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Police Reports

Bulloch County Sheriff’s Department

• Deputies responded to a domestic dispute at a local motel. A woman said her husband had returned, highly intoxicated, and started an argument. The husband told Deputies he really didn’t know what was going on, other than he found his wife sitting in the lap of another man earlier in the evening. The man was given a ride to his home in Claxton so the couple could seperate for the evening. (Ask the next man you bump into what he’d figure was going on...)

• Two women were arrested for driving while suspended when they stopped for a license check on Pamela Way. A third woman came through the checkpoint, and her decal number didn’t match her license plate number. A check of her license revealed she was also driving while suspended for serious violations under the age of 21, and she was arrested. When her purse was checked prior to going to jail, Deputies added a charge of possession of marijuana.

• Deputies held another license check at Pulaski Road and Old Riggs Mill Road. A green Bonneville pulled into a driveway just before the checkpoint, and a Deputy went over to speak to the driver. The woman said she didn’t have her license with her. A check with dispatch revealed it was suspended, and she was arrested. The male passenger was asked for his license, and he also didn’t have it. A check with dispatch revealed he was wanted out of Savannah.

• A Deputy stopped a woman in a silver Ford Explorer on Hwy 25 Bypass when he noticed her license plate was about to fall off. He removed the tag and told her to keep it inside her SUV until she got home and could install it correctly on her vehicle. He then called her license and insurance information in to dispatch, and they told him her license was suspended. She was taken to jail.

• A woman attempted to pay for an item with her debit card, and was told her account had been frozen. She went home and contacted her bank. They told her someone in Moscow, Russia had used her card for two withdrawals, once for $186 and once for $112. The bank then froze the account to prevent any further losses until they spoke with her. (I just don’t understand how someone in Russia can figure out your account number and use it to steal $300!)

Port Wentworth

• An Officer arrived at the intersection of Hwy 21 and Hwy 307 for an accident. A Garden City Officer already had a driver in his patrol car after the man admitted his license was suspended. The Officer looked at the man’s 2001 Acura and noticed the man had vomited in the driver’s seat and down the side of his car before he ran the red light, causing the accident. Witnesses said the man had been travelling northbound at a high rate of speed, weaving in and out of traffic. They also told the Officer the man had gotten out of his car after the accident, then grabbed something from the car and threw it into a vacant lot across Hwy 307 from Applebee’s. The Officer walked over, noticed the footprints in the dew, and brought back a Crown Royal bag which contained crystal meth and a digital scale. When questioned, the man admitted he’d had a couple of shots of vodka before he started driving, and then he failed a field sobriety test. The man became irate after he was arrested and informed that they were considering seizing his car for the drugs found.

• An Officer attempted to make a traffic stop on a red Honda CRX that had spun it’s wheels while accelerating southbound on Hwy 21 from the light at Hwy 30. The driver pulled into a convenience store just past I-95, made a U-turn in the parking lot, and again fled south on Hwy 21. The Officer stayed behind the car as speeds reached in excess of 95mph. The driver then turned onto Jimmy DeLoach Parkway, and then northbound onto I-95. The driver continued weaving in and out of traffic with the Officer in pursuit, now at speeds up to 120mph. Once in South Carolina, the driver forced the Officer off the road. Two other Officers had joined the pursuit and the driver pulled off southbound on Hwy 17. The driver spun out into the median and continued northbound on Hwy 17. After striking another Officer’s patrol car, the man was finally forced to stop, and he fled on foot, ultimately being found hiding in the water in a nearby canal. When he refused the Officers’ instructions to show his hands, he was tased. He was taken to jail on fifteen different charges, including driving while suspended, reckless driving, and assault on an Officer. (See ya in about 20 years!)

• An Officer was southbound on Hwy 21 and noticed a car on the side of the northbound lane. As he passed by, the headlights turned off, so the Officer turned around to see if they needed any help. As he was calling the tag number in to dispatch, a woman got out of the passenger side of the car, and he asked her to get back in the car and he’d be right with them. The driver then got out and walked back to his car, ignoring his instructions to wait inside his own car. The man suddenly took off running. The Officer called for backup and detained the female passenger. She couldn’t provide the man’s name, finally admitting that she was a prostitute and the driver was her John. Dispatch then advised that the car was stolen. K-9 units were brought in to find the man, and they tracked him for 2-3 miles in the woods but could not locate him. The car was towed to be returned to the owner.

