VIETNAM ThePublished News since 1890 every Monday and Tursday forReporter the County of Columbus and her people. Tursday, July 5, 2012 Forgotten stories of an unforgettable war: Vietnam at 50 The name Vietnam con- The News Reporter staff want- Vietnam marked the first he was fighting for—or Volume 122, Number 2 jures up many images—from ed to honor the veterans of time that some Americans even whom he was fight- Whiteville, North Carolina war protestors burning flags this misunderstood war by who were against foreign con- ing. and prisoners of war kissing allowing them to tell their flicts turned on the soldiers, Vietnam marked airport tarmacs, to young men stories. rather than the politicians America’s first foray 75 Cents with old eyes and M-16 rifles, We originally expected who sent them there. At the as a strategic world to helicopters and jet aircraft. no more than a dozen or so same time, American soldiers, power into a guerilla Although Vietnam is now responses, but since the start sailors, airmen, Marines and war. The Viet Cong Inside Today history, rather than current of our “Forgotten stories” se- Coast Guardsmen who were guerillas dressed and events, the struggles of the ries, we have received dozens in Vietnam were plagued with lived like the every- 4-A conflict are still very alive for of phone calls. The outpour- unwilling allies, complicated day villagers who r.BOTUBCCFE the hundreds of local men ing has been so great for the rules of engagement, incon- interacted with the TFDPOENBOTIPU who served in some capacity special section that we began sistent objectives, and a lack Americans all the r5BCPS$JUZUSJP during the decade-long war. including veteran’s stories in of clear goals. Unlike their time. Several of This year marks the 50th the regular newspaper last fathers and grandfathers in our subjects talked DBVHIUTUFBMJOH anniversary of the start of week, and will continue to do previous wars, the GI in Viet- about his barber U.S. involvement in Vietnam. so for some time. nam wasn’t always sure what See Vietnam, page 5-A Next Issue County Lawmakers could go override deeper in debt budget veto nFracking, racial justice vetoes By NICOLE CARTRETTE blocked. Staff Writer By NICOLE CARTRETTE Thirty-two million. Staff Writer Monday’s For an individual that may American Pro- be a lot of debt, but for local gov- Rep. Dewey Hill was one of six Democrats fle features “Te ernments in North Carolina, it who voted with GOP leaders and the majority is below the average. party this week to override the governor’s veto Strength of ‘Her- The county debt ratio is of the state budget. cules.’ Actor Kevin at a fraction of a percent or Gov. Bev Perdue was pushing for more fund- .33 percent, County Finance ing for education to lessen the blow of roughly Sorbo played the Officer Bobbie Faircloth told $190 million in funding that officials say local mythic muscleman commissioners. public schools will lose this year in funding. on TV but faced his That is well below the state benchmark of 1.78 percent, See Veto, page 6-A mightiest battle in Faircloth said. By state statute, Colum- real life.” bus County has the ability to issue additional debt up to Emergency DIDYOB? $258,490,709 with the approval of the Local Government Com- Did you observe ... mission, Faircloth said. radio system Of the county’s outstanding Rising senior Kim- debt, the bulk (just less than switch coming berly Caines making $21 million) is associated with financing of the county’s water nTraining begins this month. all A’s and the Dean’s districts. List at UNC Wilming- The financing on the Wil- By NICOLE CARTRETTE liams Township School con- Staff Writer ton? ... Mike Hardi- struction project, following a son District Ranger fire that destroyed much of the Staff photo by Mark Gilchrist Work continues on a new digital UHF emer- D08 announcing his school, accounts for another gency radio system that will replace Columbus retirement afer 30 $1.2 million of debt. Rocking sergeant County’s existing fire, rescue and law enforce- Columbus Regional Health- Staff Sgt. Stephen Edgerton plays bass guitar in the Loose Cannons, ment communication system. care System’s existing debt plus years with N.C. the third group to perform in the Army Ground Forces Band at South County officials were hopeful that work Department of For- See Debt, page 3-A Columbus High School before the freworks display Tuesday night. See Radio, page 7-A estry? ... County Deaths Whiteville More war stories from Vietnam Liston William Cox Robert Murphy Creen’s photos weren’t for publication Like his dad, Wagner carried a machine gun Robert