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Police Reports

Bloomingdale

• Officers followed up another complaint of flowers, flower holders, and small statues being stolen from gravesites at Gravel Hill Cemetery. (It’s a low life scumbag that’ll steal from a graveyard! Officers, I’d really like to publish this perp’s photograph in the paper when you catch him!)

• An Officer noted a Chevy van turning off of Hwy 17 in what appeared to be an attempt to avoid a roadside checkpoint set up by the State Patrol. He pursued the van and made a traffic stop. A Mexican man was arrested for driving with no license.

• Around 1:30am, an Officer stopped a silver Saturn for making a left turn onto Cherry Street from Hwy 80 without using a turn signal. Dispatch advised that the car had been reported stolen in Effingham County. (See this week’s Effingham County Sheriff’s report about the two girls who went to Krystal!) The Officer placed the driver under arrest for theft by receiving stolen property. The woman complained that the owner had loaned her the car two days ago. He repeated that the Saturn had been reported stolen by the owner. He then prepared to have the car towed, and found a crack pipe on the passenger side floorboard. He showed it to the driver, and she said she had another one stuffed inside her underwear. A female Officer arrived from Port Wentworth, searched the woman, and confiscated the second crack pipe. The driver was then taken to jail.

• Officers responded to a report of a child being attacked by a bulldog. The mother of the child told Officers where the dog lived, and they responded to that residence to get the dog. The homeowner became very upset at the Officers being in his yard, and they explained what the dog had done. He said the dog belonged to his mother, and he was keeping it for her while she attended a funeral. The dog was turned over to Animal Control until the owner could meet with the Officers.

• An Officer clocked a Toyota Corolla at 88mph in a 70mph zone of I-16 and made a traffic stop. The driver, a Brunswick man, told him he didn’t have his driver’s license, that it was suspended. He was placed under arrest. The Officer then asked the two passengers for their licenses to see if the car could be driven by one of them, but the front seat passenger was also suspended and the back seat passenger had never bothered to get a license. The front seat passenger then became very argumentative, proclaiming that “This is BS! I’m gonna call my lawyer!” The Officers told him several times to be quiet while they tried to get the information on the rear seat passenger, but the man continued his cursing and was finally arrested for disorderly conduct.

• At 3:45am, an Officer spotted another Toyota Corolla weaving while eastbound on I-16. He made a traffic stop, and the Savannah man told him he didn’t speak very good English. He managed to get across that he didn’t have a driver’s license, and was placed under arrest for driving while unlicensed and DUI.

Garden City

• Officers responded to a fire at a mobile home park, and found a man fighting back the blaze with a garden hose. The Garden City Fire Department arrived and extinguished the blaze. The man pointed out his 2000 Ford Ranger pickup, that had been stuck in a ditch behind his home the previous night. It had become engulfed with the flames, but did not appear to be the source of the fire.

• A man reported that his Infiniti Q45 had been stolen. He said he’d left it at a Hwy 80 residence so that a man could do some repair work for him. When he stopped by to check on the progress on his car, he discovered the car was missing.

• A woman called Police to report that someone was stealing electricity from a home she was watching for the owner. When she walked into the home, she noticed an extension cord plugged into an outlet and running out the window and across a field. She pointed to a man’s house and said the man there didn’t have any electricity at his home. Officers met with the man, and he denied taking any electricity, adding that he uses flashlights and candles in his home. The Officers then asked him about the long extension cord outside his home, and the man said he was planning on using it when he got his power turned back on.

• Officers responded to a Dean Forest Road convenience store, where the owner explained that a man had come in, grabbed a plastic container holding over $500 worth of lottery tickets, and fled on foot. Police began searching the area for the man, and found him stumbling back towards the store, highly intoxicated. As they approached to ask him if he’d been in the store earlier, the man blurted several curse words and making the point that he hadn’t done anything wrong. They took the man back to the store where the owner positively identified him as the thief. The man was taken to jail on charges of theft by taking and public intoxication.

• A woman walked back outside her residence and discovered that someone had stolen her pet poodle, described as black with a white streak down the middle of it’s back and wearing a yellow collar with her phone number on it. (Sounds like she’s describing Pepé Lepew!)

• A convenience store clerk told Police that a customer came in and paid $250 cash for a money order. Before she could put the money in the cash register, a young man reached across the counter, grabbed the money and fled out the door. She said the thief is a regular customer, and would recognize him if he returns.

