http://www.scanbarrow.com ScanBarrow en-us hourly 1 1970-01-01T00:00+00:00 Wed, 02 Jul 2008 09:28:30 -0400 http://www.ScanBarrow.com/modules.php?name=News&file=article&sid=266 http://www.ScanBarrow.com/modules.php?name=News&file=article&sid=266 A 66-year-old Barrow County Alzheimer\'s patient who wandered away from a Statham nursing home Saturday was found in Western Clarke County shortly after 6 p.m. Tuesday, according to a statement issued by the Barrow County Sheriff\'s Office.<br><br>Frank Comer Starr disappeared sometime Saturday from the Bowles Personal Care Home in Statham. He was in the custody of the Barrow County Sheriff\'s Office on Tuesday evening, and deputies will reunite Starr with his legal guardians soon, said Murray... Fri, 13 Jun 2008 08:41:30 -0400 http://www.ScanBarrow.com/modules.php?name=News&file=article&sid=265 http://www.ScanBarrow.com/modules.php?name=News&file=article&sid=265 A 10-year-old Barrow County boy was shot in the leg Thursday morning while playing with a shotgun, but is expected to make a full recovery.<br><br>The boy, who police will not identify, was accidentally shot shortly before noon while playing at a 12-year-old friend\'s home at 14 Herald Drive in Bethlehem, according to Murray Kogod, chief deputy with the Barrow County Sheriff\'s Office.<br><br>\"It appears that they gained access to a 12-gauge shotgun,\" Kogod said. \"It went off accidentally while they ... Sat, 07 Jun 2008 10:12:00 -0400 http://www.ScanBarrow.com/modules.php?name=News&file=article&sid=264 http://www.ScanBarrow.com/modules.php?name=News&file=article&sid=264 A 39-year-old Bethlehem man faces murder and aggravated assault charges for allegedly shooting his mother in the back with a crossbow while she was sleeping.<br><br>Deputies found Rodney George Thompson, 39, on the porch of his mother\'s house at 102 Carterdale Court in Bethlehem just minutes after she dialed 911 to report that her son had stabbed her. Dispatchers at Barrow County\'s 911 center received Lynch\'s call about 9:45 Thursday morning.<br><br>Paramedics found 63-year-old Marjorie Lynch on the ... Thu, 05 Jun 2008 11:14:28 -0400 http://www.ScanBarrow.com/modules.php?name=News&file=article&sid=263 http://www.ScanBarrow.com/modules.php?name=News&file=article&sid=263 WINDER - Three Winder police officers and two Barrow County sheriff\'s deputies won medals for pulling injured passengers from two burning cars after a deadly head-on collision on Georgia Highway 11 last month.<br><br>The Winder Police Department\'s Medal of Honor is the second-highest award a police officer can receive, and the officers honored Tuesday are the first to receive the recognition, said police Chief Stan Rogers.<br><br>Winder police Lts. Rob Currot and Henry Schotter and officer Andy Smith,... Thu, 22 May 2008 08:36:26 -0400 http://www.ScanBarrow.com/modules.php?name=News&file=article&sid=262 http://www.ScanBarrow.com/modules.php?name=News&file=article&sid=262 Investigators in Winder continued to search for clues Wednesday to begin to understand a pair of crashes that killed five people at almost the same spot on Georgia Highway 11 within a week.<br><br>In both wrecks, a northbound vehicle crossed the centerline of the road just north of a bridge over Marbury Creek to collide head-on with an oncoming vehicle in the southbound lane.<br><br>\"We\'ve never had accidents like this,\" said Winder Police Capt. Dennis Dorsey. \"They\'re looking for road defects,... Wed, 21 May 2008 08:32:43 -0400 http://www.ScanBarrow.com/modules.php?name=News&file=article&sid=261 http://www.ScanBarrow.com/modules.php?name=News&file=article&sid=261 A taxi driver and her passenger died in a head-on collision Tuesday morning on Georgia Highway 11 in Winder just yards away from where three people lost their lives in a fiery crash a week earlier.<br><br>Tuesday\'s fatalities brought to six the number of motorists killed in traffic crashes in Winder this year, twice the number of people who were killed in all of 2007.<br><br>Police said the cabbie and her fare were killed about 9:30 a.m. when a sport utility vehicle crossed the centerline on Ga. 11... Sun, 18 May 2008 07:24:53 -0400 http://www.ScanBarrow.com/modules.php?name=News&file=article&sid=260 http://www.ScanBarrow.com/modules.php?name=News&file=article&sid=260 Auburn narcotics detective Tony Lafreniere has been tracking a disturbing crime trend in Barrow County for a year and a half.<br><br>He\'s busted prescription drug dealers in single-wide trailers and three-story McMansions; he\'s locked up 19-year-old students and middle-age professionals.<br><br>He\'s learned the complexity of the illicit prescription drug trade and just how far people will go to get a fix.<br><br>... Thu, 15 May 2008 08:41:16 -0400 http://www.ScanBarrow.com/modules.php?name=News&file=article&sid=259 http://www.ScanBarrow.com/modules.php?name=News&file=article&sid=259 The Barrow County Commission has voted to accept a $34,386 grant from the U.S. Department of Justice to purchase three thermal imaging scopes for the Barrow County Sheriff\'s Office.