Items for sale

Knotty Pine desk w/chair, good for student $50. 4 wood kitchen chairs $80. HD wood stair rails for outside steps. $20 pair. Call 748-8101.

‘03 Nemesis Competition Series Go-Kart... Ready to race! New clutch, new tach, with cart! $1500 or best offer. Call 826-0898.

4 - Eagle Alloys 18” wheels and 3 Yokohama 255/55R18 AVS S/T tires, good cond. Fit 99 Honda Passport, Isuzu Rodeo, others. $700 or best offer. Call 657-3998.

16’ flatbed utility trailer, dual-axle. $1000 OBO. Call 912-604-0252.

First $150 TAKES IT! 2 months worth of Nutri-System Foods, unopened and good thru 5/08. Call 728-9199, Guyton.

THE SPIRIT WORKS!

Police Reports

Bryan County Sheriff’s Department

• An Ellabell man called 911 when he realized the flames from his neighbor’s yard burn had gotten out of control, crossed onto his property, damaged his fence and new fence posts, and was quickly spreading towards his hay field. He hopped on his own tractor and cut a fire break to keep it from spreading towards the residences. His neighbor didn’t realize that A. you have to have a burn permit from the Forestry Department to burn anything; and B. that the Forestry Department was not issuing burn permits to anyone due to the high potential for fires. (What, have you been in a coma for the past three months?)

• Deputies received a call from a Pembroke residence about a man needing to be removed from the home. The caller said the man was drunk and was wanting to fight with everyone at the home. Before the Deputy pulled up, the caller called again and said they’d started fighting with the man and were trying to hold him on the ground until they arrived. The man fled into the woods as the Deputy got out, but he walked back up as the Deputy called out to him. When he started cussing everybody for calling the Police, the Deputy placed him under arrest for disorderly conduct and public drunk. The man began resisting arrest, and another Deputy and a Pembroke Officer arrived to help get him under control. The man finally calmed down when the Pembroke Officer pulled his taser out and threatened to use it on him. (I swear every Officer out there needs one of those things!)

• A Deputy responded to an Ellabell residence where a woman said her boyfriend had gotten mad at her because she wouldn’t fix him any dinner. The Deputy spoke with the man who said he wanted a ride to his mother’s house, and the Deputy put him in the back seat of his patrol car. He then took him to jail when dispatch advised the man had a warrant for child support obligations. (I’m guessin’ there’s at least two women out there that wouldn’t cook for you!)

• Deputies met with a man who came into the Richmond Hill office and filed a report of fraudulent use of his debit card. The man had found that his card was used for a $700 purchase from the Nike Women’s store in Los Angeles, as well as a $500 purchase at a Chevron station there and $150 in purchases from a pizza parlor there. (Man, how can they afford to live in California? $150 worth of pizza??? Apologies to Paul!)

• A Deputy made a traffic stop after clocking a Savannah woman at 76mph in a 55mph zone of Hwy 17. The woman handed over her Georgia ID card and said “I don’t have a license.” The Deputy then had her contact a family member to come and take care of her child while she was taken to jail.

• A Deputy was told to be on the lookout for a possible drunk driver on Hwy 280 around 9:30pm. He spotted the man in a Honda Accord and made a traffic stop when he saw both passenger side tires cross the fog line. He approached the driver and asked the man for his driver’s license and insurance card. The man handed over his Visa card and was arrested for DUI. Animal Control was called to get the man’s pit bull from his car, especially after the man advised that the dog would bite. All the way to jail, the man preached to the Deputy how God was going to get him for treating him bad. The Deputy set up the Intoxilyzer test, and instructed the man to blow in it to record a sample of his breath/alcohol. The man claimed to be blowing as hard as he could, but the Deputy could see that he wasn’t. He kept telling the man he had to blow hard to get a sufficient sample to register on the machine, and the man took the tube out of his mouth and blew in the Deputy’s face, saying “Can you feel that you S.O.B.?!” The Deputy then charged him with DUI Refusal and Obstruction and turned him over to jailers.

• A contractor had reported several stolen tools on May 12th. On May 14th, he got a call from a woman he suspected of being involved in the theft. She told him she would help him recover his tools if he promised not to prosecute her and agreed to give her $150 for turning them in. The man agreed, and met with her. She led him to an Ellabell address where he recovered his tools. The man there said the woman and another man had sold him the tools for drug money. When the woman found out the man had called Deputies to turn her in for extortion, she fled the area.