• Officers responded to a local 24 hour diner where a man told them he’d just been robbed at gunpoint at his home. He said he answered a knock at his door around midnight, and found a man with a gun standing there. The man walked inside and demanded his money. The man walked back to his bedroom and got his wallet, and handed the man the $3 he had inside. The thief then said “Three dollars isn’t worth getting shot over. Where’s the envelope?” The victim then handed over his envelope, containing $140. The thief then snatched the phone cord from the bedroom wall, and another from the kitchen wall. He then took the victim’s cell phone and walked out the front door. The victim quickly closed and locked the door, then heard a gunshot. After a short time, the man got in his car and searched the area for the thief and trying to locate an Officer. He finally drove to the restaurant and called Police from there.

• Officers responded to a Hwy 80 restaurant for a theft of services complaint. The manager said two men had left the restaurant without paying for their food. She alerted members of the Sheriff’s Department who were inside eating, and they detained the men after catching them across the highway. One had a friend who came and paid the bill for them, and both were given criminal trespass notices not to return.

Port Wentworth

• An Officer was stationary on Hwy 21 near Rice Hope Plantation around 10pm when he clocked a Guyton man at 70mph in the 55mph zone. He made a traffic stop, and noted that the driver was weaving erratically while pulling to the shoulder of the road. While explaining why he’d made the stop, he smelled the odor of alcohol on the man’s breath. He called another Officer to come and calm the man’s young daughter, then asked the man to submit to a field sobriety test. The man admitted that he’d had one beer. During the walk and turn test, the man stopped several times and said “I told you I been drinking.... and I’m having a tough time doing this.” The Officer placed him under arrest for DUI and had the child’s grandmother pick her up. The man became very defiant being placed in the rear of the patrol car, and screamed “I know the warden, and he’ll have your badge in the morning! I know people!” Later that night, he met several more people. They’re called cellmates. (And..., I have no doubt this guy knew the warden!)

• A convenience store manager reported the theft of 29 “300 Million” lottery tickets from his store. The Georgia Lottery Commission was notified, so if anyone tries to cash a winning stolen ticket....

• An Officer responded to the weigh station on I-95 after a Chatham County K-9 unit had a positive response on one of the trucks. A Social Circle, Georgia truck driver was arrested and taken to jail after methamphetamines were found inside a cigarette pack in the cab of the truck. (Smoking meth in an 18 wheeler southbound on I-95! Nah, that’s not gonna be dangerous!!)

• A construction manager asked Officers to patrol the work site after dark, saying that no one should be on the property. During one check, an Officer was walking around one of the construction trailers when a red pickup was cranked and began to leave the area. The Officer got the truck stopped and found a Rincon woman driving and a man in the passenger seat. The man gave the Officer a fake name and birth date, and once discovered, the man was arrested for that. A search of the truck led to charges against both for possession of drug related objects, controlled substance, and intent to distribute. A female Officer on the scene escorted the woman to the bathroom, and returned with more methamphetamine she’d found in the woman’s bra.

• The judge stopped a Guyton woman during her testimony at a felony case, and had her arrested for perjury. (I’m sorry. Was it the truth, the whole truth, or nothing but the truth that you didn’t understand?)

Effingham County Sheriff’s Office

• A South Carolina man threatened to return to the plant he had worked at with a gun to “take out his supervisor and some of the others.... I’ll just go postal.” (Are things that bad in South Carolina now?)

• A Deputy spotted a red GMC pickup run a stop sign in Springfield and made a traffic stop. The woman handed over her license and said she hadn’t obtained insurance on the truck yet. The Deputy discovered she hadn’t obtained a license plate for the truck either, as the one on the truck was from her old car and had already expired. She was taken to jail and her truck was towed.

• A Clyo man is missing two chain saws valued at $300 each, and another valued at $800. Someone removed them from the toolbox on the bed of his pickup overnight.

• A Faulkville man reported that someone had stolen his Interstate SP 30 battery from his lawn tractor, and replaced it with an older battery. (What kind of thief are you?! The other inmates are gonna laff their butts off when you tell them you actually replaced the battery you stole with an older one!)

• A man notified Deputies that his daughter’s screen name had been taken from her instant messenger service. It was taken by someone with the screen name boilermkr, who said she could have it back when he got a photo of something more than just her face. (And you’re gonna let her get back on that computer??? I’d be at the local union hall looking for boilermkr!)

• A Springfield man filed a report after finding that someone had used a JCB excavator to damage several of his pine trees. The vandals left the excavator on the man’s property. Deputies are investigating.