• Around 11pm, Officers responded to the corner of Birkenhead Road and Hwy 25 where a large group of men were gathered and appeared as though they were about to fight. The area was littered with beer bottles, and ten men were arrested for public intoxication.

• A Garden City woman was arrested behind a convenience store for soliciting prostitution from the truck drivers there.

• An Officer made a traffic stop on a Savannah man for speeding 63mph in a 45mph zone on Hwy 21. The man said he didn’t have his license with him, but provided his name, date of birth and social security number. The information did not come back on file. They tried again, and again it came back not on file. The Officer asked the man if he’d ever been incarcerated in Chatham County, and he said that he had. A check through that system finally turned up the man’s identification and his correct social security number. The Officer then placed him under arrest for driving while suspended. “But I didn’t know I was suspended” the man cried. The Officer then showed him that he’d not only been served, but had sent his license back to the state of Georgia. He then admitted he knew he was suspended, but he was trying to get to the hospital for a family member. He ended up at jail.

Effingham County Sheriff’s Office

• A Deputy responded to an accident on McCall Road just after 2am. He found the driver of an Isuzu pickup laying in the road with a severe cut to his head and several cuts on his left leg. The man couldn’t tell the Deputy what had happened, only that he was on his way home from Clyo when he suddenly found himself laying in the road covered in blood. He was taken to Memorial Hospital for treatment, and is facing DUI charges pending results from a blood test.

• A Faulkville man reported the theft of 8 tires, valued at $150 each, from a container in his back yard.

• Around 11:30pm, a man told Deputies he heard what sounded like his two ATV’s being started up. He ran outside in time to see the tail lights fading into the woods, got into his truck and began to follow them. That was hard to do since they’d gotten a head start on him, but he did recover one of them just south of his home. Deputies did pick up a suspect in the case later that night. That man claimed he’d gotten in an argument with a friend and asked to be dropped off on Hwy 119, and he was just walking home from there.

• Deputies responded to a report of a fight in Faulkville. They were told that a white Nissan was leaving the area, and one of the Deputies spotted it nearby and made a traffic stop. He smelled the odor of burnt marijuana coming from the car, and had his K-9 do a walk around scan of the car. The dog alerted on the driver’s side door seam, and the driver and his two passengers were arrested for possession of marijuana when he found a large baggie inside the car.

• A Deputy was westbound on Chimney Road close to 1am when he spotted a woman walking down the side of the roadway. He turned around to check on the woman, who was now walking down the westbound lane. The woman said she was walking home, and continued down the road, but stopped and walked back to the Deputy’s car where she walked into his driver’s side door. The Deputy couldn’t help noticing the smell of alcohol coming from the woman, and she told him her car was in a ditch on Old Augusta Road. She was then arrested for Pedestrian Under the Influence, and driving while suspended after dispatch advised her license had been suspended for a previous DUI.

• A Deputy was dispatched to a Standard Lane address where a man told him his $800 pit bull dog had been stolen. The man gave the Deputy the name of the suspect, whom neighbors had told him had taken the dog. The man had already recovered the pit bull from the wood line behind the suspect’s home.

• A woman called Deputies to report a terroristic threat. She showed them a letter that had apparently been written by everyone else in her neighborhood, saying they wanted her and her family gone. The letter said they were tired of the noise her and her children make, tired of their children tearing down No Trespassing signs in the neighborhood, and tired of her children riding their four wheelers on other people’s private property. (Where can I sign up?)

• A Deputy was on patrol on Midland Road when he saw the driver of a red Dodge pickup run the stop sign at Midland and Central Ave. He made a traffic stop, and the Guyton man was arrested for driving while suspended.