Dale Clewis By JEFFERSON WEAVER nWhiteville Marine recalls Stacy Hunt Staff Writer fierce fighting at Hamburger Rose Marie Baker Hill, reception at home. Hallsboro Mike Creen took thousands of photos in his decades of service with By BOB HIGH Paul Byron Wyche the U.S. Air Force, but few ever made Staff Writer Tabor City it to print. James A. “John” Blackwell As a member of the 600th and 601st Donald Gene Wagner, 63, of White- Chadbourn Photo Squadron, Creen’s job was to ville, got his draft notice in the spring Randy Gene Coleman take photos for specialists safely be- of 1968, but he listened to his father, hind a desk in Washington, D.C. He Charles, and joined the Marine Corps. Bolton didn’t often fire an M-16, but instead “My father was at Iwo Jima in Linzy Jacobs wielded a 35mm Nikon camera with World War II. He told me I had a a variety of lenses and a motor drive, Mike Creen with an image from his better chance of coming back alive an option many commercial photogra- Vietnam days. from Vietnam being in the Marines Index phers didn’t own at the time. because of the training I’d get. He was Despite shooting thousands of pho- “We took photos for the Air Force, right. My training saved my life. My &EJUPSJBMT" tos and miles of motion picture film, not for the press,” Creen said. “Our close friends had my back,” Wagner his pictures rarely made the news. pictures went straight to Washington declared. 0CJUVBSJFT" Wagner in 1968. Ironically, Creen has comparatively few and the Pentagon.” He went to Vietnam in August 1968 4QPSUT# private pictures of the war, although He also never had to call on the other as a machine gunner in F Company, his squad’s machine gunner) for the $SJNF" Vietnam has been called the first war skill the USAF taught him—how to 2nd Battalion, 7th Marines, 1st Marine first seven months. -JWJOH$ where every soldier had an M-16 on one Division, as a replacement. He was an shoulder and a Minolta on the other. See Creen, page 2-A “ammo humper” (supplied ammo to See Wagner, page 5-A 2-A – The News Reporter, Thursday, July 5, 2012 Creen Continued from page 1-A safely crash land an aircraft. a few years later. He eventually Creen’s job in Vietnam began working for a communi- was to provide forensic pho- ty newspaper in Summerville, tographs of battle damages S.C. Today Creen is active in after air strikes. That meant the Whiteville chapter of the flying into a target area, pho- Vietnam Veterans of America. tographing it, then returning He still has a bitter taste after it was struck by bombers from the politicians who mis- and attack aircraft. Some- managed the war, and the times the aircraft Creen was protestors who blamed the aboard became the target of individuals who were drafted anti-aircraft crews still reeling or volunteered to serve. It even from an attack by bombers, carried over to people he knew gunships or other ordinance. in some cases. “When we came back,” he Continuing in the service said, “it could get dangerous.” helped Creen, he said. The The Moline, Ill. native, met reduction in the armed forces his wife, the former Saundra in the wake of Vietnam left Ann Powell, while both were many veterans struggling to stationed in Charleston, S.C. find a willing ear or a help- Mrs. Creen is a native of ing hand, and Creen said he Hallsboro. knows intimately how badly Mike Creen served in Gre- the support of comrades is nada and Korea, as well as needed for combat veterans. other less-dangerous posts, Leaving for Vietnam. “It helped me survive, to but his busiest time was in be around people who under- Vietnam. He flew in nearly Vietnamese military and gov- stood,” he said. “We could talk every type of aircraft deployed ernment officials sometimes to each other, and know we in the war, and was cross- was a dicey job, Creen said. would be understood.” trained in “setting it down” One time the unit was having Creen said he will always if something happened to the problems because there was “cherish” his time in Vietnam, pilot. a uniformed female in the as well as his career in the Air Like many Vietnam veter- ranks—who also happened to Force. ans, Creen spent most of his be attractive. “I got a good career out of air time in helicopters. “I probably shouldn’t tell it,” he said, “and I made the “We would fly support, this story,” he laughed, “but best friends a man could want. looking for the bad guys, then she spoke fluent French, and I didn’t enjoy going to war—no photograph the damage after- when she quit shaving and one does. I know how blessed ward,” he said. “Our pictures turned on the French accent, I was to make it home. 58,000 were