More on the story is available here: http://www.wolfcreekbroadcasting.com/artman/publish/article_8409.shtml

At any rate, these people are a clearly a danger to themselves and others. The charge should be ATTEMPTED MURDER. If there was ever a case for a bond of $500,000 to $1,000,000, this is it.

edited to add: As per the Sentinel article there is no such charge as "attempted murder" in Georgia.

FYI, Aggravated Assault is Attemted Murder in GA

So much for the hope of an honest Sheriff.

My peeps at WSB say that the GBI isn't confirming Eller's arrest as of 5:00 pm today.

Not every valid substantiated fact has a webpage.
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Back to the issue at hand... I heard something about a barn buring sky-"high" last night. Another about two canaries singing and 40 warrants being served today. I just wondered what the real scoop is?

I believe you, of course.

"The secret of life is honesty and fair dealing..if you can fake that, you've got it made. There's one way to find out if a man is honest; ask him! If he says yes you know he's crooked." --- Groucho Marx

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Its not you Star. I'm just illustrating a tad of discrimination.

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Eller says he's not resigning... but he should. At a minimum, he is not intellectually capable of making good hiring decisions. This didn't just involve one deputy; it involved two. That alone is a high enough percentage of his tiny staff to indicate a mindset. More significantly, the leader was his hand-picked Chief Deputy. Obviously there was talk among at least two or more before this happened. I'm not naive enough to think that other deputies, maybe even Eller, didn't know what was up and did nothing - or worse.

If he were serious, Eller would take steps to assure the public that his department has the capacity and the willingness to prevent their own psychotic deputies from from committing drive-by shootings. These guys would have been arrested immediately-not a day later. Instead, his office effected a day-long delay which allowed plenty of time to cover-up important evidence.

Assuming that he didn't know in advance, Eller wasn't serious enough to have policies in place to weed out dangerous psychokillers (alledged, but caught in the act) from the Sheriff's department. That - and other things I know about his past - is why I believe Eller isn't morally fit nor bright enough to be a chief executive of anything more complicated than a sandbox.

Does it matter that no one died? I don't believe that it does. They didn't care whether there might have been children in that house. If they had suceeded we'd be talking about two murderers who were hand-picked by Eller.

I haven't forgotten that Eller has been quick to falsly accuse innocent people of attempting to do what his own chief and senior officers actually did. His judgement is exactly backward from that of a good decent Sheriff.

Towns and Union citizens deserve assurance that there are no drive-by hit men on their payroll. I know otherwise.

see link.
http://www.accessnorthga.com/news/hall/newfullstory.asp?ID=115809

Naturally, I grabbed the local newspaper which came out on Thursday (I hadn't had time to read it) and read the whole story.

No motive was given or speculated upon, not even by the victims. Only the sequence of events were reported.

The shooting happened on July 8 near midnight.

Evidently, the building they shot into is a workshop with an apartment attached. The owner was in the bedroom of the apartment and an employee was working in the shop.

The employee in the workshop saw the lights of a car pass by, going uphill to the dead-end road. It turned around at the neighbor's house, then made a complete pass by the building heading back to Highway 75. A very short time later, he heard the car coming back again. The first two shots were fired into the shop - aiming at a flashing light they keep in the window to scare off thieves.

The remaining shots went into the apartment. The owner was watching TV in the bedroom when he heard two shots. He thought something had blown up. But when he heard bullets come through his door, he jumped behind the bed. He said he normally sits in the kitchen, where most of the shots landed.

A jelly jar was shattered. Two bullets went through the bedroom door. One bullet was stopped by the metal door of a dryer. The shower was also hit.

Casings were found near the mailbox. 14 shots were fired in total by a 40-caliber gun.

The owner of the building moved here in 1979 and says he never had a problem until lately. The employee has lived here most of his life.

Quote: "The owner contacted the Towns County Sheriff's Department immediately after the shooting. Two officers responded to the call. The next day, Towns County Investigator Robert Kern and Captain Pat Williams inspected the scene."

All these facts were from the Towns County Herald - Thursday, July 19, 2007 edition.

HOLY COW! DID THESE GUYS THINK THEY WERE GOING TO GET AWAY WITH MURDER? WHAT IS THE MOTIVE?

When I first moved to Towns County in early 2005, I saw something in the newspaper about a new sheriff being elected, and there was a letter that referenced the previous sheriff. It mentioned that people were afraid of the previous sheriff and that they hoped the new sheriff would change all that.

I thought that letter in the newspaper was very disturbing at the time, but never heard another word about it.

Well, evidently, the new sheriff isn't exactly what people were hoping for either?

I am going to start asking around about this story. I am too new to the area to know anything. Even my neighbor across the street, who has been here for years, is a fountain of knowledge.

Towns County has never "felt" like a place where the police were out of control. They seemed pretty laid back, which I chalked up to this being such a retirement town.

I guess looks can be deceiving, eh?

Wildflower

That will be interesting.

Wildflower

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It isn't simply "good ole boy" law enforcement. Anywhere else in Georgia this type of evil isn't tolerated. Frankly, all Georgians deserve honesty and transparency in both law enforcement and reporting.

The first amendment's entire purpose is to protect the free speech and right of assembly of whistle-blowers and those who have the courage to speak up against the evil and corruption in your government.

I learned the hard way that in Towns and Union there might as well be no first amendment (or fourth either for that matter.)

"Anywhere else in Georgia this type of evil isn't tolerated"

Gumbee my friend, you have not been very many places in the state of Georgia.

More on point here-I just hope folks realize that the money always goes someplace. It has to be laundered (legitimized) in order to fly under the DEA/IRS/ATFE radar. Who do ya'll think has been laundering the money?

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