Antique Sewing Machine with beautiful wood cabinet, circa early 30's, excellent condition, asking $200. Call 826-7111.

4 Piece Bedroom Suite, cherry oak, master king Sleigh bed, like new condition, $1500. Call 754-9570.

Cargomate enclosed trailer, 5x8 with roof vent, $1400. Call 912-330-8482.

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Girl’s bedroom set, cream and gold. Twin bed with head- and footboard. Large dresser with mirror, 6-drawer chest, and small chest with hutch. $500. Call 728-5750.

Twin beds with very large sliding drawers, including mattresses. Can be stacked as bunk beds or used seperately. $85 each. Another twin bed set with lingerie dresser and mattress, $85. Call 826-3180.

Magic Chef dorm-size refrigerator/freezer. Like new. $35 cash. Call 660-6275.

THE SPIRIT WORKS!

Police Reports

Bryan County Sheriff’s Office

• Deputies met with a contractor who owns a local heating and air business. The man said he had replaced a system that had been struck by lightning for a Richmond Hill couple. He then contacted the couple’s insurance company to get paid his $15,800, and was told the check had already been paid to the couple. He said he’s tried to make contact with them several times but they haven’t returned his calls, so he’s filed theft of services charges against them. (I think I’d go back and make sure their heater wasn’t working yet, too!)

• Around midnight, a Deputy responded to a report of a possible drunk driver on Hwy 280 between Blichton and Lanier. He spotted the gray Isuzu pickup westbound, crossing over the fog line several times, and made a traffic stop. The driver, an Ellabell man, admitted he’d had one alcoholic beverage that evening. He was arrested for DUI and blew a .131 at the Sheriff’s Office.

• A Deputy was northbound on Hwy 17 around midnight when a gold Chevy Blazer in front of him quickly changed from the left hand lane to the right hand lane, causing two other vehicles to slam on brakes to avoid hitting him. The Deputy signalled for the driver to pull over, and he did. The driver handed over his driver’s license, but couldn’t locate an insurance card. A passenger in the back seat asked if he could leave, explaining that he’d just caught a ride with them and lived across the highway. The Deputy explained he’d have to wait, and then asked the front seat passenger for his ID, which the man said he didn’t have. The Deputy went back to his patrol car to find out about the driver’s insurance, and the front seat passenger suddenly took off running towards a cemetery. The Deputy chased and tackled the man. Other Deputies arrived, and the man was searched. Deputies located a small baggie of cocaine and eight light brown rocks suspected of being crack cocaine. A search of the Blazer led to charges of possession of cocaine and drug related objects when the Deputies found a digital scale inside the vehicle. Both men were transported to jail on possession charges, and the rear seat passenger was allowed to walk home.

Bulloch County Sheriff’s Department

• A Deputy responded to a residence in Register where a couple told him that the woman’s sister had shown up at their home, drunk and yelling and cussing. As she was still on the scene, and the Deputy could tell she was drunk and barely able to stand up, she was taken into custody on charges of public drunkenness and disorderly conduct. At jail, she was served with a warrant from the Bryan County Sheriff’s Department as well.

• A Deputy clocked a woman at 76mph in a 55mph zone of Hwy 46 and made a traffic stop. The woman handed over her driver’s license, but dispatch advised it had been suspended several times for failures to appear. She was taken to jail. (And denied bond, I hope!)

• A Deputy stopped a 24 year old North Carolina man for speeding 74mph in a 55mph zone of Hwy 25. The man explained that he didn’t have a driver’s license, and was only driving because his friend was too tired and didn’t feel like driving. He was taken to jail for driving while unlicensed.

• A Deputy was stopped at the four way crossing at Langston Chapel Road and Old Register Road when a woman in a white Volkswagen failed to stop for the stop sign. He made a traffic stop, and the woman was soon on her way to jail for driving while suspended.

• Deputies met with a Brooklet man at his home, and he explained that he’d had several friends over the night before. Around midnight, he gave one of them a ride home. He returned home, and around 2am, realized that one of his other friends had taken his ‘98 Jeep Grand Cherokee without his permission. He said he’d left his keys inside the Jeep.