• A Deputy responded to a call from a residence where the homeowner said a man was knocking at their front door demanding to be let in around 1am. When they called 911, the man left with another man in a black pickup truck. The Deputy rode through the neighborhood and spotted a black pickup returning to the street of the residence that had called. The truck only had one operating headlight, so he made a traffic stop. The driver was asked for his license and insurance, and replied that he knew he was going to jail because his license was suspended and he was wanted in another jurisdiction. The Deputy ran his information through dispatch, and the man was driving on a suspended license, expired since 1994. He was arrested and taken to jail. His passenger was passed out in the front seat, and Deputies had a difficult time waking him up. He was released from the scene.

• Deputies responded to an accident on Springfield Road, and found a blue Jeep Cherokee on the side of the road. The driver had apparently fled the scene on foot. The Deputies found a large amount of blood in the driver’s side, and a strong odor of an alcoholic beverage. Later that night, a Deputy was called to a convenience store near the site, and found a man inside who was bleeding from a bad cut on his neck. The man admitted he’d been the driver, and had fled the scene because he’d been drinking. He was taken to the hospital for treatment, and was then arrested for DUI, open container, reckless driving, too fast for conditions, and leaving the scene of an accident.

• A woman told Police she awoke around 2am, looked out her back window, and saw a man stealing two large rolls of chain link fence she was having installed. Total value was $1000.

• A man filed a report of theft, telling Police that he’d allowed two men to rent a room from him for the past six months. When he got home the other night, they’d moved out and took a bed, a stereo system, a dresser, a large painting, a DVD player, his freezer, and about $600 worth of groceries.

• An Officer was dispatched to a mobile home lot where a contractor reported his 4000 watt generator had been stolen from the back of his pickup. The generator was valued at $400.

• Officers clocked an eastbound Atlanta man at 90mph in a 70mh zone on I-16 and pulled out to make a stop. The driver accelerated and exited onto Bloomingdale Road, making a quick right turn. One Officer made it to the top of the ramp in time to spot the man turning onto John Carter Road. He followed and saw the man turn off his headlights while still moving at a high rate of speed. The Officer called the chase into Dispatch, and pulled in behind the man when his car nearly wrecked in a ditch. He was arrested for fleeing to elude and reckless driving.

• An Officer made a traffic stop on a Chevy pickup on Bloomingdale Road when he noticed the tail lights on the pickup weren’t working. The driver had an odor of alcohol on his breath, and was soon arrested for underage drinking. The Officer went to see if the passenger had a valid license, and when he opened the passenger side door, a bottle of beer fell out and spilled on the ground. The passenger was then also arrested for underage drinking and open container violation.

• Around 3:30am, an Officer was passed by a Garden City man westbound on Hwy 80 who didn’t dim his bright lights. The Officer made a traffic stop, and the man began to flee on foot. The passenger in the car looked like he was about to take off running as well, and the Officer handcuffed him and put him in the patrol car. He was then taken to jail for possession of marijuana that was found inside the car.

• An Officer stopped a green Ford Ranger that was westbound on Hwy 80 around 2:30am for not having a working tag light. He smelled the odor of alcohol on the man’s breath and asked if he’d been drinking. The man replied, “Yeah, I’ve had a few deers.” The man was then arrested for DUI and taken to jail. (D’oh!)

• An Officer clocked a Mazda on I-16 at 110mph and made a traffic stop. The College Park man was arrested for reckless driving when he stepped out of his car.

• Around midnight, an Officer was eastbound on Hwy 80 and noticed a westbound Pontiac at a very low rate of speed. As he glanced in his rear view mirror, he saw the back up lights come on. He turned and made a traffic stop, and the man explained he was having transmission problems. He then failed the field sobriety test, and was arrested for DUI.

• Officers responded to a residence where a neighbor complained about the loud, vulgar rap music being played. The Officer noted that the music was so loud, the frame of the neighbor’s home was vibrating. They approached the residence and a woman answered the door. She explained that she was hard of hearing and had been locked in the bedroom, adding that her son must have cranked up the stereo. The son was outside, complaining that the Officers were just racists. He was told by his Momma to go inside several times, and finally did so. (It’s not that we’re old... your music really does suck.)

