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Police Reports

Garden City

• An Officer stopped at a local convenience store to “conduct a restroom break.” He was approached inside by an employee who asked him to check on a car that had been parked in the front lot since 5am. The Officer ran the license plate through dispatch and found the car had been reported stolen in Glynn County. (I’m gonna guess the Officer didn’t want to put in his report that “I stopped to take a leak....”)

• The same Officer also found a stolen Ford Escort at a Garden City fast food business the day before.

• An Officer was doing a business check when he spotted a car riding down the side street. The driver of the car was a man that the Officer knows has a suspended license. He pulled to the side of the road and got out of the car, and the Officer called for him to walk over to where he was. The man smiled at the Officer, then fled on foot. A short time later, the man’s mother and sister arrived at the car and wanted to know what was going on. The Officer explained that the woman’s son had been driving while suspended and fled on foot. He added that he could’t release the car to them until the man turned himself in. The women left in a huff, but not before advising that they would be speaking to the Chief of Police first thing the next morning. (Yeah, good luck with that!)

Port Wentworth

• An Officer responded to a construction site off of Hwy 21 at I-95 for a report of an injured person. The victim had suffered a severe cut caused by a 14” diamond saw blade. The Officer called for Port Wentworth and Pooler Fire Departments to set up a secure area where a helicopter arrived to fly the victim to Memorial Hospital. No word on his condition at this time.

• An Officer was on her way to work when dispatch advised to be on the lookout for a possible drunk driver in a blue Camaro that had been all over the road on Hwy 21, turned onto Crossgate Road and then onto Turnberry Street. The Officer found the Camaro now parked in a driveway. She pulled a block away to see if the driver got back into the car, and another car pulled alongside her. This was the woman who’d originally called to report the driver. She said she was stopped beside the car at a red light, and noticed the woman drinking from a Smirnoff bottle. When the light turned green, the woman quickly accelerated, veering into her lane of traffic and nearly sideswiping her car. As the woman approached Crossgate Road, she nearly struck a man on a bicycle. She then proceeded down the middle of Crossgate Road, ran the red light at Hwy 25 and then turned onto Turnberry. About that time, the Camaro began backing out of the driveway, and the Officer made a traffic stop. The original driver was now sitting in the back seat. The current driver was arrested for driving while suspended. The original driver was arrested for underage drinking and open container violation. While arguing with the Officer, she admitted she’d driven from Garden City, taking Hwy 21 and Crossgate Road. She was then also charged with DUI and taken to jail.

• An Officer was on Hwy 21 and noticed a southbound car with no tail lights. He turned around to make a traffic stop, but the driver, seeing the Officer turn around, also made a U-turn and headed back northbound. The Officer got behind him with his lights and siren activated, but the driver refused to stop. A Garden City Officer notified the Officer that the car was stolen. The driver finally pulled to the side of the road, and he was immediately placed under arrest for driving while suspended and theft by bringing stolen property into the state.

• Around 1am, an Officer clocked a Springfield man in a gray pickup at 70mph in a 55mph zone and made a traffic stop. He finally asked if the man would submit to some field sobriety tests, and the man replied, “No, ...you got me. I drank too much.” He was taken to jail for DUI.

• An Officer stopped a Hilton Head man in a Jeep Cherokee after seeing him run the red light at Hwy 21 adn Crossgate Road. His K-9 walked around the Jeep and alerted on the tailgate and rear window area. The man was soon arrested for possession of marijuana.

Effingham County Sheriff’s Office

• A Guyton man told Deputies that as he was backing out of his driveway, he noticed his Rototiller was missing from his backyard. The tiller is valued at $450.

• An Eden man told Deputies his son was riding a four wheeler down a trail behind his property when a man stepped out of the wood line and pointed a rifle at him. His son turned around and returned home and told his father about his. His father said he then walked down the trail, and the man again stepped out of the woodline with his rifle. The man told him if he “came down there, he would shoot him.” Deputies are investigating. (I’m gonna bet this guy’s growin’ a little something down this trail and doesn’t want anyone snooping around!)

