheriff’s Office, MPD, Florida in 2010 the total crime Donald Highway Patrol and Jefferson County Sheriff’s Office index (crimes commit- S p e i g h t took part in the patrol from 9 p.m. Saturday evening ted) was 348 in the first has regis- until 1 a.m. Sunday, Oct. 30. A total of 35 citations six months of the year tered as a Greene Publishing, Inc. Photo by Kristin Finney October 31, 2011 were issued for violations including speeding, hav- and in 2011 the total sexual of- ing no driver’s license and faulty vehicle equipment. Evie Smith was toasty warm in her cow costume crime index was 291 for f e n d e r One drug and DUI arrest was made. The saturation on Halloween night. For more Halloween pictures, the first six months of with a patrol was part of the “Drive Sober, Get Pulled Over” check out the November 4th edition of the Madison the year, which shows a change of address. Campaign which ran from Oct. 25-Nov. 1. Enterprise Recorder. 16.4 percent decrease in Speight’s new ad- crime. dress is listed at 206 SE There were no mur- Conway Quarters Way in Pirates Invade ders in 2010 or 2011; Madison. Lake Park there were three forcible Speight, who has rapes in 2010 and two also used the name Dan- Ahoy Matey! Of Madison forcible rapes in 2011; ny Fisher, is a 67-year-old there were nine rob- black male, who stands beries in 2010 and four 5’11” tall and weighs 205 robberies in 2011; there pounds. He has black was 66 aggravated as- hair and brown eyes. saults in 2010 compared Please see Sex to 58 aggravated assaults Offender, Page 3A in 2011; there were 100 burglaries in 2010 and 82 November burglaries in 2011; there were 159 larceny cases Is Hire A in 2010 and 137 larceny cases in 2011; and there Hometown were 11 car thefts in 2010 and eight vehicle thefts Hero in 2011. In 2010 Madison Month County has a percentage cleared rate (cleared is Honor. Loyalty. Re- the percentage of cases spect. Integrity. These where there were ar- are only four of the core rests and convictions) of values instilled in our 41.1 percent, however, in nation’s military veter- 2011 the percentage ans – and four of the rea- cleared rate had de- sons why November is creased slightly to 38.1 “Hire a Hometown percent. Hero” Month in North Following the same Florida. There are over trend as the past several 970,000 veterans under years in Jefferson Coun- the age of 65 in Florida, ty, the crime rate has who are ready, willing Greene Publishing, Inc. Photo by Lynette Norris, Monday, October 31, 2011 gone down again and and able to go to work to- the cleared rate has day. In North Florida AAARRGH! On Halloween morning, the staff of Lake Park Nursing Center was transformed into a bevy once again gone up for Workforce’s six-county of beautiful lady pirates. With their mascot “Jaws” (AKA Parker, the resident therapy dog, in costume) wait- the first six months of region alone, there are ing to nab anyone who walked the plank, the pirates lined up outside the Lake Park facility to wish everyone 2011. 504 eligible-for-hire vet- a Happy Halloween. Left to right: Galina Medders, Judy Bentley, Beverly Fletcher, Ronda Garner, Candice Please see Crime Please see Hero, Webb, Parker the dog in the shark costume, Connie Walker, Christina Brooks, Melanie Seago, Ashley Sevor Rate, Page 3A Page 3A and Karen Kocan. Index Local Weather 2 Sections, 28 Pages Around Madison 4-8A Sports 11-12A Path Of Faith B Section Legals 15A Classifieds 14A Health 13A Greenville 10A From Page One 3A 2A_Layout 1 11/1/11 9:02 AM Page 1 2A • Madison County Carrier www.greenepublishing.com wednesday, november 2, 2011 Viewpoints & opinions Hot National Joe Boyles Questions, Security Guest Columnist Hot Topics By David Abercrombie, Doubling Down MCMH CEO I want to be clear about some- times, but rather, in good times when thing from the onset – I’m not a gam- they create programs that cannot be What are some planned medical bler. While I have no problem with a sustained during inevitable down- friendly wager over a golf match, I turns. Businessmen understand this services that the Madison County don’t frequent casinos; I’ve never bet but politicians, who are always Memorial Hospital will implement on a horse race; you’ll never find me spending other people’s money rather at JCKC; and I never, never, never than their own, never get it. when the new hospital is built? waste my time or money on the lot- So now, it is 2011 and the presi- Of all questions you have asked, this the two rooms of each. This design will tery. I don’t believe in those things. dent is making the case for his reelec- may be the best. Not because there is allow a parent to stay in an adjoining It’s not in my blood. tion next year … by doubling down some swish-bang answer, but precisely room with a hospitalized child; or a fam- Now that I’ve got that off my with another stimulus. This one is because there isn’t. ily member to stay with a family hospice chest, I do know what “doubling valued at $447 billion and of course, We wanted the patient care to be patient. Larger hospitals have ICU down” means. That’s what happens isn’t called “stimulus” because that centered on simple concepts. We did not rooms for patients with serious medical when a gambler goes on a losing word has been sullied. Instead, he want “pie-in-the-sky” thinking to drive needs. Our hospital will have two rooms streak and finds himself in the hole calls it his jobs bill or the American the design and planning processes. We that look like ICU rooms, but are in fact with no money left. He might contin- Jobs Act, but if you look at its ele- had to get very basic in our thinking, but rooms for patients with special needs ue the wager by doubling down or ments – public works, aid to the the new hospital would have to have (not serious illnesses, but special needs). betting double-or-nothing. In other states, unemployment insurance, etc. modern technology to fit into today’s For instance, to better fulfill the needs of words, however much I owe, I’ll dou- – it contains exactly the same pack- healthcare system. a significantly over-weight patient; or a ble the loss on the next hand against age that failed two years ago. Why We knew every successful hospital patient recovering from a stroke or knee evening my loss should I win. Exam- would you remotely think that it must fulfill the needs of its users. We are surgery. These two rooms will each be ple: I’m $100 in the hole with nothing could succeed this go round? lucky to know exactly who uses our ser- located on opposite sides of a nurses’ sta- left in my pocket: doubling down Rather than be sincere and go to vices – the people of Madison County.