used for a lot of pur- they couldn’t do enough for didn’t get to come home.” poses, but mainly to assess the us. They loved the French, and Creen said he first vis- weapons used.” were more familiar with them ited the Vietnam Memorial One of his hairiest experi- because France was there for in Washington, D.C. several ences came when clipped to a so long—many of them spoke years ago. He found names harness in the door of a UH-1 the language.” there that he recognized. helicopter. The space was Creen went through the “When you find names of usually the post of a machine same training experienced friends there,” he said, “you gunner, but in this case, Creen by all air crews headed for just feel a coldness, and you was armed only with a camera Southeast Asia—in addi- try to make some sense of it when the chopper came under tion to basic flight skills, Michael Creen was photographed by one of his own team while they documented the all. It’s our job as veterans to fire. he had to attend the famous damage from an air strike. make sure people know, and “I got a four-picture series Survival Evasion Resistance that they care, what was sac- of an AK-47 being fired at the Escape (SERE) school in rificed for them. We have to helicopter,” he said. Washington State and the make sure that no one, from Creen also flew in the Jolly Philippines. The training any war, is forgotten.” Green Giant, the helicop- helped remind him of how ter used by Air Force res- dangerous his occupation Jefferson Weaver cue crews. His job there was was. 910-642-4104 ext. 227 to document the rescue of “There was always the [email protected] downed pilots and airmen, chance that the flight crew as well as the heavy weapons would be killed or wounded, used by the crews to fend off and you would have to fly the enemy troops. aircraft out enough to get COASTAL STADIUM 10 “Those parajumpers were away from the enemy,” he www.franktheatres.com some of the bravest men you said. “Every time we flew, I 4BWBHFT 3 BN tQNtQN could ever meet,” he said. had to be checked out on the tQNtQN The photo squadron had aircraft, and it reminded ,BUZ1FSSZ1BSUPG.F 1( % their own darkroom and film you that you could be killed QN'SJ4VO tQNtQNtQN processing center where they or captured. 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It was just an 5ZMFS1FSSZT.BEFBT8JUOFTT1SPUFDUJPO 1( crew to set up a formal por- were always a reminder of for their whole tour.” He said the support of his fam- interruption to the lives of so BN tQNtQNtQNtQN how dangerous and tough the trait shoot, sometimes right Dealing with the after- ily was vital. many, and they don’t want to 1FPQMF-JLF6T 1( tQN war zone really was. after the squadron came in math of fire missions often “I was proud of what I talk about it.” .BEBHBTDBS 1( BN tQN from the field. “You’d see the guys living meant seeing some horrible did, serving my country,” he Creen stayed in the Air tQNtQN “I photographed a four- in their trenches, under fire things, Creen said, but “you said. “Still, I didn’t want to Force for 25 years; after Viet- 5FE 3 BN tQNtQN tQNtQN star general once,” Creen every night, and the 105mm just learned to do your job talk about it. I have a great nam he was sent to Syracuse, .BHJD.JLF 3 BN tQNt chuckled. cannon going off just enough and go on. wife and family, but I didn’t N.Y., to study photojournal- Working with the South to disrupt the enemy. When QNtQNtQN “You stayed focused on let them know too much. ism. Later he taught photog- 24 Hr. Movie Hotline: 910-754-7469 raphy in the military, and was SHOWTIMES: June 22 - June 28 /P1BTTFT"DDFQUFEt4IPXUJNFTJO 'SJ4BU0OMZ deployed into combat again in 4QFDJBM4VSDIBSHFJT"QQMJDBCMFGPS"MM%'FBUVSFT Grenada. He retired in 1991, June weather average but July uncomfortable and was followed by wife Ann Ensign Warren By RAY WYCHE June showed only 2.59 inches that caused at least one boat to heat index registering 130 Henry Fischer, II Staff Writer of rain, below the 54-year av- become grounded on a sand- degrees Sunday, and 124 Sat- erage precipitation for June bar near the park. urday at the weather station Vineland The comfortable weather of 5.04 inches. Rain totaling Comfortable early summer of Bill Ghent on Canal Street of spring covered Columbus 9.11 inches in May provided temperatures gave way during in Whiteville. Station County for most of June, enough soil moisture to give the weekend to higher ther- Available for wedding with only five days when the a good start of farm crops in mometer readings. receptions & other temperature exceeded 90 de- the area. The temperature on Sat- Ray Wyche grees. The