Cartersville Daily Tribune News Rome man impaled on fence post in Marietta wreck

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MARIETTA — A Rome man was listed in critical condition after crashing through a chain link fence and becoming impaled on one of its posts Saturday.

Marietta police said Timothy Buford was driving his 2011 Ford F-150 southbound on Church Street in Marietta at about 6:50 a.m. when he left the roadway for unknown reasons.

The vehicle ran through the fence and into a short retaining wall before coming to rest in the parking lot of 700 Church St.

Police said one of the fence posts broke through the windshield, impaling Buford. He was taken to nearby Kennestone Hospital with life-threatening injuries.

According to a Go Fund Me page, Buford received emergency surgery for a traumatic chest injury resulting in the total reconstruction of his upper right chest and the removal of the upper lobe of his right lung. The page says Buford is in the intensive care unit and is critical but stable. According to the site, Buford lives in Rome and was commuting to Marietta where he works as a contractor at Lockheed. Marietta Daily Journal

Cartersville man caught with 28 pounds of meth in Alabama

CARTERSVILLE — Two men were arrested on drug trafficking charges when deputies with the Baldwin County Sheriff’s Office in Alabama discovered approximately 28 pounds of methamphetamine in the trunk during a traffic stop last week.

According to a Baldwin Sheriff’s Office release, one of the men arrested was 25-year-old Kevin Silva Tavares, of Cartersville. Tavares is in jail on $305,000 bond, charged with receiving stolen property and trafficking a controlled substance.

Jose Luis Arias Castillo, 47, of Mexico, was the other man involved and is in jail on a $1 million bond, charged with trafficking.

Both men were arrested after the Kia Optima driven by Tavares was stopped by Baldwin County deputies near mile marker 53 eastbound on Interstate 10 on Jan. 9. The registered owner of the vehicle was not in the car.

Tavares told police the two were going to the Tampa area from Houston to work for approximately two months, according to the release.

Castillo claimed to be traveling from Dallas to an undisclosed city in Florida to simply view the city. Both subjects had several articles of religious paraphernalia on their person and throughout the vehicle, according to the release.

A search also revealed an aftermarket speaker box in the trunk.

“The box was extremely heavy and after using a handheld X-ray machine, images of several bundles were shown being concealed,” according to the release. “Once open, it was discovered to be approximately 28 pounds of (methamphetamine). A stolen firearm was also discovered in the vehicle.”