Dodge County Sheriff’s Deputies, Dodge EMS, and Roddy Volunteer Fire Department First Responders responded to an accident at a residence near Roddy last Wednesday evening, July 29, 2009 at approximately 8:24 p.m.
Emergency personnel arrived to find that a two-year-old male child, Wyatt Dains, had been run over in a driveway by a vehicle and had sustained head trauma. The child was in critical condition when emergency personnel arrived and was transported to Dodge County Hospital. The child was later air-lifted to the Medical Center of Central Georgia in Macon, where the child died of his injuries on Thursday afternoon.
The accident investigation was turned over to the Georgia State Patrol. The vehicle was driven by Christy Dains, of Cochran, who was the child’s mother. The investigation revealed that when the mother left out of the residence, the child was in the grandmother’s lap. The mother did not see the child come out of the residence and did not know the child was in the driveway. There were no charges filed in this tragic accident.
The Eastman Fire Department and Dodge County Deputies responded to two (2) different vehicle fires at separate residences on McQueen Drive just off the WPA Road early Friday morning around 3:00 a.m. July 31, 2009. A 2007 Kia, belonging to Hope Ivey, was a total loss due to the fire. In addition, a 1994 Chevy Cavalier, belonging to Ray Triplett, was also discovered to have been partially burned. Sheriff’s Investigators have ruled both fires as arson and are investigating leads in case.
Sheriff’s Deputies have been busy lately serving parole, child support and bad check warrants throughout the county. As of late Monday afternoon there were sixty-nine (69) inmates incarcerated in the Dodge County jail.
The Sheriff’s Office has received numerous complaints over the last several weeks of citizens being scammed out of money. One of the most common schemes involves people asking for money to go visit a sick or terminally ill loved one in another town or for needing money for food. Citizens often discover that the other neighbors have also given money to the scammer. Sheriff Jeff Hinson cautions people to check out a person’s story before just giving them cash. Sheriff Hinson said an alternative to giving the person cash is to offer to buy the person a meal at a restaurant, carry them to the grocery store, fill up the person’s gas tank, purchase the person a bus ticket, etc.
Sheriff Hinson encourages citizens to refer the person to some of the local churches and/or charity organizations who are better equipped to verify if the person is in need.