Pooler

• A Savannah man told Police that he’d left his black Chevy pickup on the side of I-16 and that it wouldn’t run. He returned three days later and the truck was gone. The Officer called all local towing companies and couldn’t find one that had moved the pickup.

• An Officer clocked a white Ford pickup at 71mph in a 55mph zone of Jimmy DeLoach Parkway and made a traffic stop. The South Carolina man couldn’t produce an insurance card and the truck had to be towed from the scene. The man asked for a ride to Effingham and was told they couldn’t take him that far. He was last seen walking towards Hwy 80 talking on his cell phone.

• An Officer clocked a Garden City man at 49mph in the 25mph school zone on Pine Barren Road. The driver said he didn’t speaky no English, but did say that he didn’t have a license. His boss was contacted and he soon showed up, in time to get a citation for allowing an unlicensed person to drive.

• The pit bull and the Boston Terrorer that plagued South Skinner Avenue recently were back at it last week, chasing workers from a home construction project. One of the dogs was charging towards the Officer just as a Ford Five Hundred came down the street. The dog ran into the driver’s side door and then slinked off into a neighbors front yard, unhurt but no longer ready to tangle with the Officer. The owner was warned that any further violations of the city ordinance would result in a criminal violation and a court appearance. (How ‘bout somebody showing this guy the ad for K-9 Fencing in this paper!!!)

• In a shocking development during last Thursday’s thunderstorm..., a Pooler woman told Police she was travelling on Pooler Parkway near I-16 when her Volkswagen Jetta was struck by lightning, which damaged the car’s electrical system causing the Jetta to quit working. (Are you sure that was the lightning?) About the same time, a Towne Lake family reported seeing a bolt flash outside their front window. Next thing they knew, their carpet in front of their fireplace was on fire!

• Officers responded to a residence for a report of a domestic dispute and found that the woman had already left the home. They could tell that by the orange ‘98 Harley Davidson Softtail laying on it’s side with the broken handlebars in the front yard. (Man, and I thought my wife was mean!)

• An Officer responded to the Goodwill donation box on Sunday afternoon where he met with a Bloomingdale woman who’d accidentally tossed her purse in. She didn’t realize it until she went to WalMart and couldn’t locate her checkbook. When she returned, her purse and all it’s contents were missing from the bin.

• A woman filed a complaint with Officers claiming that a nail salon had overcharged her daughter. The Officer spoke with the owner of the salon, who explained that the woman’s daughter kept changing her mind about the color and kept having her re-do her nails. When told about that, the mother agreed that she’d been charged fairly.

• An Officer responded to a local conenience store where the manager said a review of the store’s videotape showed an employee taking a money order from the store. That explained the $300 shortage in the cash register that afternoon. The employee at first denied it, but finally admitted to the Officer that she’d taken the money order and it was still inside her car in the parking lot. She was able to retrieve it and turn it back in to the manager, to her former manager. She was then taken to jail on theft by taking charges.

• A man told Police he got a call from Home Depot saying that his credit card had been declined on the purchase of a carpet cleaner, and that he needed to come pay the $45 bill. That’s when he realized that a relative had stolen his credit card.

• An Officer was northbound on Pooler Parkway when he saw a white Chevy van make a U-turn in front of the fire station, plainly marked “No U-Turn.” He made a traffic stop and the Blufton man said he couldn’t speak English and didn’t have a driver’s license. (The sign may as well have said “No Illegal Aliens.”)

Port Wentworth

• Officers responded to a convenience store on Hwy 21 at I-95 after a woman called to report a stolen vehicle in the parking lot. The woman said the ‘92 Buick Regal had been stolen from her father’s business parking lot in Waynesville, and she said the man driving it was inside the convenience store playing video games. The Officer confirmed by the license plate that the car had been stolen. Dispatch also advised that the man inside was wanted for theft in Crisp County. They went inside and confronted the man, and the placed him under arrest for the warrant to be held for extradition.

• A truck repair business told Police that two suspects had work done on their tractor. The couple said they’d be back within thirty minutes to pay their bill. The shop owner didn’t realize they’d left in the tractor and never returned to pay the $600 bill.

• A City Worker asked Officers to write a citation for theft of water services. They’d placed a lock on the water meter and the new tenant had broken the lock off and secured water for her home. The woman there said that she’d rented the home and tried to have the water turned on at City Hall. However, the owner of the property had not paid the previous water bill, and the City wouldn’t allow her to turn the water on until he’d paid. She said she had small children in the home and needed water service.