• A woman was returning to her car in the parking lot when two men cruised by in a brown and silver Honda. The passenger leaned out the car and grabbed the woman’s purse from the basket on the front of the woman’s wheelchair. The driver then maneuvered around a white SUV in the aisle and turned north on Hwy 21. The woman is missing $125 cash, along with her driver’s license, social security card, and her purse. (When these guys are caught, and they will be, they should be jailed out in that parking lot where people can go by and abuse them!)

Bryan County Sheriff’s Office

• A Richmond Hill woman told Deputies her bank alerted her that someone in Nashville had obtained her account number, and had cashed one of her checks for $1000. A man in Kentucky had done the same thing with an $800 check, but she was able to stop payment on that one. One other check had also been sent to a Miami man, but she had it cancelled as well.

• A Deputy was running radar in the median of Hwy 17 South when he was passed by a blue Lincoln Towncar at 90mph in the 55mph zone. He made a traffic stop, and the driver wreaked of alcohol. After failing his field sobriety tests and being placed under arrest for DUI, he was asked to take the Georgia breath test. The man replied, “Sure, ...I’m already screwed anyway...”

• A Deputy was southbound on Hwy 17 behind a group of cars when he saw a Ludowici woman in a red Explorer pull suddenly from the right hand lane into the left hand lane, causing another driver to slam on brakes and swerve into the median to avoid a collision. The Deputy got behind the woman and she was now weaving across the fog line with both left side tires in the median. He activated his lights to make a traffic stop, and the woman moved back into the right lane and stopped at the next intersection. The woman told him she’d swerved because she was eating something. He then asked if she’d been drinking, and she said “a couple of hours ago.” She failed her field sobriety test and was taken to jail for DUI. (Everybody now... “Ludowici woman, Mississippi man...”)

• A Deputy responded to a location off Charles Shuman Road for a report of shots fired. Once there, he noticed a man wobbling along on a bicycle, holding a beer in one hand. He stopped the man and, since he was responding to a shots fired call, frisked the man for weapons. Instead of a firearm, he found three crack pipes, and the man was on his way to jail for possession of cocaine.

• A woman filed a report of fraud after she was notified by Ebay that someone had purchased two Camaros on her account.

• The manager of a fast food business told Officers that a former employee came to her office to try and get her job back. Shortly after the ex-employee left, the manager realized she was now missing $759 cash from the three registers she had in her office. She’ll provide Police a DVD surveillance video that shows the ex-employee leaving, with a large bulge under her shirt.

• A large Pooler business turned in 23 counterfeit $20 bills that had been used at register #7. (I bet for $460 the manager’ll be going over the surveillance video pretty close!)

• A man with a black ski mask on walked into a Pooler convenience store, pointed a pistol at the clerk, and demanded all the money. A customer came in through a side door behind the robber and tackled him, wrestling him to the ground and holding him there until Officers arrived. The Faulkville man was arrested and taken to jail with no bond, charged with armed robbery and pointing a pistol at another. The pistol turned out to be a CO2 BB pistol. (JSH, ...you’re the man! Way to go!)

• A resident happened to notice a Septic Tank Service truck as it pulled to the side of Hwy 80 and began discharging the contents of the truck into the ditch on the north side of eastbound Hwy 80. When the two men noticed the man watching them, they quickly loaded the hoses from the truck and left the scene. The man gave the Officer the phone number and name of the business. Officers will be prosecuting. (Don’t expect any arrests soon, as they’re a little backed up right now.)

• A Memphis truck driver was going a little too fast as he exited southbound I-95 onto eastbound I-16, and wrecked his rig. He was then arrested for DUI. (And will probably have a hard time getting more work as a truck driver!)

• An Officer was working security off duty at a Pooler bar when he stepped outside in front of the business. He smelled the odor of burnt marijuana, but no one was out front. He then looked around on the side of the building, and three people were huddled there together. As he approached them, a Rincon woman dropped a small cigarette, which of course turned out to be marijuana. She was taken to jail.

• An Officer stopped a woman for speeding on Quacco Road, and called another Officer to the scene to translate for him. The woman told the Officer she didn’t have a driver’s license, and she was arrested.

• If you own the Nissan Maxima that was found parked in front of a fire hydrant, you can contact Police about getting your car out of the impound yard.