average high for Summertime thunder- urday reached 99 degrees at 910-642-4104 ext. 229 events the month was 84.87 degrees, storms swept the area Sunday the research station, with the 642-3157 slightly less than the 54-year afternoon depositing varying Ensign Warren Henry Fischer, II average maximum. amounts of rain across the graduated on Tuesday, 29 May 2012 But the beginning of July county. The Research Station the class of 2012 from the United showed a different weather northwest of Whiteville re- States Naval Academy in Annapolis, picture. ported only 0.05 inches of rain Happy 11th Birthday Happy 6th Birthday Happy 9th Birthday Maryland. Warren is the son of Hen- The Border Belt Tobacco Sunday, while the Hallsboro ry and Mary Wall Fischer, of Shal- Research Station records for area recorded 1.50 inches. Zachery lotte Point, Shallotte, NC. Sibling of Headquarters of District 8, Nicholas Sebastian Lana Fischer, Shallotte, NC and the grandson of the late Warren Henry N.C. Division of Forests west The News Reporter Archie Grice Kennedy and Helen Fischer of Shallotte, NC, of Whiteville, showed 0.30 July 5, 2012 July 7, 2012 and the late Thomas Benson and (USPS 387-600) inches Sunday. July 7, 2012 Mary Ledbetter of Raleigh, NC. Published twice weekly by Lake Waccamaw State Park His education includes attendance at Risen Christ Lutheran School, The News Reporter Co. Inc. reported rainfall of 1.3 inches Sunday, along with high winds Myrtle Beach, SC, Waccamaw Acad- 127 W. Columbus St. emy, Whiteville, NC, and graduated Whiteville N.C. 28472 from West Brunswick High School, Mailing address: Shallotte, NC in 2007. He then at- P.O. Box 707, Jam session tended Wyoming Seminary Pre- paratory School in Wilkes-Barre, Whiteville, N.C. 28472-0707 Pennsylvania on a football scholar- Periodical postage paid at at Emporium ship with the United States Naval Whiteville, N.C., 28472-0707 Academy. Four years later, on May A jam session featuring a 29,2012, he was one of one thou- Postmaster: send address variety of local musicians and sand ninety-nine midshipmen to changes to P.O. Box 707, singers from across the county march onto the field at the Navy- will be held at Vineland Em- We Love You! Marine Corps stadium for the 162nd Whiteville, N.C. 28472 We Love You! You are loved very much porium Friday, July 6 from 7-9 Daddy, Mama, Austin, traditional graduation ceremony. Jim High, Publisher Mama, Daddy, Grandma, Grandma Jewel & PaPa Joe, pm. The public is invited and Gracie & Faith, Papa Tommy & The “hat toss” signaled the end of Mommie, Daddy & Whitney the commissioning ceremonies. Mail Subscriptions the admission is free. Grandaddy, and Zachery Mema Gail & Aunt Lori (Columbus County) #3026 #3021 #3022 Ensign Fischer of the twenty-ninth $30.00 year company, graduated with a Batch- Coming Soon: Ice Age Continental Drift elor of Science degree in Quanti- Other N.C. Counties A man who has never gone to CINEMA III tative Economics. Warren will be $46.00 year school may steal from a freight stationed in Jacksonville, Florida at car; but if he has a univer- Amazing Spiderman Brave Madea’s Witness Protection Mayport Naval Base, and is assigned Home Delivery $45.00 year sity education, he may steal the 1 • 4 • 7 • 10 Daily 1 • 4 • 7 • 10 Daily • 1 • 4 • 7 • 10 Daily to the USS Roosevelt DDG-80, as a Out of State $65.00 year whole railroad. (PG13) (PG) (PG13) surface warfare officer in the United States Navy. ©2008, The News Reporter Co., Inc. Theodore Roosevelt MOVIE LINE 910-642-6025 Daytime: $5.50 • Nighttime: $7.50 The News Reporter, Thursday, July 5, 2012 – 3-A Morgan’s story corrected, clarifed
Editor’s Note: Lloyd Mor- gan’s story about his activities during three tours in South Vietnam, published Monday, July 2, had some corrections and clarifications. The cor- rections and clarifications were in the following three paragraphs: Morgan, now of White- ville, was in his second Viet- nam tour. “While giving a 3rd Ma- rine officer an orientation, I spotted what I thought was a VC headquarters with a tunnel entrance. While we thought the area was clear of personnel, it had an outer perimeter guard in a camou- Staff photo by Allen Turner Morgan today flaged spider hole. Chief takes office When I turned back to were lost, so he has no air New Fair Bluff Police Chief Justin Hewett was administered the oath of offce Monday confirm the sighting, the VC medals for that time. He was by Fair Bluff Town Clerk Peggy Moore, center, as his wife, Brittany, held the family Bible. guard thought I had spotted also awarded two Bronze him and he fired an entire Stars and three Crosses of magazine