VETERANS DAY EVENTS PLANNED TURN TO PAGE 12 FOR DETAILS TheThe CountyCounty RecordRecord WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER 10, 2010 ■ 104th Year, No. 11 ■ BLOUNTSTOWN, FLORIDA 32424 ■ 50 CENTS (Including Tax) CRIME CRIME SPORTS Another Couple case of busted insurance on meth fraud at charges hospital BY KELLI PEACOCK DUNN News Editor BY KELLI PEACOCK DUNN A Blountstown business News Editor owner and his wife are A former correctional behind bars officer and after author- hospital ities found housekeeper the makings charged in of a meth lab an insurance in their fraud case South Street JOHN MCCLENDON last month home. are back John Alvin McClendon, behind bars. CEDRIC SIMMONS 48, and Amanda Lynette Cedric McClendon, Bernard 31, have Simmons, been 34, has been DISTRICT CHAMPS! charged with charged with trafficking conspiracy metham- to commit phetamine insurance Tigers defeat LCHS 20-19 and posses- fraud and sion of listed forgery. AMANDA DALLAS HOGANS chemicals. MCCLENDON Dallas The Tigers were celebrating in Bulldog country Friday night after edging LCHS, 20-19, to capture the district John is also Hogans, 26, has been championship title. Above, after a hard hitting contest, players met in good sportsmanship at midfield. The charged with trafficking arrested on the same con- game was one of the most exciting ever in series history. For more on the game, turn to page 3. hydrocodone. spiracy charge, as well as According to the being a principle to forgery. Calhoun County Sheriff’s According to the Office, a search team con- POLITICS sisting of Inv. Mark See FRAUD, page 2 Mallory, Sgt. Jared Nichols, Dep. Eddie ONLINE EDITION Dalton, and Dep. Jody Snafu at polls with city ballot; Hoagland served a search warrant on the The County McClendons’ home and auto repair business just Record before 10 a.m. Saturday. city runoff election is planned After no response, the team forced open the back door ONLINE BY KELLI PEACOCK DUNN Veressa followed with 100. Since neither of the top two of the home and found www.thecountyrecord.net News Editor vote getters had 50 percent plus one, a runoff election is Amanda in the master bed- planned next month. The Blountstown City Council was room with a plastic contain- Election day went smooth in Calhoun County last expected to set the runoff date at their meeting Tuesday er of meth. John then drove SEE A PHOTO YOU LIKE? Tuesday with the exception of a snafu at one precinct. (details unavailable at press time). up in front of the business According to Margie Laramore, Supervisor of BUY IT ONLINE! and was approached by Elections, it was discovered early in the day that voters Dep. Dalton and Sgt. at the Scout House precinct on South Pear Street were School officials regroup Nichols who advised him of not receiving their city ballot. “[Poll workers] eventual- the search warrant being ly discovered it and 31 voters had voted,” Laramore served. He resisted as they reports, adding that both city and county voters use that after voters reject tax attempted to handcuff him precinct and only county ballots were given out. and had to be physically Laramore immediately gathered a list of the 31 who BY KELLI PEACOCK DUNN restrained. A bottle of 28 had cast ballots and started dialing. “I got in touch with News Editor hydrocodone pills, two nine of them,” she remarks, adding that some laughed it RIVER FORECAST Calhoun County school administrators will be pulling meth pipes, and three off and didn’t seem to mind. They were all given the out the calculator and crunching numbers to adjust their unknown pills were found option to come to the Elections office and vote a provi- future budget after voters rejected a .25 mill tax levy for in John’s front pants pock- sional ballot for the city race. “It was an honest mis- another two years. et. A pill bottle with one take,” says Laramore. “I did the best I could with what Sixty percent of voters said “no” on the school refer- gram of meth was discov- happened.” endum, making it clear they don’t want to continue pay- ered inside John’s jacket. Fortunately, the 31 ballots would not have made a ing the additional property tax that has been in place for A search of the difference in the close Council race. After provisional two years. McClendon home turned ballots were counted, Clifford Jackson had 319 and Roy up numerous items used to APALACHICOLA RIVER Pickron came in a close second with 302. Beverly See SCHOOL TAX, page 5 manufacture meth. The couple was booked Nov. 10...8PM... 2.1’ into the Calhoun County Nov. 12...8PM... 1.10’ BUSINESS Jail and remained in cus- Nov. 14...6AM... 1.7’ Cease and desist order filed; tody at press time. Superior Bank announces plans In response to a cease actions. Superior is required, performing, non-classified and desist order filed last C. Stanley Bailey, among other things, to loans are unaffected by week, Superior Bancorp Chairman & CEO, stated, increase the Bank's capi- the agreement with the LUNCH (Nasdaq: SUPR) "Superior has been work- tal, maintain its allowance OTS. Deposits remain announced Thursday that ing closely with its regula- for loan and lease losses at fully covered by FDIC SPECIALS the company and its prin- tors since the start of this a level appropriate for the insurance to at least cipal operating subsidiary, economic recession to risk in its loan portfolio, $250,000 per depositor. 1. 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MAIN ST., ALTHA, FLA. 762-3228 Serving Blountstown and Calhoun County Since 1907 674-3838 The County Record, NOVEMBER 10, 2010, Page 2 CRIME NEWS County Routine traffic stop ends Extension News in arrest of CNA for meth BY KELLI PEACOCK DUNN Partridge admitted to having meth La nina formed; expect News Editor pulled Rudd inside the console. A search over on turned up digital scales, a A routine traffic stop South Main cigarette box containing resulted in the arrest of a Street for 16.4 grams of pseu- dry, warm fall & winter certified nursing assistant having win- doephedrine, an eye drop- on drug charges. dows tinted per bottle of acid and lithi- BY JUDY LUDLOW, Stacey Ann Rudd, 23, beyond the um, as well as a plastic con- STACEY RUDD AGRICULTURE AND was arrested Friday for legal limit. tainer of meth. NATURAL RESOURCES trafficking pseu- Rudd appeared nervous Rudd said she was a AGENT doephedrine, possession of and Inv. Partridge asked CNA and did not want to listed chemicals, and pos- CCSO Dep. Eddie Dalton lose her nursing certifica- "Climate is what we session of meth. to bring his K-9 over for a tion. She was booked into expect, weather is According to the sniff of the vehicle. The dog the Calhoun County Jail what we get.” -Mark Blountstown Police gave a positive alert for and remained in custody at Twain Department, Inv. Timothy narcotics. Rudd then press time. Remember the weather last year? The fall and win- DCF investigator is arrested for ter of 2009 was one of the rainiest on record and had serious impacts on winter DUI after running deputy off road crops. Well, as is now pre- dicted, the fall and winter A drunk driver collision, then pulled the vehicle and had continued of 2010 is gearing up to be employed as an investiga- vehicle over.