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By CLIFF WILLIAMS Staff Writer
By DONALD CAMPBELL Staff Writer
For those living in central Tallapoosa County, nature provided an alarm clock of a different kind Tuesday morning. A heavy storm cell moved over the area, dropping buckets of rain along with plenty of thunder and lightning to boom across the early morning sky. “There was a mid-level trough sitting across central Alabama, and with a vortex just south of Tallapoosa County, everything came together to make the heavy rainstorm we saw (Tuesday) morning,” said Meteorologist with the Birmingham office of the National Weather Service Tara Goggins. “At 6:56 a.m., an areal flood advisory was issued by the National Weather Service. At See STORM • Page A7
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This culvert on Flint Hill Place caved in with the Tuesday morning rain.
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Coosa grow house, Camp Hill shot house taken down by investigators
Coosa and state agents uncover elaborate pot growing operation STAFF REPORT TPI Staff
A search warrant that resulted from an ongoing operation led Coosa County Sheriff’s Office investigators and agents with ALEA’s SBI Narcotics Bureau to an elaborate hydroponic marijuana grow operation, complete with grow lights, timers, irrigation, fertilization and more Friday. The findings led to the arrest of two men and the seizure of 62 marijuana plants, the grow house equipment, other illegal narcotics and weapons including an assault rifle. The discovery was in the Hanover community on See BUST • Page A2
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Top, investigators pose with part of the take from a Friday bust on Coosa Road 75 where a grow operation was in place and Anthony Grogan and Randolph Trent Pearce were arrested. Just above, agents take illegal liquor from a Camp Hill residence where Tommy Lee Evans was arrested on multiple charges.
‘Sweet Daddy Soul’ arrested in Tuesday raid By MITCH SNEED Editor
What law enforcement officials described as an oldfashioned shot house in Camp Hill was busted Tuesday morning,
leading to the arrest of one local man and the seizure of alcohol, marijuana, drug paraphernalia and a handgun. The Tallapoosa County Narcotics See SWEET DADDY • Page A7 Evans
Camp Hill is scrambling to continue the police coverage it once had following the termination of one police officer and the demotion of another. Sgt. Johnny Potts, who was formerly chief of police in Camp Hill, said the changes in the police department were made by Mayor Ezell Smith. “She fired Lt. Coley,” Potts said. “And demoted me to sergeant. She told me I was no longer needed as chief and put me on third shift and took my take home vehicle away.” The move means Camp Hill has only two police officers at this time. Potts said the mayor has been telling them when to work and is unsure of the coverage during the day. “The mayor made the schedule,” Potts said. “She has us both of us working nights. I think she has talked to the sheriff’s department about coverage during the day.” Potts thinks he See POLICE • Page A2
Local funeral homes to present ‘The Carolina Boys Quartet’
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The annual concert presented by Langley and Radney Funeral Homes to benefit the Tallapoosa Christian Crisis Center and Loaves and Fishes will be held Thursday evening at the Benjamin Russell High School auditorium in Alexander City. Presenting this year’s musical entertainment is the singing group The Carolina Boys Quartet. Based out of Anderson, South Carolina, the nationally known group performs Southern gospel music, and has half a dozen different CDs of their work available for purchase online. “It turns out their tenor singer is a funeral home director in South Carolina,” said Radney Funeral Home Owner Randy Anderson. Anderson met the group member at a national convention of funeral directors. After listening to some of the group’s
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The Carolina Boys Quartet will be in concert Thursday night at the BRHS auditorium.
music, he invited the quartet down to sing at Rocky Creek Baptist Church last October, and also decided to invite them to this event as well.
The concert has been held annually for nearly a decade, and always helps bring in much-needed food items to the local food See CONCERT • Page A7
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