• A Guyton city employee found that a man had rerouted his water line and was receiving city water at no charge. The employee removed the water meter and put a lock on it, and left a note for the homeowner to call City Hall. When he returned, the lock had been cut off and the water line reconnected. The employee removed the meter and replaced the lock, and left a note that if the homeowner didn’t contact City Hall about his water service, the Sheriff’s Department would be notified. When he followed up, the man had cut the lock off again and reconnected his service. (Must not be any of that treated Savannah River water!)

• The night before St. Patrick’s Day, a Bloomingdale Officer found a woman parked in the middle of Hwy 80 near Ziegler Road. He contacted Effingham Deputies and tried to speak with the woman driver. She complained that she couldn’t get the car to go in reverse. The Officer found that the car was turned off. She said she was trying to get to her house nearby. Deputies arrived and the woman was arrested for DUI.

• A Deputy was on Midland Road around 4am the morning after St. Patrick’s Day and observed as a black pickup ran the stop sign at Blue Jay Road. As he pulled up to make a traffic stop, the truck backed into the intersection and turned south on Blue Jay. The Deputy stopped the driver, and the Springfield man was arrested for DUI-under 21 years of age.

• A Springfield woman told Deputies she arrived home around 11pm and went inside and took a shower. When she got out, she discovered her ‘97 Chevy Suburban was missing.

• Deputies responded to an abandoned residence where a woman complained that her daughter was inside with a man. As they pulled up, one man exited the residence and was stopped by one of the Deputies. Another man then walked out and began walking away very quickly. The other Deputy stopped that man, but he became very agitated, insisting that the Deputy had no right to stop him. The Deputy noticed the odor of alcohol on the young man’s breath and decided he needed to pat the man down for weapons. The man refused to let the Deputy pat him down. He pulled away and turned to run, and the Deputy put him on the ground. He then placed the man under arrest for underage drinking and obstruction.

• A man told Deputies that there were seven dogs in a pen located in a field behind his residence. He told them who the hunting dogs belonged to, adding that he’d gone out and fed the dogs after he found them malnourished. One dog was in such bad shape that it couldn’t stand up on it’s own. The Deputies spoke to the dogs’ owner, who said he’d been on vacation, adding that he’d fed them about two weeks ago. All seven dogs were taken to Animal Control, and the man was taken to jail on charges of cruelty to animals. (I’m fine with that, as long as they remember to give this guy something to eat every couple of weeks!)

• Deputies responded to a domestic dispute that began when a man insisted his wife fix him something for supper. While the Deputy was trying to get both sides of the story, he told the man to be quiet and stand by the refrigerator while he spoke with the man’s wife. The man then took an offensive stance like he was going to hit or push the Deputy. The man ended up going to jail for disorderly conduct and obstruction.

• A Garden City Officer was on his way home, near Midland Road and Hwy 17, when he spotted two vehicles pulled to the side of the road and two men fighting. As Deputies arrived, one man explained that he was taking his babysitter and her sister home when he noticed he was being followed by a white Ford pickup. The pickup then passed him and slammed on brakes, causing the man to pull to the side of the road. The other driver then ran up to him and punched him in the nose. The other man admitted that was all true, adding that he thought his girlfriend was cheating on him. He was then taken to jail on charges of simple battery and aggressive driving. (I could write a country song out of this one!)

• A Deputy responded to an Eden residence and saw a man waving for him from the front porch. He walked up and the man showed him a man who was “scared for his life” that had jumped out of a car on the road. The man explained that the woman who was driving had nearly struck three or four cars head on, and he asked her to slow down for just a moment. When she did, he took advantage of the opportunity and jumped from the moving vehicle. The Deputy then walked over to the woman in the car, and she said she’d been yelling for the man for about thirty minutes. The Deputy shined his flashlight into her car and noticed several wine coolers in the floorboard. She failed a field sobriety test and was arrested for DUI and open container. The man refused treatment by EMS for the knot on his head and the cuts on his arm. (I get scared when my wife’s driving, but not enough to make me jump out the car!)