• Deputies were working a roadside safety checkpoint when they noticed a man make a quick right hand turn to avoid the stop. They followed him down several roads as he tried to elude them, finally stopping the car and fleeing on foot. The Deputies have issued a warrant for the man’s arrest.

• A Guyton man had just finished smoking some marijuana as he pulled up to the safety checkpoint. The Deputies immediately recognized the odor coming from the car, and found some of the drug still scattered on the man’s floorboard. He was taken to jail for possession of marijuana.

• A Faulkville man let two girls borrow his Saturn to run into the Krystals in Savannah around 1am for something to eat. They returned around 2:30am, and after eating, they went home, taking the man’s car again. He wanted it reported stolen. (If Krystal could sell as many burgers at lunch as they do at 1am, they’d sell more than McDonald’s!)

• A man reported his wife’s motorcycle, a 2000 Buell Blast with lightning bolt decals on the side, was stolen from beneath his carport over night. The bike is valued at $8000.

• A woman filed a report of harassment, telling Deputies that her neighbors call the Sheriff’s Office every Thursday night to complain that her dog’s barking is bothering them. The woman said she’s had a bark collar on her dog to remedy the problem, and noted that no other neighbors are complaining. She added that she’s had problems with those neighbors ever since a dispute over a privacy fence.

• An Officer clocked a man at 54mph in a 35mph zone of Hwy 21 and made a traffic stop. The man told him his license was suspended, but added that he was on his way to the hospital after suffering an on-the-job injury at work that afternoon. He said he’d been treated by EMS in Savannah, but refused to go to the hospital at that time. The Officer gave the man citations and a subpoena, and had his vehicle towed. The man was allowed to go on to the hospital.

• A man called Police to complain about a neighbor’s dog coming into his yard. The Officer’s went to the pet’s home, and the woman there explained that the dog belonged to her daughter. When asked for information, the woman replied that she wasn’t “going to take a ticket for this.” The Officer explained that it was just a warning, and then what could happen if there were future problems. The woman then said that the dog wasn’t hers, and that she didn’t own the house, she just rented it. The Officer explained that, whether she owned or rented, she could still be charged.

• An Officer was called to the probation office, where the Probation Officer told him about a man coming in for a drug test. She thought the man would be attempting to use urine other than his own. When the man showed up for his test, the Officer gave him a pat down search, and found a round cylinder object inside his shirt just above the waistband containing a yellow liquid that appeared to be urine. The container had the name “Clean Urine.com” on it. The man also had a probation warrant from Bloomingdale, and was turned over to an Officer from that department. (The Whizzinator makes it’s first appearance in Pooler!)

• A woman reported that two ATV’s had been stolen from her residence, one green and one orange with black plastic wires holding the fenders together.

• Police responded to another dog at large complaint where a man complained that a yellow lab had bitten him on his left leg. He said the owner should have the dog chained in his yard. The dog’s owner told the Officer that the man walked by and kicked his dog, and the dog simply acted defensively. (Clearly a case of self defense! Let Ole Yeller go!)

• An Officer was patrolling Pooler Parkway when he noticed a Chevy Silverado run off the road and onto the grassy median. He made a traffic stop, and a Pooler man was arrested for DUI.

• An Officer stopped a Bloomingdale man for speeding 70mph in a 50mph zone of Pooler Parkway near Pine Barren Road. The man said he didn’t have his license with him, and provided his name and date of birth. Dispatch advised the Officer that it came back “not found.” The Officer walked back to the driver, who then handed over his North Carolina license, which then came back suspended. The man was taken to jail. (I’ve seen Major Burke parked in that area too many times to go zipping along at 70mph!)

• Police responded to a residence several times during the past week where a woman wanted help getting her boyfriend thrown out of the home. Each time, the Officers explained the civil procedure for having someone evicted. On one instance, they arrived and found both subjects highly intoxicated. The woman was lying on the floor babbling incoherently. Both suspects proclaimed that one of them was “with child,” and then began arguing loudly and boisterously. The Officers warned both of the city ordinance for disorderly house and that their conduct would not be tolerated by the city of Pooler. (I say just lock ‘em up next time they call!)

• A woman returned home from her vacation cruise only to have her boyfriend tell her that her home had been burglarized. He explained that he didn’t want to ruin her good time, and didn’t bother with a Police report because he didn’t think they would do anything.She’s missing a DVD player, two color TV’s, a computer, a camera/printer dock, a Kellogg’s racing jacket, and an $80 fishing pole.