from an Ak-47 at Gallantry by the South Viet- me. Morgan and his “Bird Dog” namese Army for providing He said during his second Cessna. help to their troops. Pepe goes to new home tour one of his fellow Caribou Morgan retired in 1980 and By JEFFERSON WEAVER pilots spotted an ambush, but he was awarded nine Air became a pilot, based here, Staff Writer didn’t have enough fuel to Medals for his many flights. for the state’s Forestry De- remain overhead. Another His records for his third tour partment, spotting wildfires. A mini-donkey from Vir- aircraft was requested, and ginia who spent several weeks a platoon sergeant flew in Concrete Lawn recovering from neglect has the back seat with a machine Ornaments & gone to his new home. gun. The Cement Barn Garden Center Pepe Lopez was one of 66 “They broke up the am- horses, donkeys, ponies and bush, killed 25 VC, and saved 41% Glyphosat Wise Up $39.95 2 1/2 Gallon other animals seized from a the friendly unit in April Dinwiddie County, Va., farm 1967. The sergeant was Staff Greenhouse Clearance Continues late this spring. Debbie Bar- Sgt. Roger Putnam, and he All Tropicals, Macho Ferns, Bedding Plants tholomew of the U.S. Equine was awarded the Silver Star. Rescue League (USERL) coor- This was typical of what went dinated efforts to bring many on in my unit.” Buddy Boy & Showtime Dog Food of the animals to Pender, Morgan won a Distin- #FODIFTt4UFQQJOH4UPOFTt5BCMF4FUT.PSF guished Flying Cross for his Brunswick and Bladen coun- Pepe was rescued from a Dinwiddie, Va., farm, and after #ERRO 'ORDO .# s ties. spending some time at rehabilitation facilities in Pender mission when wounded, and Pepe spent some time at and Brunswick counties, has moved to his new perma- Crystal Jordan’s home in St. nent home in Kelly. Helena. Jordan is still caring for another of the Dinwiddie A number of other horses completely rehabilitated, oth- If you recognize this horses that is also in need of from Dinwiddie are avail- ers need extensive socializa- birthday girl on July 10, a home. s able for qualified adoptions tion and training, while others wish her a The mini-donkey was ad- through the USERL. The case may never be able to be more opted by Diane Tabor-Phillips drew national attention, since than companion horses. Happy 50! of Kelly, who has a number the woman caring for the Donations of food, hay, of mini-horses. Pepe was de- horses ran a certified horse wormer, medications and livered to the Kelly farm by rescue facility. The horses other supplies are also wel- volunteers with the USERL had a variety of illnesses and come. For more information, after Phillips-Tabor completed injuries. While some can be email [email protected]. an adoption application. Debt Continued from page 1-A
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Bryant was transferred Crystal Ann Saturino, 31, of to Grand Strand Regional in Shoplifer Loris, S.C. McAllister was in- Myrtle Beach. Bryant told a deputy he was Penny Tabitha Jordan, 23, jured, and five other occupants wounded as he stepped from of Carolina Road, Tabor City, of the two vehicles escaped his vehicle, but didn’t know was arrested July 1 by Tabor injury, a police report showed. he was shot until after he had City police for stealing a T- McCallister attempted to cross driven away from the club area. shirt from Family Dollar store U.S. 701 from west to east, when there. The item was valued motioned through a line of traffic stopped for highway Man stabbed at $5. Richard James Davis, 30, construction in the edge of of the 590 block of Porter Horry County. Weapon Swamp Road, Cerro Gordo, was stabbed in his left chest E d g a r early Wednesday, July 4, while A u s t i n trying to stop a fight at his Fowler, 20, DWI home, according to a sheriff ’s of Lumber- Kandy Benton Harrelson, report. t o n , w a s 44, formerly of Whiteville Davis, who had been drink- arrested by and now living in Greenville, ing, the report showed, told a Chadbourn N.C., was arrested here June Photo submitted by Columbus County Emergency Management deputy two black males, whom police on a 29 for driving while impaired. Workers recently installed emergency equipment on one of several towers in this county. he did not know, were fighting charge of Fowler Her blood-alcohol level was on his porch at 2:30 a.m. possession 0.25 when arrested on Talbot of a stolen firearm on a war- Street here by a Highway Pa- rant obtained by Officer Ricky trol trooper. Moore caught Tursday Soles. Harrelson was also charged Beach furniture thef Fowler is charged with pos- with child abuse for having session of a Smith & Wesson a minor child