And.... Winner!

Every once in awhile, your bets pay off. This photo from August came about as a result of listening to the scanner and dropping everything when i heard the word "shooting," which turned out to be incorrect. He merely claimed to be shot to try and keep the local cops from searching his car and finding a copious amount of drugs and ammunition. After finding that out, i worked the scene to find a good shot of him in the back of the car. Him yelling to a friend "Don't leave me, bro" was simply icing on the cake.




1st Place Spot News August 2007 NPPA Region 6

Twenty-two year-old Christopher Rex Conway yells out the back of an Athens Clarke County Police car on Glenhaven Ave. on Tuesday, August 21, 2007 after being arrested on multiple drug related charges after Conway was spotted driving recklessly and fled from police. After being stopped, Conway initially told police that he had been shot (he was not) and his vehicle was searched, revealing a large sum of cash, ziploc bags of marijuana, other drugs and ammunition. Conway is charged with posession of marijuana with intent to distribute, two counts possession of marijuana within 1,000’ of a School, possession of marijuana within 1,000’ of Housing, possession of a schedule II drug, possession of a schedule IV drug, reckless driving, and fleeing/attempting to elude.