• A Guyton man was attempting to put his coins into the car wash machine and dropped some of them on the ground. He thought he’d put his car in park, but it was actually in reverse. As the car rolled backward, his door began brushing against the brick base of the money machine. He went to grab and close the door, but got his hand wedged between the door and the machine, leaving him with several lacerations and probably a broken thumb. An employee arrived for work and heard the man calling for help and was able to free the man’s hand. He was taken to St. Joseph’s Hospital for treatment.

• A bank employee who reads Police Reports in a local, and pretty darn good, newspaper, became concerned over two men who were cashing $900 in quarters at the bank. Officers arrived and took information from the men, who were released from the scene with their money. (That’s good community policing! I hope everyone will keep their eyes open for some of the crooks we write about!)

• A man told Officers he went to his storage shed to charge the battery on his lawn tractor, and found it had been stolen.

• A man walked out to his truck to go to work and found someone had broken into it and stolen a $3500 computer that belongs to the company he works for. He’s unsure if the doors were locked or not.

• Officers responded to I-16 where a Douglas man had run off the road. He was arrested for DUI and refused the state administered test.

• An anonymous caller complained about an intoxicated man walking through their backyard. Officers arrived and the man admitted that he’d walked through several backyards. He said he thought they were all common ground areas, open to anyone to walk through. The Officer briefly explained the concept of private property, and the man promised to call the next time he found someone walking through his back yard!

• A man happened to be outside between 7:30am and 8am when a Laidlaw school bus attempted to make a turn onto Mell Street. The man said the driver struck a fence, a street sign, and a survey marker, and the driver never stopped. (Why, for goodness sakes, do we still have Laidlaw running our school buses???)

• Police responded to a residential neighborhood where a man told them he’d just picked his kids up from the residential childcare business. He said a woman who lives nearby came out in just a short halter top, naked from the waist down, and was taking pictures of his car parked in the street. The Officers flipped coin to see who got to go and speak with the woman. The winner said the woman and her husband denied that she was naked. The woman said she taking photos of the illegally parked cars to present to City Council. (You can bet I’ll be at the next Pooler City Council meeting!)

• A Pooler man told Officers he’d just discovered that someone had used his credit card number to charge $1,031 on his account payable to Western Union. The man says he still has his card with him and that he’s never done any business with Western Union. He’s cancelled his card to prevent further loss.

• The manager of a fast food business told Officers she was suspicious of a red Isuzu pickup that had been parked behind the business for nearly three hours. The truck pulled away just before the Officers arrived, but she pointed it out as it passed on the street behind the business. The Officers then made a traffic stop, and the driver said he’d been parked there waiting on his girlfriend to get off work. The Officers asked for his girlfriend’s name, and he could only give a first name. One said he’d go confirm the man’s story, and then he admitted he didn’t have a girlfriend and couldn’t explain why he was parked behind the restaurant for so long. One Officer looked into the cab of his pickup while the driver’s side window was partially rolled down, and spotted a small baggie with crack cocaine in the floorboard. The man was arrested on charges of possession of controlled substances at that point.

Bryan County Sheriff’s Office

• A woman told Deputies she was outside doing some yard work when she decided to take a break and play with her kids. That’s when she noticed her neighbor had climbed into his children’s tree house and was watching her. She said that made her pretty uncomfortable, and she wanted a report on file. (I did a little yard work last week and noticed all of my neighbors had come outside and were looking at me. I think they were all thinking “My God, he’s actually doing something with his yard!”)

• While on patrol at 2am, a Deputy spotted a Nissan pickup on Hwy 17 without it’s headlights and tail lights on. The Deputy made a traffic stop, and the Richmond Hill man was arrested for DUI.

