Marianna Teen Dies in Wreck on Bodiford
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50¢ CLJ includes THE CALHOUN-LIBERTY News tax .com OURNAL J Volume 31, Number 43 Wednesday, Oct. 26, 2011 Tigers Hosford Parade defeat LCHS A youngster surveys the trail ahead A Blountstown Tiger player races as he rides in Saturday’s Hosford past a Liberty County opponent PTO Fall Festival parade. More as the cross-river rivals met on parade and festival photos on Bowles Field Friday. See pages page 21. DANIEL WILLIAMS PHOTO 16 & 17 for more. DANIEL WILLIAMS PHOTO Man charged with mailing marijuana Crystal Oday is shown above in a photo posted on her Facebook page. The wreckage of her Ford Explorer is show as it was removed from the scene Monday night. DANIEL WILLIAMS PHOTO to prison inmate A Jacksonville Marianna teen dies in man was charged with introducing contraband into a wreck on Bodiford Rd. state correctional facility after his by Teresa Eubanks, Journal Editor “They were working on her in the An 18-year-old Marianna teen died ambulance but they lost her en route palm print was Monday evening after her vehicle to the hospital,” according to another found on a package overturned on Bodiford Road, 1.5 miles emergency worker at the scene. She was containing 18 west of SR 71, in Altha. pronounced dead at Calhoun-Liberty grams of marijuana SHAYE RILEY Residents of The fatality was identified as Crystal Hospital. that was mailed Kinard want Carroll Oday. The cause of the accident has not to an inmate at Liberty Correctional According to the Florida Highway been determined. Waldorff said it is Institution earlier this year. Bay County Patrol report, Oday was traveling west possible that she wrecked while trying Shaye Riley, 25, was arrested Oct. 21 to pave its on Bodiford Road around 7:15 p.m. to avoid hitting an animal. “That place and booked into the Liberty County Jail. when she traveled onto the north grass is notorious for deer crossing the road,” According to an affidavit from the side of Scotts shoulder. She overcorrected, lost control he said. Florida Department of Corrections of her 1999 Ford Explorer, and went “Very few people live down that road (FDOC), an overnight package was Ferry Road across both lanes of the road. The vehicle and none of them knew who she was,” received in the mailroom at Liberty PAGE 9 overturned in a ditch, coming to rest on according to Waldorff. “We’re not sure Correctional Institution on March 24. its roof. why she was there or who she might have When the package was opened for The accident was reported a couple of been visiting,” he said. inspection, a manila envelope was found hours later, with FHP arriving on scene The Marianna address listed for her inside that contained several pieces at 9:32 p.m. was not current, he said, explaining, “She of an inmate’s mail. A slot had been INSIDE “The car rolled over and pinned her hadn’t been there in a month.” He noted cut in one envelope and a green leafy arm on the driver’s side,” said Altha Fire that the vehicle had a temporary tag from substance wrapped in cellophane had Volunteers get ready Chief Scott Waldorff. “We had enough South Florida. been stuffed inside. The substance field- for big Halloween people on scene that we were able to Oday attended Cottondale High tested positive for marijuana. The package was submitted to Carnival Saturday......5 lift the car up and pull her arm out from School through her junior year last year under it. They got her out pretty quick.” and then moved to Marianna, according FDLE for chemical analysis and latent She was not wearing a seat belt. to a school employee. She was not fingerprint detection. A palm print on the LCHS class reunion.....12 “She had a weak pulse when we first registered at Marianna High School. package was identified as belonging to got there,” he said. She had a serious The crash was investigated by FHP Riley, who is a former FDOC inmate. Business news..........14 head injury. Cpl. Raymond Bailey. Bond was set at $5,000. Riley was released from custody Saturday. Investigators find meth cooking on hotplate in home with 8 children by Teresa Eubanks, Journal Editor meth lab in operation. FOUR WOMEN ARRESTED IN OCT. 19 RAID When they failed to get a response The three women who share the after announcing their presence and home - Samantha Michelle White, repeatedly knocking, members of the 41, Amy Johnston, 30, and Maria Calhoun-Liberty Drug Task forced a Thurman, 34, - were there, along with door open to enter a home where they a fourth woman, Violet Manning, 37, found four women, eight children and of Blountstown. a batch of methamphetamine cooking Manning was