Trustee escapes from jail
By Elizabeth Billips lizbillips@yahoo.com
      Deputies are searching for an inmate who walked away from the Burke County Jail. Yesterday (Tuesday) morningtrusteeJerry Lee Jones, 44, was doing custodial work in the sheriff's office when he slipped away. Sgt.
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Golden China robbed Saturday night
By Brandon Philpot Philpot_brandon@colstate.edu
      A Golden China employee was robbed at gunpoint while locking up Saturday night. According to a report filed at the Waynesboro Police Department, Daisy Lawerence was leaving the business around 10 p.m. when she was rushed and robbed by three black males with t-shirts covering their faces.
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Judge awaits return of defendant in pornography case
By Anne Marie Kyzer annemariek@thetruecitizen.com
      A former Waynesboro animal control officer is clear across the country while nine felony counts related to pornography and the exploitation of children await him in Burke County.
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From the Blotter
      Packing meat Two shoplifters were jailed after one of them tried to hide seven packages of meat in his pants. According to a report filed at the Waynesboro Police Department, Wal-Mart employees alerted officers last Tuesday night when a couple, later identified as Kenneth Bernard Johnson, 42, and Buffy Davis, 37, began acting suspiciously around the meat coolers.
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Waynesboro Police
      The following arrests and citations were reported by the Waynesboro Police Department for the past week: Friday, June 19 • Jeffrey O'Neal Ellison, 26, of West Eighth Street, Waynesboro, was arrested for simple battery and cruelty to children in the first degree (felony).
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Rapist handed 25-year jail term
Sentences handed down in Cornerstore robbery, farm equipment thefts, shooting
By Anne Marie Kyzer annemariek@thetruecitizen.com
      A man convicted of holding his former girlfriend hostage and raping her during an hours-long standoff with authorities will spend the next quarter-century in prison. Ryan Pernack, 21, was sentenced to 25 years in prison with no chance of parole followed by probation for the remainder of his life by Superior Court Judge James G. Blanchard Jr.
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Arrest made in church burglary
By Elizabeth Billips lizbillips@yahoo.com
      A Waynesboro man has been jailed for burglary after he allegedly tried to rip off a church whose members took pity on him. According to Investigator Claude Wade of the Waynesboro Police Department, the trouble started when tools began disappearing from the social room at Calvary Tabernacle Church on Waters Street.
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