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Police Reports

Bryan County Sheriff’s Department

• Talk about bad luck... A Deputy was on Cypress Bay Loop Road when he spotted a goat in the middle of the road. He stopped, and the goat realized he was in trouble so he slinked back to the hole in the fence he’d crawled out of and crawled back inside. The Deputy spotted a man in the yard and mentioned to him about his goat getting out, and then recognized that his Department had a warrant for the man’s arrest for child support obligations. The man was soon on his way to jail because his goat got out.

• Another Deputy responded to a call from an Ellabell woman who told him she’d hit an armadillo while westbound on Hwy 280. The ‘dillo damaged her Dodge’s oil pan, and now her car won’t run.

• A Deputy was on routine patrol on Fisherman’s Co-op Road and found the main gate to the old co-op, as well as the gate to the Red Bird Hunting Club had both been pulled down, apparently with a pickup truck.

Pooler

• It was around 3:30am when an Officer spotted a Subaru eastbound on Hwy 80 with no working taillights. He made a traffic stop as the Tennessee man crossed under I-95. He was unable to produce a driver’s license, handing over his Tennessee ID. Dispatch advised the man’s license was suspended, and he was placed under arrest. The Officer then ran the license plate number by dispatch to verify that the car had insurance, and dispatch advised that the car had been stolen in Morristown, Tennessee. The woman in the car was also arrested, and both charged with possession of stolen property, possession of controlled substances, and bringing stolen property into Georgia.

• A Walterboro contractor for Georgia Power filed a report after a 2000’ spool of aluminum cable was stolen from his job site. The cable is valued at $1 a foot.

• The owner of a local restaurant explained to Officers that he’d provided one of his waitresses with a cell phone on his account. It cost him about $50, and she was to repay him from her earnings. He’d recently discovered that she was using the phone to make long distance calls to Mexico, running his bill up to over $750. He said the woman keeps putting him off on repaying him, and he’s concerned they’re going to cancel his service soon. On top of that, the woman is still using the phone to make the calls to Mexico. (I’d think that falls into the category of “Your paycheck’s gonna be a little short for the rest of the year!”)

• A woman called Police after her neighbor came to her residence intoxicated complaining about a vehicle in her driveway with the lights still on.

• Note to the man with the red Camaro that didn’t have the eight bucks to pay for your gas... You’ve got until Saturday morning to get back to the gas station to pay the bill. It’d be a shame to go to jail for stealing $8 worth of gas, and they’ve got your tag number!

• An Officer was checking vehicles coming through the school zone on Pine Barren Road when he called in the license plate on a Dodge Caravan and dispatch advised that the registration had been suspended. He made a traffic stop and asked about the insurance coverage on the van. “Oh, I have insurance, I just don’t have my card with me,” the woman said. The Officer began writing out the citations for the woman and then noticed that her birthday and the vehicle registration date were both in January. He looked at the sticker on the plate and it said June, but when he looked closer, he could tell that the woman had taped over the “A” in January and replaced it with a “U.” She admitted altering the plate, and her van was towed. (I’d expect the Judge will throw the book at her!)

• A man called to complain that he’d just learned that a registered sex offender had recently moved into a home in his neighborhood. He told the Officers that the school bus stop happens to be right in front of the man’s residence. His complaint was that he wanted to know why the Officer couldn’t just knock on the man’s door and give him thirty minutes to leave. The Officer verified the man’s information and learned that the Sheriff’s Office would be helping the man to relocate very soon.

• A mobile home resident received a call from a bill collector on behalf of DirectTV trying to collect on a debt of almost $350. The man said he’d never had DirectTV, and found that the subscription for service was for a Ridgeland, SC home.

Port Wentworth

• An Officer made a traffic stop on a red Ford Mustang on Hwy 21 near Hwy 30 for having a defective headlight. The driver didn’t have his license, and said he’d just purchased the car, and showed the Officer his handwritten bill of sale. The Officer asked his name and date of birth, and the man gave a different name than the name on the bill of sale. He ran a check on the name on the paperwork, and the man came back with two

arrest warrants and no driver’s license. He was arrested for giving false identity information to a law enforcement officer and for driving while unlicensed.

