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www.MyMCR.net Vol. 47 No. 48
4 Sections 32 Pages Wednesday. November 28, 2018
Macon woman sues county over 3 months in jail after GBI says substance wasn} meth
SEE AD PAGE 2A
Dasha Fincher says
she spent three
months in jail for
having cotton candy.
By Will Davis
publJsher@mymcr.nef
A Macon woman is suing
Monroe County and a drug-
testing company; claiming she
was jailed for three months for
having what turned out to be
cotton candy and not meth.
Dasha Fincher, 41, is seeking
damages and attorney fees after
spending three months in the
Monroe County Jail after what
deputies, and a road-side drug
test, said was meth turned out
to be cotton candy. She filed her
civil rights lawsuit in U.S. Dis-
trict Court in Macon on Nov. 15.
Fincher was the passenger in
a 2004 Toyota Corolla pulled
over for having window tint
suspected of being too dark on
New Year's Eve 2016 on Hwy. 41
south near Bolingbroke.
The driver, David Morris Jr .
had a suspended license. Mon-
See LAWSUIT Page 6A j
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Cpl. Kevin Wil-
liams looks at a
bag of suspect-
ed meth during
a traffic stop of
Dasha Fincher
on Dec. 31, 2016.
Fincher claimed
it was cotton
candy but spent
four months in
jail. She sued
after the GBI
confirmed it
wasn't meth.
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A Mary Persons High School secretary
has been charged with stealing $2,800
from the basketball team's booster club.
An arrest warrant was issued on Tues-
day for Tiffany Buffington, a secretary at
the Freshman Campus.
MP principal Dr. Jim Finch appar-
ently learned of the missing funds last
week and took the matter to the Mon-
roe County sheriff's office on Nov. 19.
Investigator Chris Landers tbok out the
warrant for theft on Tuesday Landers said
that Buffington has admitted to taking the
money and is on administrative leave.
MP senior T.J. Morgan mourns after the Bulldogs' 10-7 loss to Marist in the state quarterfinals on a
cold, misty Friday at Dan Pitts Stadium. See full story on page 1C. (Photo/Will Davis)
Mary Johnson Harris
Clifford Lee Shaw. Jr.
Annie Faye Baffle
Ann Miter Hill
Evelyn J. Buckner
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By Diane Glidewell
news@mymcr.net
On Monday afternoon, Nov.
26, soldiers of Headquarters &
Headquarters Company, 2nd
Battalion, 121st Infantry (L),
48th Infantry Brigade Combat
Team assigned to the Geor-
gia National Guard Armory
in Forsyth departed to begin
a 12-month deployment that
will take them to Afghanistan.
Members of the Monroe County
community came out to line the
road as their buses departed,
waving flags and signs to show
support.
See DEPLOY Page 6A
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Members of the local National Guard unit told family members farewell on
Monday before their Middle East deployment. (Photos/Diane Glidewell)
A McDonough man was killed
instantly in a one-car wreck on
Hwy. 87 on Monday night.
Cameron Weber, 27, was south-
bound on Hwy. 87 near its inter-
section with Elbert Jackson Road
when he left the right shoulder,
over-corrected to the left shoulder
and struck a tree around 10:58
p.m said Ricky Davis of the
Monroe County Sheriff's Office.
Weber was driving a 2002
Mazda B3000. He was wearing
his seat belt, said Davis.
