Background: Estes Road in Macon County where the Buckland family attacked workers with a rival paving company (Google Maps). Inset: Paving workers in Monroe County, Georgia (WMAZ/YouTube).
Members of a family in Georgia that owns paving companies throughout the state are facing criminal charges for allegedly attacking employees working for a rival business using baseball bats, sticks and other weapons — including a “cowboy-style pistol” — after they spotted them doing a job by one of their houses, police say.
The Buckland family, according to cops, found the job “disrespectful” and allegedly set upon the EH Paving crew on Dec. 19 while they were on a job in Monroe County at a neighbor’s house on Estes Road, per the local CBS affiliate WMAZ, which cited the incident report.
“Like something out of the Sopranos TV series,” Monroe County Sheriff Brad Freeman told WMAZ over the weekend.
Authorities took six members of the Buckland family into custody for the attack after it unfolded, with the eldest — Mark Buckland Sr., 77 — being accused of using the “long cowboy-style gun” to scare and intimidate EH Paving workers by firing it off into the woods. His son, Mark Buckland Jr., 58 allegedly incited everything.
