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Police Reports

Georgia State Patrol

• Two New York men were driving south on I-95 when they got pulled over by a State Trooper. The Trooper walked up and tapped on the window with his nightstick. The driver rolled down the window and "WHACK," the Officer smacked him in the head with his nightstick.

"What the heck was that for?" the driver asked.

"You're in Georgia, son," the trooper answered. "When we pull you over in Georgia, you better have your license ready by the time we get to your car."

"I'm sorry, officer" the driver said, "I'm from New York and didn't know your laws here."

The trooper runs a check on the guy's license-- he's clean and gives the guy his license back. The trooper then walks around to the passenger side and taps on the window. The passenger rolls down the window and "WHACK," ...the trooper smacks him on the head with the nightstick.

"What'd you do that for?" the passenger demands.

"Just making your wish come true," replied the trooper."

"Making WHAT wish come true?" the passenger asked.

"Because I know you New Yorkers," the trooper says, "two miles down the road you're gonna turn to your buddy and say, 'I wish that jerk would've tried that crap with me!"

Rincon

• A man and his son called Police after they awoke around 7am and found the son’s wallet and his Camaro missing from his home. A man that has been staying with them apparently left the home around 3am, and took the items with him. The wallet contained $300 cash.

• An Officer observed a Pontiac Grand Am crossing over the centerline on Hwy 21 going very slow around 3:45am. The driver turned onto East 4th Street, and the Officer followed. When she crossed the centerline a couple more times, he made a traffic stop. The woman’s license was checked and was valid. Her insurance, however, had expired the prior week. The Officer noticed the odor of alcohol on her breath, and had her take a field sobriety test, which she failed. The woman explained that she was unsteady on her feet even when she was sober. She was taken to the Police Station, where she only blew a .031, well below the .08 designation for DUI. She was released with a citation for the no insurance, and her car was towed.

• Police responded to a residence in the early morning hours where family members suspected a man was contemplating suicide. On both visits, the Officers found the man was depressed over tax, financial, and marital problems, but did not seem intent on harming himself, and told the Officers that he would be starting marriage consoling next week. (Sign me up for the marriage consoling! All of us married guys need some of that! I think what this guy really needs is marriage counseling.)

Bryan County Sheriff’s Office

• Around 10pm, a Deputy noticed a southbound pickup on Hwy 17 with no tail lights. He made a traffic stop, and a Richmond Hill man was arrested for driving while suspended.

• A Richmond Hill woman filed a report after she found that her debit card had been used to make two purchases, one for $725 and another for $800, at a computer store in Fort Lauderdale. The woman said her account number must have been stolen while she was making online purchases from a website.

• A Deputy made a traffic stop on a red pickup turning onto Olive Branch Road from Hwy 280 when he noticed the tail lights were broken. The driver was taken to jail for driving while suspended.

Pooler

• A Rincon woman filed a report with Officers after she ran over a metal rake left in her lane of travel on southbound I-95. The rake blew out her right front tire and caused her passenger air bags to deploy.

• An Officer was running radar on southbound Pooler Parkway near Pine Barren Road when he clocked a southbound motorcycle at 77mph in the 50mph zone. He also noticed the rider wasn’t wearing his helmet. He got the bike stopped near old Quacco Road, and smelled alcohol on the Savannah man’s breath. Due to heavy traffic and the narrow roadway, he wasn’t able to administer a field sobriety test. The man was taken to the Police Department, where he blew a .172. He was arrested for DUI. A patsearch also turned up two vials of steroids in his rear pocket, and two syringes in his boot. Additional charges will be filed if the steroids test positive as banned substances.

• An Officer was on patrol around 11:30pm when he found a New York man sleeping next to a closed convenience store beside his motorcycle. The man said he was on his way to Tampa and had run out of gas and money. The Officer let him use his cell phone to call family in Florida to bring him one or the other.

• An Officer found a man walking along eastbound I-16 around 3am. The man said he’d been drinking at a Pooler bar and was walking home to Ellabell. The Officer gave him a ride to a pay phone on Hwy 280. (Gotta love the Pooler Police!)

• A Meldrim woman damaged her radiator when she forgot that she’d parked her Chevy Trailblazer in front of a short wooden post.

• A man called Police to report that someone had left a bottle of tee-tee in his mailbox, inside a bag marked with vulgar language. The man suspects a former employee whom he’d fired when he found him asleep at work.

• A North Carolina woman was making a left turn onto Pooler Parkway from a side street when the right rear tire on her Ford Explorer fell off, damaging the axle and the wheel well.

• A Rincon man was arrested for shoplifting after he entered the store and told the clerk he was returning an item for a refund. Security personnel watched the man as he went to the electronics department rather than the customer service desk. He removed five video games, and the magnatron devices on them, placed the games into the empty box he’d brought in, and tried to leave the store without paying for them. (To the best of my knowledge, jail cells don’t come equipped with Playstation 2’s! ...Not yet, at least!)