in the vehicle with pills and cocaine .357 pistol, stolen from Mat- with her. lands three in SC jail Henry Lee Moore, after he found both thew Witt, according to the Stealing cer she was 50, of Glenwood types of cocaine, plus warrant. o u t d o o r delivering Trail, Whiteville, Oxycodone, generic Strangled fur niture the chair. was arrested last Xanax and marijuana Forgeries from Ca- The Dun- Thursday, June 28, in Moore’s vehicle. Kara Faith Nobles, 23, of sual Furni- c a n m e n by Chadbourn po- M o o r e w a s T y e s h a Chadbourn, told a sheriff’s ture World were in the lice on several drug charged with traf- L a k i s h a deputy July 2 she was choked at N o r t h back seat charges, including Moore ficking in the opium/ Peppers, 21, and forced to stay in her home M y r t l e of a pick- possession of both heroin found in the of Chappin on June 28 during a confronta- B e a c h , R. Duncan C. Duncan up tr uck powder and crack cocaine with three types of Oxycodone tab- Street, Chad- tion with her husband at 10 S.C., Monday result- that had already intent to sell. lets he had, plus maintaining bourn, was p.m. on June 28. ed in felony larceny been loaded with Chadbourn Officer Jason his Lincoln Navigator as a place arrested this Kara Nobles said she was charges against three furniture valued at Durdle obtained the warrants to keep and sell illegal drugs. week on 14 dragged from her vehicle and Tabor City residents. $2,135. counts of Peppers taken to her porch where she Reports from po- “Charles Dun- forgery and was strangled against the lice and the Tabor- can pretended to ALE agents cite 243 clerks passing forged documents in- porch railing. She was then Loris Tribune show be asleep,” a report volving checks written on the taken inside, and could not brothers Ralph Aar- showed. for underage tobacco sales account of Lillie Mae Peppers. leave, nor make a phone call. on “Rock” Duncan, Strickland told Tyesha Peppers is charged Strickland Nobles was allowed to leave 39, and Charles Ray police she and Ralph During fiscal year 2011-2012, office checked 181 stores in with forging checks 14 times when a sheriff’s deputy, sent “Buddy” Duncan, 30, both of Duncan planned to steal the North Carolina Alcohol Law Bladen, Brunswick, Columbus, during the period of May 18- by the woman’s co-workers, ar- Saunders Street, Tabor City, furniture, displayed outside Enforcement agents conducted Duplin, New Hanover, Onslow June 13, according to warrants rived to check on her situation. and Vickie Denise Fowler the U.S. 17 business. 1,870 unannounced tobacco and Pender counties. They is- obtained by Chadbourn Police Jason Lee Nobles, 31, was ar- Strickland, 30, of Third Street, Strickland was arrested in compliance checks in 90 coun- sued 31 citations. Detective Lt. Donald Britt. rested for assault on a female. Tabor City, were arrested. May on two counts of break- ties across the state and cited Police discovered Strick- ing and entering, and larceny 243 store clerks for selling to- land with a chair at 12:20 a.m. for entering Oakwood mobile bacco or tobacco products to www.whiteville.com Monday, and she told an offi- homes in Chadbourn. a minor. Break-ins, thefs As part of the state’s Tobac- The following were victims VILLE n THEFT OF 0OULAN CHAIN co Education and Compliance of a break-in and/or theft re- saw, Campbell-Hausfield air Man impersonated ofcer Check Program, ALE agents PLEASE ported on date shown: compressor, Troy-Bilt grass make monthly compliance s *ULY n #LINTON $EAN 7OR- trimmer, floor jack. while getting car June 30 checks and cite store clerks ley, Cardinal Lane, Whiteville s *ULY n !LLISON 3HANE who fail to check a minor’s RECYCLE A wrecker driver repossess- hitting an off-duty officer, and n BREAK IN THEFT OF 3AMSUNG Holden, Will Inman Road, identification, or they do check ing a car June 30 while imper- threatened to take him to jail. TV, Microsoft Xbox system, 4ABOR #ITY n THEFT OF #HICAGO the ID, but still sell. sonating a police officer, and Barnes surrendered the Hewlett-Packard laptop com- Tool generator. If a clerk is cited and has threatening the victim with keys based on the man’s threat, puter. s *ULY n (ANNAH 'OODMAN no prior convictions, a district taking him to jail for striking he told a deputy. s *ULY n 3HELVY *EAN -C- Vereen, Reaves Ferry Road, court judge can level a fine up an officer, according to a July Gill, A.J. Godwin Lane, Clar- .AKINA n BREAK IN THEFT OF to $1,000 or order community 2 sheriff ’s report. ENDON n BREAK IN THEFT OF CASH small box safe, medication. punishment up to 30 days. If Jamie Lynn Barnes, 29, s *ULY n *OSEPH &RANCIS