• A woman explained that she gave her mother-in-law a ride to another man’s property so she could borrow $2 from a friend who lived in a trailer on the property. As they pulled up, the mother-in-law went inside the trailer and the woman stayed outside. The property owner then walked up, carrying a rifle, and wanted to know what they were doing on his property. She told him to put the gun down and fight like a man, and the man fired the rifle one time in the air. Mother-in-law then came outside, got into the woman’s car, and they left the scene and contacted the Deputy. He went and spoke to the man, who admitted firing the rifle in the air once because he wanted them off his property. All were advised to avoid each other and each other’s property in the future. (“Ms. Hatfield, I assume you know Mr. McCoy...”)

• Deputies responded to a domestic dispute on Lawrence Church Road. The woman explained that she and her husband had gotten into an argument around dinner time, prompting her husband to walk outside with a pot of food and dump it in the garden. Things just got worse from there, and the couple agreed to separate for the rest of the night.

• A couple called for Deputies to come out to their home in a Statesboro subdivision. There, the woman explained that the night before, around 4:30pm or 5pm, a young woman had come to their front door and asked for monetary help. The woman said she gave her $40 cash and the woman left. But she came back the next morning around 6:30am, asking for more money. The man told her she just needed to leave, and wrote down the tag number on her Mazda pickup. Deputies advised the couple to call for Deputies to come out should the woman return, so that they could issue the woman a formal criminal trespass notification. (Mail me $40 cash and be sure to include your home address, and I promise I’ll never come bother you at home!)

Pooler

• An Officer stopped a Pooler man on Hwy 80 at Rogers Street for not wearing his seat belt. The man was soon arrested for driving while suspended. (It’s Click It or Ticket time! Make sure you buckle up!)

• An Officer clocked an ‘88 Ford F150 at 51mph in a 35mph zone of Old Louisville Road and made a traffic stop. The man reached for his wallet to get his license, and then said he must have dropped his wallet while working on a truck that day. He said his license was valid and was from Pennsylvania.

The Officer had dispatch check on the man’s license, and found it was suspended in both Pennsylvania and Georgia, four times in Georgia for failure to appear.

• A homebuilder reported that a microwave oven and a dishwasher had been stolen from a home under construction off of Jimmy DeLoach Parkway. The home had been left unlocked, and the appliances were still in the box on the kitchen floor.

• An Officer was walking through the parking lot when a store manager flagged him down. He pointed out a woman walking to her car with an $850 flat panel 32” LCD television that she was attempting to shoplift. The Officer stopped the Eden woman, and she was arrested. She’d attempted to use a merchandise return sticker from three days earlier, placing it on the TV and trying to walk past the checker at the entrance/exit. She was also charged with obstruction and giving a false identity to a law enforcement Officer when the Officer was notified of her true identity by jail personnel.

• An Officer was on patrol on South Pooler Parkway and checked the license plate on a Ford Mustang that came back as a suspended registration. The Officer made a traffic stop, and found the Ellabell man’s license was also suspended. He was taken to jail.

• An Officer responded to an alarm activation at a warehouse business, along with an employee from the company. They found everything to be secure on the outside, and then began checking the interior of the warehouse. A check of the motion sensor revealed that a spider had built it’s web across the front of the sensor, and had triggered the alarm. The Officer removed the web, and the employee said they’d take care of the spider the next day.

• A flim flam artist pulled a scam on a local bank teller, resulting in a $180 theft. The man is described as a black man, about 5’ 10” tall and weighing around 300 pounds with lots of gold teeth, just in case he asks you for change for a $100 bill.

• An Officer noticed the tag was expired on a vehicle at the traffic light at eastbound Hwy 80 and Rogers Street. He made a traffic stop, and found the driver’s license was also suspended, and that he was wanted by Chatham County Sheriff’s Office for probation violation. He was taken to jail.