• A group of workers from the Sam’s Club jobsite returned to their pickup truck parked nearby at quitting time. Apparently there were three men, and one man was chosen by the other two to have to be the one to sit in the middle for their ride back home to Springfield. As a joke, they locked that man out of the truck for a short moment. When the passenger, the lucky one who got the window seat, opened the door, the other man punched him in the face, breaking his nose. The offender fled the area on foot, and the other two made a quick trip to Effingham County Hospital.

• Police were dispatched to a vehicle in a ditch on Hwy 80. An Officer arrived to find a woman stumbling around her car, and it didn’t take long to notice the odor of alcohol on the woman’s breath. EMS was called to check the woman’s health, and they said other than being intoxicated, she was fine. The Officer asked her to give a preliminary breath test, but the woman was too drunk to blow into the sensor. She managed to tell him she was trying to get to her home in Savannah, and had missed the driveway she was trying to turn around in. She was arrested for DUI and taken to jail, where she blew a .325, over four times the legal limit.

• A Savannah man is wanted for theft of an automobile he rented from a Garden City business. The man rented a red Hyundai Sonata on April 27th with an understanding that it needed to be returned by May 16th. The business has not heard from the man since he drove off, and certified letters sent to him have been returned. (If that was the plan, I think I’d have rented something besides a Hyundai Sonata! Make that anything besides a Hyundai Sonata!!)

Port Wentworth

• A case of road rage ended up with a confrontation at the gas pumps in a convenience store parking lot. A man in a Chevy Blazer told Police that an older man in a Ford Mustang turned around on Hwy 21 and pulled up at the pumps where the Blazer was gassing up. The older man got out, cursing and screaming at the man, reached into the Blazer and attacked him. The man said he kicked the older man to get him to back off. When he did, the older man grabbed his driver’s side door and slammed it into the pump guard post, severely denting the door. Witnesses confirmed the man’s story and agreed to show up in court. The Officer traced the tag to a Port Wentworth man and called him. The man told a different story, but agreed he’d had a confrontation at the convenience store after the Blazer cut him off in traffic. (Believe it or not, this was a 65 year old man trying to pick a fight with a 27 year old man!)

• An Officer stopped a South Carolina woman northbound on I-95 when he saw her veer from the right lane into the middle lane of traffic four times in less than a mile. He activated his lights to make a traffic stop, and noticed the woman was trying to read a map while she was driving. The woman finally pulled over and the Officer asked for her license and proof of registration. “I think my license is in the trunk,” she said. He then walked her back to her trunk, which she opened but didn’t bother looking for her license. He asked again for the items, and she said she didn’t know where to look. The Officer then got her name and date of birth and confirmed through dispatch that she had a valid license. But the tag on the car came back to her boyfriend’s pickup. The Officer then asked for permission to search her car. The woman refused. After a little while, she finally admitted that she had a little marijuana in the car. The Officer located that, and arrested the woman for possession, driving without a license, and use of a license plate to misrepresent registration. The car was towed, and searched prior to that. The Officer then located two bags of methamphetamines in the car. The car will be seized. (We can advertise that car for the Port Wentworth PD for just $15 until it sells!)

• An Officer stopped a white Chevy Tahoe for driving in the emergency lane on Hwy 21 near O’Leary Road. The Officer asked the man’s name and date of birth when he couldn’t produce a license. The man gave him the information, and the Officer noted that the man looked considerably older than 24 years of age, according to the date of birth he’d given. He then checked the license plate, which came back to another man, and dispatch advised that the owner of the truck had a suspended license. He then had the man sign his citation, and asked who’s truck he was driving. “Mine and my wife’s,” he replied. The Officer then had him put his hands behind his back and asked him again for his real name. The man gave his real name, and was taken to jail. (Lying to an Officer during a traffic stop... that’s like watching a Pamela Anderson video on a flat screen TV, ...I mean, why bother?)

• Police took a report from a local trucking company of a missing tractor and trailer. The trailer was loaded with $25,000 worth of aluminum. The tractor and trailer were recovered in Midway along I-95, with the aluminum missing.

• A Florida trucker is wanted for pumping over 100 gallons of diesel fuel into his truck, a $300 bill, and driving off without paying for it. The trucker had to go into the store and show his driver’s license to get the pump turned on. The clerk had typed his license number into the system before activating the pump.

• The assistant manager of a rental car franchise called Police when he spotted one of his company’s trucks in the parking lot of a local convenience store. The truck had been rented in Alabama with the stipulation that the truck not leave the state. The Officer stopped the South Carolina man driving the truck, and confirmed that it was stolen in Alabama. The driver was released to his family, and the truck returned to the Garden City location of the business.

• Around 10pm, an Officer spotted a southbound black F150 speeding 80mph in a 45mph zone of Hwy 21 approaching Hwy 307. The light was red, but the driver began flashing his lights and sped through the intersection. The Officer turned to make a traffic stop, and saw the driver strike the curb of the roadway. The driver then pulled into a side street, and fled on foot. Other Officers arrived and the chase was on. The man was finally stopped by another citizen and two Officers in the Mercer Middle School parking lot. The Officers stood the man up and began pat searching him for weapons, and the man began screaming “You’re hurting me! You’re hurting me!” He was arrested for DUI, reckless driving, fleeing to elude, obstruction, and driving without a driver’s license.

