Members of the
Martin Police Department are investigating last
Wednesday night’s theft of over $8,000 worth of
tobacco products from the trailer of a
semi-truck that was parked at Days Inn located
at 800 University Street.
According
to Martin Police Captain Scott Robbins, the
truck driver, who is from Gallatin Tennessee,
told police that someone had cut the lock on his
trailer sometime between 10 p.m. Wednesday night
and 5 a.m. Thanksgiving morning.
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Local Guardsmen hoping to be
home for the holidays |
Several Weakley
County residents serving with Company A, 230
Engineers have hopes of making it home for the
holidays, following a recent announcement that
their tour of duty is about to wind down.
Members of the
unit, who left for Kuwait on January 9, 2005,
were elated when they recently received
notification from Lieutenant Colonel Lee E.
Tafanelli, commanding officer of 891st
Battalion, that if all goes according to plan,
they may be redeploying back to the United
States soon and be home in time for Christmas.
In an email sent
to local members of the Family Readiness Group,
Tafanelli stated intentions are to depart Iraq
sometime during the first week of December.
Although not allowed to communicate specific
dates in order to protect out-going and
in-coming soldiers, Tafanelli anticipates
soldiers returning to their home armories
sometime during the third week in December.
“We still have
much work to do here and our soldiers are busy
conducting current operations, preparing for our
transition with out replacements and beginning
the deployment process.
“Over the next
few weeks, soldiers will be packing up
equipment, going through briefings and medical
screenings as well as a myriad of other
redeployment tasks in preparation for our return
home,” he wrote.(Read the rest of this story and much more new in the
November 30th edition of the Dresden Enterprise.)
