Guns get golf course owner in trouble

Sam Smedley, the owner of the Wetlands Golf Course outside Aberdeen, was arrested Saturday after allegedly firing guns out his pickup truck window while making obscene gestures at a woman who has fought his proposed development.

Over the past two years, residents of the neighboring Locksley Manor subdivision have complained that Smedley has tried to intimidate and harass them for their continued opposition to the land?s annexation into Aberdeen and the development that would follow. Around 5:40 p.m. Saturday, neighbors say, police caught him in the act.