• An employee of Wendy’s at Hwy 21 and I-95 called Police after she found a purse belonging to an Ohio woman. The Officer found a phone number to call for the woman, and left a message that her pocketbook, and her $420 in cash, was at the Police Station. (Employee of the Year!)

Effingham County Sheriff’s Office

• Around 6:40am, an Ebenezer Road woman said a man ran the stop sign at Long Acre Road and Ebenezer Road, crashing across her front yard and into the wood line where his Buick struck a pine tree. She said the driver got out of the car and began walking toward Hwy 21 on Ebenezer Road. Deputies arrived and could not locate the man. A check of the license plate on the car returned to a Rincon man who was contacted by phone. He said he’d sold the car recently to a Springfield man, whom the Deputy recognized and suspected was probably still in the woods watching them. That Deputy left the scene, and another remained for about 30 minutes when the man came walking out of the woods. As the Deputy called out to him, the man fled on foot again into the woods. He was captured a short while later on another street. He had injuries consistent with the automobile crash, but denied being the driver. The Deputies noted the pile of personal belongings in the passenger seat, making it impossible that the man had been a passenger as he now claimed. He was arrested for DUI, habitual violator, obstruction, and failure to report an accident.

• A neighbor called Deputies when he noticed a suspicious man walking back and forth from the woods up to his neighbor’s home. Deputies pulled up at the man’s house and he told them what he’d seen. As one Deputy walked towards the front door, the neighbor called out to him and pointed to the man approaching again from the wood line. The Deputy turned the corner of the home, and the man fled into the woods. Deputies then found two piles of personal belongings from the home outside the residence. The items were collected as evidence.

• Around 6:30am, a Deputy clocked a black Ford Ranger pickup at 75mph in a 55mph zone of southbound Hwy 17 and made a stop. The driver had a limited permit to drive, and was taken to jail.

• Around 2am, a Deputy stopped a red Honda Civic when he saw the driver run the stop sign at Kolic Helmey Road and Hwy 30. He noticed the odor of alcohol on the driver’s breath and had him step to the rear of the car for a field sobriety test. The man didn’t have his license with him, so he gave the Deputy his name and date of birth. Dispatch advised that the man did have a valid license. He was arrested and taken to jail for DUI, underage drinking, and his traffic citations. A few hours after being dropped off at the jail, the Deputy got a call from jailers who said the man had given a false name. Apparently his fingerprints gave them his true identity. He was also wanted for charges of battery, and was then also charged with driving while suspended and forgery for signing another person’s name on the citations. (How would you like a friend of yours to get your car insurance premium doubled because he used your name when he got stopped DUI???)

• Deputies have a suspect in mind for the theft of $239 from a safe at a Rincon area business. The night manager told them he’d deposited $500.52 into the safe the night before. When the manager arrived at 10:15am the next morning, there was only $261.52 still in the safe.

• A Deputy clocked an Olds Alero at 87mph in a 70mph zone of eastbound I-16 and made a traffic stop. The North Carolina man’s license came back as suspended, and he was taken to jail.

• Among the items reported stolen this week..., two bathtubs, valued at $500, from a residence under construction in Guyton. (Cleanliness is next to Godliness...)

• A landlord contacted Deputies after she evicted a Rincon couple from her trailer for not paying their rent. She’s missing $300 worth of bedroom furniture, $300 worth of living room furniture, and $100 worth of kitchen utensils. Deputies also made note of the hole in the bathroom wall, the hole in the floor where concrete blocks had been dropped, and the two window unit air conditioners that had been shoved out of the windows and were found laying on the ground.

• A Deputy recognized the red Lincoln Towncar that passed him on Midland Road as one he’d seen on his previous shift without a license plate. He turned around and pulled closer to the Lincoln, but the driver pulled into a driveway and behind the residence. The Deputy rode on down the street and pulled to the side to see if the driver would pull back out. After three or four minutes, he did. But when the driver spotted the patrol car, he quickly backed up behind the home again. The Deputy pulled into the driveway and approached the driver. The man said he didn’t own the car and that he was just dropping it off for a friend. A check of the license revealed that the Savannah man did own the car, which had no insurance and a suspended registration. The man was then arrested for driving while suspended and no insurance. (Roses are red, bats are covered with pine tar. The seats in your jail cell, won’t be as nice as the ones in your Towncar!)

• Around 11am, Deputies responded to a location on south Hwy 21 in Rincon where a man had stopped his Isuzu pickup on the curb in front of a business. The man appeared very confused and said he wasn’t under the influence of any prescription drugs. The Deputies then obtained permission to search the man’s truck, and found a baggie on the floorboard that contained cocaine. A large gym bag behind the passenger seat was checked, and they found a set of digital scales, numerous baggies, and a large bag of marijuana. Inside the man’s pocket, they found an empty cigarette pack containing several white pills. The man was taken to jail for DUI Drugs, possession with intent to distribute, and possession of cocaine and controlled substances.