• Around 4pm, an Officer was trying to make a traffic stop on a gold Toyota, but a green Saturn was following too closely behind the Toyota and the driver wouldn’t yield to the Officer’s lights and siren. He stopped both cars, and gave the Toyota driver a citation for speeding. The driver of the Saturn was taken to jail for driving while suspended with four active suspensions and for possession of marijuana. (And all you had to do was slow down and let the Officer get by you!)

• Around 5:30am, an Officer responded to an accident investigation. One of the victims provided him with the information on the offender’s vehicle, and it was soon found at a residence in Garden City. The owner of that car was brought outside and identified by the victim as the driver of the car that had struck him. Officers then conducted a field sobriety test on the man, and arrested him for DUI and possession of controlled substances not in their original container.

• Kudos to Sgt. Jack Caldwell who responded to a neighbor’s home while off duty, and successfully rescued a kitten from the woman’s garage Sgt. Caldwell even found a good home for the kitten to keep it from being turned over to Animal Control!

• An Officer tried to stop a motorcyclist he clocked at 74mph in a 55mph zone of Hwy 21. The motorcyclist switched lanes several times and simply accelerated away from the Officer. However, ...there’s always a “however” in these stories..., the Officer had notified another Officer who set up on Hwy 21 close to Goshen Road and slowed all traffic and stopped the biker. He was taken to jail for speeding, reckless driving, and fleeing to elude.

• An Officer responded to a request by Savannah Metro for an Officer with a Taser to help with a suicidal man at a Savannah residence. The man was very intoxicated, and very big. He was trying to goad Savannah Officers into shooting him. The man was unarmed, but due to his size, nobody really wanted to mess with him. The Port Wentworth Officer was in position to taser the guy, but the supervising Officer convinced the man to simply surrender, and he didn’t get to zap him! (Dang it!)

• An Officer caught a Pembroke contractor loading up his water tank with a thousand gallons from the fire hydrant on Hwy 21 near I-95. The man said this was his third time filling the tanker. He was given a $1000 bill for the 3,000 gallons of water and was released on subpoena to appear before the Judge. (In Pooler or Rincon, that would have been a felony!)

Bloomingdale

• Apparently the woman had a few alcoholic beverages before she decided to hop onto the four wheeler and ride it around the back yard. She lost control and it flipped over on top of her. She was taken to Memorial Hospital for treatment.

• Just before 9pm, an Officer clocked a Maryland woman in a silver Jaguar at 88mph in a 45mph zone of Hwy 80. He pulled out to make a traffic stop, but the woman continued on, turning onto a side street and then into a driveway where the Officer stopped her as she tried to exit from her car. The woman began telling him she had to pick her daughter up from school and she needed to go. The Officer kept asking for her driver’s license and the woman couldn’t seem to find it as she passed over it several times in her wallet. The Officer advised her why he’d stopped her, for speeding almost 90mph. The woman then said he was crazy, although she added a profane adjective to it, over and over. She was soon taken to jail for DUI and obstruction for her uncooperative attitude with the Officer, who had already contacted other family members and learned that the woman’s daughter had already been picked up from school by others and was safe and sound. The woman apparently didn’t believe him and kept insisting that he had to let her go so she could pick her up. (Just a little FYI... an Officer that stops you while you’re driving drunk, especially at almost twice the speed limit, isn’t going to let you go so you can go pick up a child and put their life in danger!!)

• An Officer clocked a westbound Honda CRV at 88mph in a 70mph zone of I-16 and made a traffic stop. He asked the driver for his license, and the man began patting his pants and finally said he didn’t have it with him. He was asked to step out of the vehicle where he began stumbling around. The Officer asked if he’d been drinking, and the man raised his right hand and said “No! I swear!” He was soon arrested for DUI-Under 21 years of age. All three of his passengers were arrested for open container and possession of alcohol underage.

