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May 8, 2014 • Volume 3 Issue 18 • Home Owned & Operated • 12 pages • .75 cents • www.thesportsledger.com
Alabama Governor Robert Bentley announced on Tuesday, May 6, 2014 that he has requested additional federal disaster assistance from the Federal Emergency Management Agency for five Alabama counties in response to the recent tornado outbreak. According to a press release, the additional counties include: Blount, DeKalb, Etowah, Mobile and Tuscaloosa. “It is important for every Alabamian impacted by last week’s storms to have the assistance they need to recover and rebuild their lives,” Governor Bentley said. “We have completed the joint damage assessments with FEMA in The Ledger, Brandon K. Pierce Blount, DeKalb, Etowah, Mobile and Tuscaloosa counties, and are requesting federal assistance for the citizens who live there. We will continue to work with our local and federal partners to get help to the people that need it.” Workers attempt to clean up the street at the intersection of Gault Avenue North and 12th street NW Additional counties may be included in the disaster in Fort Payne around 1 p.m. on Tuesday, May 6, 2014. These blocks scattered across the busy highway declaration based on continuing damage assessments. while workers were attempting to teardown a building. Luckily, they fell when there was no traffic in the area and workers on the scene said no one was injured.
Fallen wall blocks roadway
DeKalb County Sheriff Jimmy Harris states that in mid-April the Sheriff’s Office received a complaint about forged checks being disbursed to local businesses. These checks are written on Wachovia Bank checks in the form of a payroll check from various businesses and schools throughout DeKalb, Jackson, and Marshall Counties. The checks are all counterfeit made to different individuals. This is an ongoing investigation and anyone that may have information or have received any of these checks are urged to notify the Sheriff’s Office at 256-845-3801.
On Thursday, May 1, 2014, DeKalb County Deputy Kody Oliver was on patrol through the tornado damaged areas on county road 4 & 25 in the Aroney area when he performed a traffic stop on a pickup truck driven by Buffy Rogers, 35,
of Crossville. Deputy Oliver saw indicators which led him to do a consented search of the vehicle. Oliver, who is one of the K-9 deputies, took his K-9 around the vehicle, where it alerted to the driver side door. After further investigation of the
vehicle, Deputy Oliver found methamphetamine and drug paraphernalia. The on call drug task force officer was then notified. When Deputy Oliver attempted to arrest Rogers, she pulled away and resisted. She was then
arrested for unlawful possession of controlled substance, unlawful Buffy Rogers possession of drug paraphernalia, and resisting arrest.