BANKER CELEBRATING MILESTONE (Citizens Bank will be celebrating Walter Glenn Birdwell’s 90th birthday Friday, November 30, at the bank.) Well-known Carthage banker Walter Glenn Birdwell Jr. doesn’t keep bankers’ hours. Approaching the age of 90, the Carthage native arrives to work at Citizens Bank’s Carthage headquarters at 7 a.m. The day usually ends at 4…

TRAFFIC STOP NETS 2 SUSPECTS A traffic stop made by the sheriff’s department’s canine unit resulted in multiple drug related charges. Sgt. Ridge Long stopped a vehicle traveling on Dixon Springs Highway for speeding. According to an offense report filed by Sgt. Long, the officer smelled a strong odor of “raw marijuana” coming from the…

MAN WHO FLED FROM HWY PATROL JAILED A man who allegedly fled from the Tennessee Highway Patrol in a stolen vehicle before abandoning it near Gordonsville and is a habitual traffic offender is now in the county jail. Richard Scott Patterson, 33, Nashville, has been charged with evading arrest, tampering with or fabricating evidence, driving…

15LBS OF MARIJUANA WAX LOCATED 3 PEOPLE ARRESTED AFTER INVESTIGATION Three people face drug charges after a concerned citizen reported suspicious activity taking place in the parking lot of a department store. Upon investigating, law enforcement authorities located 15.2 pounds of marijuana wax and 3.2 ounces of hashish. The concerned citizen contacted the sheriff’s department…