• Around 3am, an Officer noticed a Nissan pickup as it was leaving the parking lot of an apartment complex. The driver kept crossing over the fog line of Hwy 80 and he finally made a traffic stop. The driver tried to explain that it was foggy, ...and he needed glasses, ...yeah, that’s the ticket, he needed glasses! The Officer was okay with that but the odor of alcohol forced him to take the Savannah man to jail for his second DUI offense.

• An Officer was alerted by dispatch to be on the lookout for a black pickup truck westbound on Hwy 80 that may have an intoxicated driver. About that time, the eastbound Officer spotted a black Dodge pickup westbound slamming on brakes to avoid running into the back of the car in front of him. The Officer made a traffic stop and asked the man for his driver’s license. Instead, he handed over his Ohio ID card. Dispatch confirmed his license was suspended. The Officer had another Officer give the man field sobriety tests, which he failed, while he interviewed the woman who’d been in front of the pickup. She said the man had been tailgating her all the way from Pooler Parkway. The Officer had the pickup towed from the scene and took the man back to the Police Department for the Intoxilyzer test. He pointed to a chair and told the man to sit down. “Make me,” was the man’s reply, and my butt cheeks are still hurting from reading how the Officer obliged him. The man was soon on his way to jail where he also got mouthey with a Deputy about which cell he was going to be locked in.

Effingham County Sheriff’s Office

• A Deputy stopped a Sylvania man for speeding 72mph in a 45mph zone of Hwy 21 near the Screven County border around 11:30pm. The man was taken to jail when his license turned up suspended.

• A Deputy clocked a motorcylist at 64mph in a 50mph zone of Old River Road. As he turned around to make a stop, the biker quickly accelerated to get away. The Deputy followed, reaching speeds over 90mph. He pulled even with him on Bay Road and the biker pointed just up the road. He pulled in behind a private residence there, and the Deputy saw him walking towards him from the rear of the home.He ordered the man to the ground, threatening to deploy his taser if the man didn’t cooperate quickly and completely. The man did as instructed, and was soon on his way to jail for fleeing to elude, driving while suspended, and parole violation.

• At 3:45am, a Deputy responded to a single vehicle accident at a convenience store in Guyton, and a man was taken to jail for DUI.

• Just before 6am, a Deputy was sent to Ebenezer Road for a report of a man lying face down on the side of the road. The Deputy found him, and the man was just asleep, very intoxicated. The Deputy began to question him, and when the man couldn’t remember where he lived, he was taken to jail for public drunk. (Welcome to the County jail, Otis!)

• A Deputy was advised by dispatch to be on the lookout for a white truck with a ladder sticking out the back that was harassing another motorist on Hwy 21 near Springfield. The Deputy spotted the truck and stopped the driver at a convenience store. He was arrested for driving while suspended.

• Deputies were dispatched to the intersection of McCall and Golden Roads in reference to a truck stuck on the railroad tracks. The vehicle was found about a half mile from McCall Road, unoccupied. The truck was okay until a southbound train came along, ...and couldn’t stop in time. The driver of the truck was identified and arrested for criminal trespass. (A 2004 Nissan Xterra! That’s an expensive lesson to learn about riding down railroad tracks!)

• A home builder working at a site in Guyton reported the home’s outside air conditioning unit, valued at $1240, had been stolen overnight.

• Deputies arrived to serve a warrant at a Rincon apartment. They heard someone running around inside as they knocked on the front door. They gained entry through a side door that had been left open. The man’s mother told them he wasn’t home, and when warned with possible obstruction charges if they found out she was lying, the mom changed it to she didn’t know if he was home. As the Deputies got ready to check the bedrooms, the man finally came out from his hiding spot in a closet and turned himself in. (Man comes out of closet and proclaims himself ready for jail! “Could you hand me a fresh new bar of soap, please?”)