• A woman called Deputies who showed up to find her holding her Chihuahua in her arms wrapped in a towel. The dog had been attacked, for a second time, by a neighbor’s bulldog. The bulldog’s owner agreed to pay the vet’s bill for the woman, and she was cited for dog at large charges.

• A Deputy clocked a Ford Crown Victoria at 70mph in a 55mph zone of Hwy 17. The driver of the Ford pulled into a fast food business, apparently looking for a place to pull over for the Officer. But when he reached the back of the parking lot, he layed drag accelerating back through the lot to the highway. The Deputy stayed right behind him with his lights flashing and siren activated. The driver of the Ford then got into heavy traffic on Hwy 17 near I-95, at one point straddling the centerline and driving through the stopped vehicles. At a traffic light intersection, he struck another car, lost control of the car and ended up in the ditch. The driver got out and attempted to flee on foot, but only fell in the ditch where he was apprehended. “I made a mistake,” the man told the Deputy. He admitted his license was suspended, and dispatch advised that there were two warrants for his arrest from other counties. He was taken to St. Joseph’s for a fractured vertebra. He was cited for DUI Refusal, reckless driving, driving while suspended, open container, and fleeing to elude, and was transferred to Memorial Hospital. He’ll be picked up and taken to jail once he receives his medical clearance.

• Officers responded to a domestic dispute call around 2am. A woman told them she walked by while her boyfriend was on the phone and heard him say “Hey baby” to whoever he was talking to. She then questioned him about who he was on the phone with, and the man replied “My friend Adam.” She continued questioning him and finally learned it was an ex-girlfriend. The couple decided to sleep in different rooms for the night. (Sounds like it coulda been worse. I mean, what if he really had been talking to Adam?)

• A man told as Officer that he was sitting in his living room watching TV around 9:30pm with his front door open when a man walked inside his home. He asked the man what he was doing, and the man said he was just going to use the bathroom. The man and his son got the man outside the house, but didn’t notify Police until the next day.

• Around 2:20am, an Officer was eastbound on Hwy 80 when a car approached from behind him with it’s bright lights on. The Officer waited until the driver passed him, then made a traffic stop. The Savannah man couldn’t produce a driver’s license, so the Officer ran his name through dispatch and found he was driving while suspended. The man also had a warrant for his arrest from the Chatham County Sheriff’s Department. (And not bright enough to dim his bright lights while behind a Police Officer! Geez!)

• Around 3:30am, an Officer was behind another car southbound on Bloomingdale Road that was weaving across the lane lines. He made a traffic stop, and a South Carolina man told him he was lost and trying to get back to Abercorn Street. He found his way to the Chatham County Detention Center on charges of DUI instead.

• A man reported that his $16,000 John Deere tractor and his $1000 flat bed trailer had been removed from his Ford pickup and stolen. Witnesses last saw it being towed behind a white pickup towards I-16.

• A man drove his tractor trailer to the Police Department to pay a traffic fine, and was arrested for driving while suspended.

• An Officer noticed a car weaving ahead of him on I-16 westbound, and made a traffic stop. He noticed the odor of alcohol coming from the car when he asked for the Rincon woman’s license. He also noticed that the woman couldn’t do but one thing at a time, stopping her search for her driver’s license while answering questions he’d ask. She was ultimately arrested for DUI.

• An Officer made a traffic stop on a Statesboro man on St. Patrick’s Day night after seeing the man weaving while westbound on I-16. The man was then arrested for driving while suspended and for DUI. His female passenger was arrested for possession of marijuana.

• An Officer was running stationary radar near the school zone on Pine Street when he clocked a Bloomingdale man at 35mph in the 25mph zone. The man was then arrested for driving while suspended.

• A man went into the Police Department to file a complaint. He explained that he’d turned his van in to a Garden City Title Pawn business back in July of 2004. He left his license platee on the back. He said that since that time, he’d received several notices from the City of Savannah Parking Services Division about his tag being used on different vehicles, and accruing over $114 in fines.