re: Harvey Updyke update.... and tree update

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Wednesday morning, the Opelika-Auburn News has reported that the story whose genesis was apparently on the Birmingham television station has been determined to be incorrect. Instead, the News writes, “a Lee County (Ala.) grand jury has indicted the Alabama fan accused of poisoning the Toomer’s Oaks sometime after the 2010 Iron Bowl on multiple charges, including criminal mischief and the desecration of a venerated object.”

According to court documents, the grand jury indicted Harvey Updyke Jr. on two counts of first-degree criminal mischief, a felony charge; two counts of desecrating a venerated object, a misdemeanor charge; and two counts of unlawful damage, vandalism or theft of property from a farm animal or crop facility, a felony charge.

An arraignment has been scheduled for May 26, with a tentative trial date of June 20. And then, hopefully, within a week or so we’ll never again have to type the name “Harvey Updyke”.

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