• Around 10:30pm, Deputies arrived at a Rincon residence for a 911 hangup call. There, they heard yelling coming from inside the home. A woman told them she’d found a mysterious black box mounted in the trunk of her new Chevrolet. She’d been out of town the week before, and felt that her husband had the box installed while she was away. The husband tried explaining to the Deputies that he didn’t know what she was talking about. During their argument over the puzzling box, the woman had dialed the phone and handed it to him so he could speak with whoever she’d called. He simply hung up, and didn’t realize she’d dialed 911 until the Deputies arrived. The Deputies then learned that the woman is taking several different medications for depression, and after she related to them how she and a friend keep seeing “weird faces” in the window tint on the windows of her car, they left.

• A Guyton man filed a report of harassing phone calls against a man trying to sell them his brand of prescription drugs. He said he needed a Police Report to get the phone company to block the guy’s number from calling his home. (But the important question is... can he sell print advertising???)

• Around 5:30pm, a Deputy was southbound on Hwy 119 just north of the Steel Bridge when he spotted another southbound car, a red Plymouth Neon, drift over the centerline where it ran a Ford Explorer off the roadway. Before he could make a traffic stop, the driver also veered off the side of the road. When he got the Neon stopped, a Claxton man was arrested for driving while unlicensed.

• A Rincon man told Deputies he was in his backyard with his wife and 8 month old child when a 90-95 pound Rottweiler came into the yard with them. The dog showed no aggression, but the man was concerned for the safety of his family. Animal Control was notified.

• Kids these days... A Deputy was on patrol at one of the local high schools when he heard a male student dropping the “F” word around a couple of female students. He asked the young man to step over to him, and the boy, ...let’s face it, that’s what he is... replied “You can’t do anything to me!” The Deputy then attempted to escort the boy to the principal’s office. The Principal explained to him that his behavior was unacceptable, to which the little snot nosed punk replied “Yeah, whatever, buddy.” The principal advised him he was the principal of the school and not his buddy. The bad-boy-bad-boy-whatcha-gone-do-when-they-come-for-you-cause -they’ll-definitely-be-coming-for-you-one-day-soon then became hostile and began mocking the principal, and trying to provoke him into a fight. Juvenile Justice was contacted, and the boy was turned over to his Mommy until his court date. (Boy, you’d better learn how to say “Want fries wid dat?” With your attitude towards adults, that’s ‘bout the best you can hope for. And don’t think you’ll be able to get a job in construction, ‘cause you’ll just be gettin’ your tail kicked on a daily basis like that!)

• Around midnight, a Deputy found a blue Ford Thunderbird at the corner of Old River Road and Stonegate Drive. It was missing a license plate, the radio wires were hanging out of the dashboard, there was no key in the ignition, and the switch was broken off.

• At 11pm, Deputies responded to a convenience store where the clerk said two customers had come inside and said a man in a GMC pickup had hit the gas pumps. One of the Deputies found the offender sitting parked in the parking lot. The man was asked for his license, and he responded “You can arrest me for DUI.... I am drunk! You can only arrest me for public drunk!” After failing a field sobriety test miserably, he was arrested for DUI and driving while suspended. (I love when a drunk tries to tell Deputies what they can and can’t do, ...like they know the law better than the guys paid to enforce it!)

• Just after 3am, a Deputy was stopped at the intersection of Little McCall and Courthouse Roads. He watched as a red Pontiac pulled up and ran through the stop line before stopping. The Deputy then followed the Pontiac to the next intersection, at Midland Road, and noted that the driver crossed the fog line several times. She was arrested for DUI after failing her field sobriety tests.

Garden City

• Officers were conducting a roadside safety check on the westbound off ramp from I-16 onto Chatham Parkway around midnight when a Savannah man came through in his silver Monte Carlo. The Officer asked for his license and insurance, and the Officer caught the odor of marijuana from inside the car. The man handed over his Georgia ID card, and dispatch advised that his license was suspended, ...for a previous drug violation. He was arrested for driving while suspended, and the Officer then found a lot of marijuana residue on the center console and an open baggy of marijuana beneath the driver’s seat. (Sounds like he was rolling a joint about the time he pulled up for the roadside safety check! Nice timing there Beavis!)