• An Officer responded to a large retail business for a report of a female who’d been disorderly in the store with several of the customers and employees. As he pulled in, an employee was in the parking lot pointing out the lady as she was attempting to leave. The Officer signalled for her to stop, but the woman yelled out her window “Get away from my car!” and “You can’t stop me from leaving!” The Officer stopped her from leaving and had her get out of her car. She then began screaming in the Officer’s face that she was a retired school teacher, she knew her rights, that she had connections with the NAACP and that the only reason he was stopping her was because she was black. The Officer explained to her that she wasn’t leaving until he found out what events led to him being dispatched to the store. The woman refused to calm down, screaming racial slurs at the Officer and referring to him as a “G.D. White Devil Slave Master” and a “freakin’ whitey!” She refused to calm down a second time, so the Officer placed her under arrest for disorderly conduct. As you can imagine, that didn’t sit well with the woman. She now began screaming “This is how they treat a retired school teacher if you’re black!”, “I want everyone to see how I’m being treated!” and, my favorite, “Rodney King! Rodney King!” The Officer had trouble getting her into the back of his patrol car while she began ranting about having several Master’s Degrees and how he probably never finished high school. The Officer then went and spoke with at least ten people who’d been offended by the woman inside the store. The first was a Bloomingdale woman who’d nearly been struck by the woman as she was entering the store when the woman pulled into the parking lot. She confronted the woman about slowing down as she drove through the crosswalk, and the woman responded by saying “Just get the #@*% outta the way!” Another woman, a 66 year old Garden City woman, said she’d encountered the woman in an aisle where she’d been looking at some merchandise. The woman came up behind her, shoved her, and said “Get the #@*% outta my way!” A third woman was in the checkout line and asked the woman to stop cussing in front of her children. The woman responded by pulling a bottle out of her shopping cart and saying “White B!#@*%, do you want some of this? Somebody’s gonna die!” At that point, the employees began to move the woman out of the store. She was also charged with obstruction and simple battery, given a $1760 bond and taken to jail. Her car was towed from the parking lot.

• And as a follow-up, the woman went to get her car from the wrecker service, also located in Pooler. As an Officer arrived on the scene, the woman was yelling at the manager of the yard. The Officer told her she needed to calm down. The woman screamed at him “I don’t need to calm down!” and “Get the #*@! outta my way!” She then attempted to drive away, but was stopped by the Officer who’d arrested her the day before. She got out of her car and yelled that she was “going to knock that white MF out!”, talking about the Officer. She was taken to jail again for disorderly conduct. (Sounds like somebody needs to get back on their medication!)

Port Wentworth

• Just after midnight, an Officer stopped a Lincoln for having a defective tag light. The driver was very nervous, and the Officer noticed the open 12 pack of Bud Light on the rear floorboard. The man gave consent to have his car searched, and was arrested for possession of marijuana when the Officer found a half burned marijuana cigarette on the passenger floorboard.

• An Officer made a traffic stop on a Claxton man in a black Firebird just after 3:30am on Hwy 21 when he found the man driving down the center of both lanes northbound on Hwy 21. The man had slowed to 30mph and suddenly pulled into a driveway. He was arrested for DUI, and blew a .228 about two hours after being stopped.

Effingham County Sheriff’s Office

• Two Deputies served a warrant at a Rincon address and met the man they were looking for at the front door. They followed the man into his bedroom so he could get his shoes. They noticed that the man picked up a Sprite can on top of his dresser and placed it inside a drawer while they were waiting on him. The Deputy asked for the can, and the man handed it over. It had had been converted into a pipe, and had burnt marijuana residue on it. The Deputies then found a bag of marijuana inside the dresser drawer. The man was taken to jail, and was also charged with possession of marijuana.

• A Deputy stopped a Kia Rio on I-16 for speeding 87mph in the 70mph zone. The Glennville man was arrested for DUI.

• A Deputy stopped a man on Hwy 21 for speeding 75mph in the 55mph zone. The Springfield man was then taken to jail for driving while suspended.

• A man walked into the Sheriff’s Office and filed a report of financial identity fraud. He said his wife had checked their bank account balance online and found they were $180 overdrawn. She contacted their bank and learned that someone had set up an automatic withdrawal for a $500 monthly payment to a finance company. The bank couldn’t get much information from the finance company, but the victim had learned that several other people had been stung by the offender as well. The one thing they all had in common was that they’d all purchased raffle tickets for a baseball weekend from a former student at Georgia Southern, and had all paid with checks.

• A Guyton man called and reported that two dogs had come into his yard and killed a rooster and seven hens, valued around $170.