<br><br>The scopes are able to detect heat given off from an individual\'s body, helping deputies to find suspects or fugitives who have disappeared into wooded areas.<br><br>Without the equipment, Barrow County deputies have called the Georgia State Patrol when they needed the technology.<br><br>... Wed, 14 May 2008 08:14:01 -0400 http://www.ScanBarrow.com/modules.php?name=News&file=article&sid=258 http://www.ScanBarrow.com/modules.php?name=News&file=article&sid=258 An elderly couple from Monroe were taking a friend home from a religious revival meeting in the wee hours Tuesday morning when another car slammed into them head-on on Georgia Highway 11, killing the couple, Winder police said.<br><br>A third person died in the 1 a.m. crash near Fort Yargo State Park and The Eagle Greens at the Chimneys golf course; two other people were critically injured.<br><br>Wilber F. Taylor, 71, and Dorothy Jean Pike-Taylor, 70, were taking 65-year-old Gerald Whitlow to his... Tue, 13 May 2008 08:44:06 -0400 http://www.ScanBarrow.com/modules.php?name=News&file=article&sid=257 http://www.ScanBarrow.com/modules.php?name=News&file=article&sid=257 Barrow County sheriff\'s deputies have arrested 19 men and women and obtained felony drug warrants for 24 others as part of one of the widest-reaching narcotics investigations in the county\'s history.<br><br>The arrests come after a two-month investigation, which started with undercover investigators making buy-busts that produced information leading to other dealers, said Chief Deputy Murray Kogod of the Barrow County Sheriff\'s Department.<br><br>Deputies and officers seized what they said is almost ... Fri, 02 May 2008 13:45:04 -0400 http://www.ScanBarrow.com/modules.php?name=News&file=article&sid=256 http://www.ScanBarrow.com/modules.php?name=News&file=article&sid=256 Firefighters and sheriff\'s deputies will be holding out empty boots at intersections across the county today and Saturday to collect donations for the Georgia Firefighters Burn Foundation.<br><br>This is the 19th year the Barrow County Fire Department has held its \"Give Burns the Boot\" drive to raise money for Camp Oo-U-La, Georgia\'s only camp for children who have been burned.<br><br>This is the first year Barrow County Sheriff\'s deputies have joined in the fundraising efforts.<br><br>... Sun, 27 Apr 2008 07:51:49 -0400 http://www.ScanBarrow.com/modules.php?name=News&file=article&sid=255 http://www.ScanBarrow.com/modules.php?name=News&file=article&sid=255 The annual summer ban on outdoor fires takes effect Thursday throughout the region.<br><br>The ban is imposed by the state Environmental Protection Division to help improve air quality during the smog season and to comply with the Federal Clean Air Act.<br><br>The ban, which runs through Sept. 30, prohibits burning in 54 Georgia counties, including Barrow, Clarke, Jackson, Madison and Oconee.<br><br>... Fri, 25 Apr 2008 08:29:49 -0400 http://www.ScanBarrow.com/modules.php?name=News&file=article&sid=254 http://www.ScanBarrow.com/modules.php?name=News&file=article&sid=254 It\'s been more than 30 years since Barrow County Sheriff Joel Robinson rode his first patrol shift as a deputy.<br><br>Back then, the Barrow County Sheriff\'s Office had fewer than 10 deputies to run patrols, respond to calls and operate the county jail. Lacking in manpower one day in 1974, Sheriff John Robert Austin turned to a young radio operator, Robinson, pointed to a patrol car and said, \"You get in the car. You\'re a deputy.\"<br><br>\"I told him that I didn\'t know how to arrest anybody,\"... Fri, 18 Apr 2008 07:41:35 -0400 http://www.ScanBarrow.com/modules.php?name=News&file=article&sid=253 http://www.ScanBarrow.com/modules.php?name=News&file=article&sid=253 Local law enforcement officers will handcuff themselves to running treadmills Saturday in hopes of collaring donations for the annual Law Enforcement Torch Run, which raises money for Special Olympics Georgia.<br><br>Officers from the Arcade Police Department and the Barrow County Sheriff\'s Office will participate in the \"Special Olympics Cuffed for a Cause\" fundraiser by chaining themselves to moving treadmills. Each officer will have to stay on the treadmill for eight hours or until they... Thu, 13 Mar 2008 12:05:37 -0400 http://www.ScanBarrow.com/modules.php?name=News&file=article&sid=252 http://www.ScanBarrow.com/modules.php?name=News&file=article&sid=252 Lt. Steve:<br><br>I was driving up 400 and a cop stopped me for speeding. There was traffic to my right so I pulled over to the left against the median wall. The officer was agitated with me and I didn't like his attitude. I couldn't pull over to the right because of the traffic. What should I have done? Was I dumb to do that?<br><br>Dear Dummy:<br><br>Having been there myself, I'm guessing the officer was a bit on the agitated side knowing that he was about to be run over. The only thing that would fit in...