• Officers responded to a call about a stolen bulldozer from a man’s property. They located it about 200 feet into the wood line, damaged.

• Officers responded to a local motel where the clerk had discovered that the occupants of room 218 were not the same people who had rented the room. They found one man who admitted he’d gotten a friend to rent the room for him, and it turned out that the motel had served him with a criminal trespass notice in the recent past. The Officers also found marijuana in the room, and called for two other Officers with K-9’s to respond. When the dogs got there, they alerted to the mattress in the room, where the Officers also found a large quantity of crack cocaine. All four people in the room were arrested for possession of cocaine with intent to distribute, and over $1100 was confiscated.

Rincon

• An Officer responded to Madison Oaks subdivision after several calls about a large group of teenagers and youth in the front yard of one residence, hindering passing traffic. The Officer spoke with one teenage girl who lived there who said her mother was inside asleep. The Officer asked her to wake her up and have her come outside. She arrived soon, and the Officer explained about the calls they’d received. The woman said she wasn’t familiar with the teenagers’ actions, adding that she wasn’t responsible for all of them anyway. The Officer then explained that as long as they claimed to be visiting her children or her residence, that indeed she was responsible for their actions and could be held legally responsible for the general control and order of her household. The woman said she understood and quickly ordered all the young people to leave.

• If you’re missing a full grown black or dark brown, male, possibly a Pit Bull/Lab mix, he was found running around Savannah Avenue with no collar on and the Officer, who noted how friendly he was, had to take him to the Animal Shelter. Please go get him and buy him a nice collar!

• Around midnight, an Officer met the Amtrak train on West 9th Street. The engineer and conductor requested that the Officer remove an intoxicated passenger from the train. The Officer found the man standing amongst numerous empty Budweiser 16 ounce cans, shouting profanities at the other passengers. He was escorted off the train and taken to the Pilot convenience store on I-95 and Hwy 21 to wait for his brother to come pick him up from Florida. (Oh, I bet his brother was happy to get that phone call!!)

• Officers met with a plumber who pointed out that someone had stolen $400 worth of copper tubing from the back of his Ford F-250.

• And Officers responded to a residence where a man filed a report after waking up to find his two $400 wicker rocking chairs were missing from his front porch.

Bulloch County Sheriff’s Office

• Deputies arrived at a vacant Statesboro residence in reference to an animal complaint. One Deputy already had an injured dog on the front porch. That dog had a severe cut on it’s neck. In the back yard, they found another dog tied up with coaxial cable and a coat hanger wrapped so tight around it’s neck that the Deputy couldn’t squeeze his finger between the wire and the dog’s neck. Both animals were taken to a vet’s office for care. Deputies have two suspects who’ve been arrested in the past for animal abandonment. Charges are pending. (And punishment should be swift and severe!)

• A Deputy responded to an Ellabell address for a damage to property report. The man there showed him the broken window on his pickup truck, and said that a neighbor told him that his 5 year old son had thrown a rock through the window, but that it was an accident. The man asked him about repairing it, and the man said he wouldn’t do that because it was, you know... an accident. That’s when the owner decided to call the Deputies. The man could not be located at that time.

• Deputies responded to a report of damage to a home in Portal, possibly by a tornado. On arrival, he found that a pecan tree had been blown over onto a mobile home, knocking a hole in the roof and shifting the home off of it’s foundation.

• Deputies received reports of a blue Dodge van on I-16 that was swerving wildly on the interstate and spun out and lost control at one point. On the way there, he was advised that the van had pulled off on Hwy 67 and the men were now inside a convenience store causing a disturbance. He arrived and arrested an Alabama man and a Texas man on public drunkenness, DUI, and driving while suspended charges.