• A Deputy stopped a Honda after seeing the driver run a stop sign on Rincon Stillwell Road. The Atlanta man was then taken into custody for driving while suspended.

• A Deputy made a traffic stop after clocking a red Dodge Durango at 73mph in a 35mph zone of Midland Road in heavy fog. The driver was cited for speeding, too fast for conditions, and driving without a license. He admitted to the Deputy that he was a Mexican in America illegally. The Deputy was able to get more information on the man from the Bulloch County Sheriff’s Department.

• A Deputy was working off duty in the rear of a subdivision when he heard squealing tires as a Savannah man pulled into the neighborhood. He made a traffic stop and immediately noticed the odor of alcohol on the man’s breath. He called an on-duty Deputy, who placed the man under arrest for DUI and underage drinking.

• A Rincon woman reported her boxer Bulldog had been stolen from her backyard.

• A Faulkville man got into an argument with his girlfriend, and she kicked him out of her house. So the man went to a nearby hair salon and got a haircut. After that, he walked next door to a convenience store, then sat on the sidewalk at the hair salon and consumed four 40ounce beers. The Deputy asked to see his license, and the man replied “Why? I ain’t been drivin’!” He was arrested for public intoxication.

• A Deputy clocked a motorcycle at 92mph in a 55mph zone of Hwy 21 north of Shawnee and made a traffic stop. The biker couldn’t produce a driver’s license but did manage to find an insurance card which he claimed belonged to the owner of the bike. The Deputy was then notified by another Officer that the man he’d stopped had a history of drug related offenses. Another Deputy arrived on the scene, and the bike was searched for drugs. No drugs were found, but they did find $5,607 wrapped in 4 bundles. The money and the motorcycle were seized and the driver was charged with speeding and improper class license.

• A Deputy made a traffic stop on a Rincon man after seeing him run the stop sign at East 4th Street and Hwy 21. The man had an outstanding warrant from the Sheriff’s Department, and he was placed under arrest. (Why would you run a stop sign while you’re wanted by the Police?!)

• Around 7am, Deputies arrived at a Clyo residence to serve a warrant on a man. His brother answered their knock at the door, and said his brother wasn’t there. The Deputies the went inside and looked around. While in the back bedroom, one of the Deputies saw something move behind a tall bookcase that was pulled away from the wall. The Deputy ordered the man to come out, and he did. The man attempted to run to a door leading outside, but the Deputy detained him until the other Deputies got there to place the man in handcuffs. He was taken to jail.

• A Deputy made a traffic stop on a Dodge pickup on Goshen Road at Autumn Drive for not having the headlights on at midnight. After the driver gave several dates of birth, the Deputy soon determined he was actually an unlicensed juvenile. His mother was contacted, and she wanted to pursue charges of theft by taking of the truck. The Deputy contacted Juvenile Justice, and they decided the boy would best be served with a visit to the Youth Detention Center in Claxton.

• An employee of the Chatham County Sheriff’s Office notified Police after he found a young boy, 2 to 3 years old, standing in the middle of the double yellow lines on Hwy 80 near Ash Street. Before Officers arrived, a woman pulled up in a white Chevy Suburban and the child went to her and she left. (How can you let a 2-3 year old child wander out into the middle of Hwy 80???!!!)

• Shortly after midnight, an Officer was westbound on Hwy 80 when he noticed the Chevy Impala in front of him was crossing over the centerline. He made a traffic stop and advised the driver of why he’d stopped him. The man explained that he’d been foolin’ ‘round with his girlfriend. The Officer noticed a strange odor coming from the car and called for backup. The driver was asked permission for his vehicle to be searched, and finally admitted that he had a bag of marijuana in the center console. He was taken to jail.

• An Officer stopped a Florida man who was westbound on I-16, speeding at 85mph in the 70mph zone. The man explained that he was on his way to visit family in Statesboro. The Officer had noted the liquor bottle on the floorboard behind the driver’s seat, and noted the man’s birthdate on his driver’s license meant he was under the age of 21. The man then tested positive for alcohol, and was taken to jail for DUI, Under 21 and open container.

• Around 4am, an Officer clocked a westbound Camaro on I-16 at 95mph in the 70mph zone. He made a traffic stop, and a 68 year old Ellabell man was arrested for DUI.