Coffee County Sheriff Doyle Wooten has confirmed an inmate assigned to a work detail at the Child Advocacy Center in Douglas walked off from his work detail this afternoon and is still missing. The inmate, identified as 36-year-old Gabriel Benjamin Carelock, was assigned to a work a detail remodeling the Child Advocacy Center and had been on the detail for three weeks. Sheriff Wooten stated the guard assigned to Carelock told the sheriff Carelock had stepped outside to saw some plywood and took flight. Carelock was incarcerated on a contempt order for child support and traffic violations. He is not…
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It’s a rare occasion when I pen an article using a first-person format. Due to the nature of this piece, however, I find it not only necessary, but really the only way of conveying the message to the reader. DouglasNow.com officially kicked off its web presence midnight, June 23, 2014. Since that time, we have experienced growth, readership, support, revenue and a tremendous amount of positive feedback which has exceeded anything we could have fathomed. To put it in perspective, in the last month, July 8-Aug. 7, DouglasNow.com has received 79, 941 ‘page views,’ according to an analysis provided by…
Law enforcement officials confirmed late Friday night that the remains of a human body were discovered adjacent to an assisted living home in Nicholls. Agents with the Georgia Bureau of Investigation, along with the Coffee County Sheriff’s Office, were conducting a search and excavation at an outbuilding located on the property of Rosewood Manor, 1107 Tanner Avenue, where the remains were found. Officials with the sheriff’s office stated they had received a tip that the body of a male may have been buried on the property. The name and age of the deceased has not been divulged at this time,…
A collaborative effort on the parts of the Douglas/Coffee County Drug Unit (DCDU) and the Douglas Police Department last week resulted in the discovery of multiple bags of marijuana set to be distributed and the arrest of one Coffee County man. Authorities report that around 6:30 p.m., July 29, the DCDU was contacted by the police department to assist with a case being investigated at a residence inside the city limits. Drug agents, along with the assistance of the local police, conducted a search of the home and were able to locate 17 bags of suspected marjuana packaged for distribution.…
Getting arrested is never fun. Getting arrested for allegedly urinating on your mother’s property in plain view of the general public is, well, just embarrassing. However, this is exactly what happened to 48-year-old Carlos Defranco Jackson last week. Officers with the Douglas Police Department responded to an address on South Pearl Avenue at around four o’clock in the afternoon, where they were meant by a complainant who advised Jackson had been drinking all day and, as stated in the official report, “he has been peeing on his mother’s property.” The complainant told police he wanted Mr. Jackson removed from the…
Perhaps many of us dream of having an adventure in life, but not so many of us follow through on it. In Coffee County, we have but to look within our own ranks to find someone who has followed his dreams for adventure and has done so in a really big way. Ron Morris came to Douglas in 1972 as a student and baseball player at South Georgia College. He came here from the Atlanta area, where his father worked with Delta Airlines. After excelling on Clyde Miller’s South Georgia College teams, Ron moved on to Georgia Southern, where he…
Don Lewis, FACHE, FHFMA, Coffee Regional Medical Center’s Vice President and Chief Financial Officer since 1996, has announced his retirement from the medical center, effective Aug. 22, 2014. Mr. Lewis states, “This is the perfect set of circumstances and timing to allow me and Rosemary to write another chapter in life’s journey. Our CRMC family and the community have made these past 18 years extremely rewarding and we will cherish the many memories and the friends we have made during our time in Douglas. Both of our adult daughters reside in Charleston, S.C., so we are preparing for a move…
Edward Jones Investments, one of the nation’s leaders in the financial services industry, has opened another outlet in Douglas in hopes of better serving the financial needs of area residents. The company’s newest office is located at 918 N. Madsion Ave. in Douglas in the former location of now-retired longtime Douglas attorney Jim Hudson. The building has been completely renovated as part of Edward Jones’ commitment to being a long-lasting establishment in the community. “We are very pleased to be here and are looking forward to helping not only Douglas and Coffee County grow as a viable, economic community, but…
Monday morning, the Heritage Station Museum celebrated its reopening with a well-attended ribbon cutting in front of the museum, which is located at 219 West Ward Street, just a short walk from downtown Douglas. “Coffee County Historical Society members have been busy getting the museum ready for this event,” says Carol Morgan, President of the Coffee County Historical Society. “We are currently working on developing a research area and inventorying items at the museum.” The Heritage Station Museum, once an old railroad depot, originally opened in 1999. The museum features a variety of permanent exhibits commemorating local history. The Coffee…
It is a persistent problem and one that could ultimately result in dire consequences; individuals who neglect to properly display the assigned numeric of their homes and businesses in the county. “Probably over 50% of residences in the county do not have their numbers properly visible,” estimated Coffee 911 representative Kesha Taylor during the regular meeting of the Coffee County Commission on Monday. “This presents major problems for emergency personnel when they are trying to locate places they are dispatched. Obviously, it has a great potential to cut down on response time and could be catastrophic. Every minute, every second…