taken into custody on a on a hot plate. felony warrant. She handed over a plastic The Task Force went to 19054 NE container that held approximately a Elm Street at 10:40 p.m. last Wednesday half gram of methamphetamine before to serve a search warrant and found a being placed in a patrol car. VIOLET MANNING SAMANTHA WHITE MARIA THURMAN AMY JOHNSON See METH MOMS continued inside on page 3 Sheriff's Log...2 Community Calendar...4 Commentary...6, 7 News from the Pews...10 Farmer's Almanac...11 Birthdays.....13 Speak Up!...15 Schools....18 & 19 Obituaries.....23 Volleyball...25 Classifieds.....26 & 27 Page 2 THE CALHOUN-LIBERTY JOURNAL OCTOBER 26, 2011 compiled by Journal ARREST REPORTS Editor Teresa Eubanks SHERIFF’S LOG C A L H O U N C O U N T Y Oct. 17 Woman arrested for creating disturbance, •Hamilton Thomas, battery, CCSO. •Alfred Way, driving with license suspended or revoked, CCSO. fighting and then fleeing from patrol car Oct. 19 A 22-year-old Hosford woman someone screaming. She ran into a nearby yard. •Gregory Couch, VOP, CCSO. was charged with breach of peace, said she saw Thomas, He handcuffed the •James Melvin, VOCR, failure to appear, disorderly conduct, fighting and who yelled at her and juvenile, who began CCSO. escape after a disturbance on Third accused her of stealing screaming and cursing •Violet Virgina Manning, manufacture of Street in Bristol early Saturday her camera. uncontrollably. She was meth, possession of meth, aggravated child morning. Wagoner said she put in the back of the abuse, CCSO. Arrested was Jessica Ann tried to tell Thomas she patrol car before the Oct. 20 Thomas. did not take her camera deputy began searching •Amy Michelle Johnston, manufacture of Liberty County Sheriff’s Deputy but Thomas was “very for Thomas. meth, possession of meth, aggravated child Jonathan Gentry responded to a intoxicated” and took a Thomas disappeared abuse, CCSO. disturbance call around 2 a.m. swing at her in the middle but after the sheriff’s •Maria Thurman, manufacture of meth, and found two women fighting of the street. office got a phone tip possession of meth, aggravated child abuse, CCSO. in the street. A bystander came Wagoner stated she told JESSICA THOMAS on her whereabouts, the forward and restrained Thomas, Thomas and her friend deputy caught up with •Samantha Michelle White, manufacture of who was screaming and yelling to leave but Thomas her hiding on the back meth, possession of meth, aggravated child abuse, CCSO. uncontrollably. kept trying to hit her. The deputy porch of a home on CR 12 South. •Brandon Ronnie Pitts, VOP, CCSO. The deputy handcuffed Thomas, arrived just as the two women started The two women were taken to the •Matthew Alexander Hall, possession of a who smelled strongly of an alcoholic fighting. county jail. controlled substance with intent to distribute beverage and was unsteady on her Thomas’ younger friend, who also The deputy later asked the younger within 1,000 feet of a school, possession of feet, and placed her in the back seat smelled strongly of alcohol, became woman why she had let Thomas out drug paraphernalia, possession of a weapon of his patrol car. She kept screaming agitated when the deputy tried to talk of the patrol car. “Because she has by a felon, concealed firearm, BPD. and yelled that she didn’t want to go with her and screamed that neither kids,” she replied. Oct. 22 to jail. she nor Thomas had done anything The younger girl, who is not named •Lisa Ammons, habitual traffic offender, driv- A 17-year-old friend came up wrong. here because she is a juvenile, was ing with license suspended or revoked, BPD. and hugged Thomas before she got As the deputy spoke with several charged with disorderly intoxication Oct. 24 into the patrol car and begged the bystanders to determine what had and aiding an escape. •Keith Jones, contempt of court, CCSO. deputy not to arrest her. The girl left h a p p e n e d , h e only after repeated requests from the looked back at his L I B E R T Y C O U N T Y deputy. patrol car and saw Man arrested after being After securing Thomas in his car, Thomas’ teenage Oct. 17 the deputy went to the residence friend open the stopped for expired tag •Arnold Pitts, VOCP, LCSO. of Brandy Wagoner, who said she back door of the A Blountstown man was arrested after a Blountstown Oct. 18 walked outside when she heard vehicle. Thomas Police Officer noticed his vehicle’s tag had expired, •Victor O’Jeda, VOSP, LCSO. Oct. 20 pulled him over and found that his license was •Violet Manning, holding for CCSO, suspended. CCSO. Man charged with Matthew Alexander Hall, 24, was stopped on Charlie •Amy Johnston, holding for CCSO, CCSO.