ABOUT THAT REWARD

Most of the $130,000 reward offered for help in catching fugitives Ricky Dubose and Donnie Russell Rowe has been handed out, and all of it should be paid soon, officials said. Since the money came from different entities, its distribution has been piecemeal.

Last month, the Georgia Bureau of Investigation handed out its share of the reward — $20,000. Half went to the elderly couple Dubose and Rowe tied up and allegedly held captive for three hours before they were caught. The couple called police to report a home invasion minutes after the two fugitives left their home in their Jeep. The other half of the GBI reward money was paid to the homeowner to whom Debose and Rowe surrendered after almost three days on the lam.

On Friday, Putnam County Sheriff Howard Sills traveled to Tennessee to pass out the portion of the reward that he had raised, more than $90,000. Sills said $5,000 first went to the driver of the Honda that Dubose and Rowe allegedly carjacked moments after escaping so he could replace his car; the interior of the Honda was essentially destroyed by crime scene technicians.

He said the rest of it was going to be split three ways — to the homeowner, the elderly couple and the informant who was key to tracking the two to Tennessee even as authorities there were pursuing two men they thought at the time had only committed a home invasion.

The FBI has initiated the process for dispensing the remaining $20,000, but the federal bureaucracy takes longer.