• The manager of a local 24 hour diner called to report that one of his waitresses had taken $200 from the cash register and given it to her boyfriend. The woman told the Officer that was true, but that she thought he’d bring the money back before her shift was over. She promised she’d pay the money back, but the manager said that the home office doesn’t allow him to accept repayment arrangements like that.

• An Officer was set up in the Bonnybridge Baptist Church parking lot running radar around 5:30pm when he clocked a white BMW at 50mph in the 35mph zone. He pulled out and activated his lights and siren to make a traffic stop, but the driver instead accelerated, turning right on Hwy 21. He pulled quickly into a driveway nearly striking a tree and a parked car. He was taken to jail for DUI Refusal, obstruction, fleeing to elude an Officer, reckless driving, and driving without a driver’s license.

• Around 1am, an Officer spotted a westbound Jeep on Hwy 80 that was having a hard time maintaining it’s lane. He made a traffic stop and a Springfield woman was arrested for DUI.

• Just after midnight, an Officer stopped a gray Chevy pickup for failing to maintain it’s lane, also while westbound on Hwy 80. The driver got out of the pickup and told the Officer his license was suspended, and he was taken to jail.

• An Officer clocked a Savannah man at 88mph in a 70mph zone of I-16 and made a traffic stop. The Officer learned that the man’s license had been suspended just 5 days earlier for serious violations, and the man was taken to jail.

• An Officer received an anonymous call complaining of loud music coming from a home on John Carter Road. The Officer responded, turned off his lights and rode down the road with his windows rolled down. The only noise he heard was “the crickets chirping.” (Wonder if they sound like The Beatles!)

• A Pooler Officer notified a Bloomingdale Officer that he’d followed a suspected drunk driver into Bloomingdale. The Officer asked him to go ahead and make a traffic stop and he’d be on the way. He arrived and asked the woman for her driver’s license, and she began searching all through her pocketbook trying to find it. She’d forgotten that just a few minutes earlier she’d given it to the Pooler Officer. He then asked if she’d take a field sobriety test, and she agreed, but asked if she could put her shoes on first. The Officer told her she could, but then she didn’t bother to. Due to her problems with asthma, and because she was very cooperative, the woman was released with a citation and court date for DUI.

• An Officer made a traffic stop on a speeding Jacksonville man around 7pm after clocking him at 89mph on I-16. The man said he’d just gotten a phone call that his brother had been in an accident in Augusta and that was why he was speeding. Of course, that didn’t explain why he was drinking the case of Natural Light. He was arrested and taken to jail for DUI.

• A man and woman had recently purchased the mobile home and were told they could leave it on the site and live in it for the time being. Around 10pm, a man pulled up in front of their home and got out of his truck and began turning the water off. The man went outside to see what he was doing, and the man said “I’ve got the right to be here!” He then threatened the man, saying that if he un-tied his dog, he would kill them both. The man instead called Police. The Officer explained that they’d bought the home from the man’s sister, and they were having problems that will have to be settled in civil court.

• A contractor reported the theft of five 50’ rolls of copper ground wire.

• I was in front of a log truck in the left hand lane headed east from Bloomingdale last Wednesday morning when the log truck moved over into the right hand lane. Apparently the driver didn’t notice the Chevy Silverado in that lane, and the Guyton man and his wife had to swerve off the highway to avoid being hit. I called 911 and reported what I’d seen, and got in front of the log truck and slowed down to make him stop. The trucker said the Chevy was in his blind spot and he didn’t see it. The Guyton couple appeared pretty shook up, and the man was concerned that his front end would need to be re-aligned. (I can understand that the truck was in your blind spot, but it’s pretty amazing that you didn’t notice it bouncing up and down on the side of the road after you’d forced him off the highway and didn’t stop!)

Effingham County Sheriff’s Office

• Deputies were in route to a Faulkville home for a reported armed robbery. One Deputy spotted a car matching the description given of the one the perps were leaving the scene in. He made a traffic stop and detained the four young men. At the home, the victim said he’d been watching the ball game in his shed when one of the men walked up and asked about buying his red Ford pickup. The man said it wasn’t for sale, and the soon-to-be-career-criminal pulled a handgun, pointed it at the man’s face and demanded his money. The victim replied “Nope, you’re not getting my wallet!” Another offender then entered the shed, pushed the man to the floor, and then both began to kick and beat him. The man began yelling for his neighbors, and the two left, taking the man’s checkbook with them. All four of the young men were arrested and charged with armed robbery and aggravated assault.

• A Springfield man reported that local hoodlums entered his new home and spray painted “LE Bloods Effingham” and “Lord Effingham” on the interior walls of his home. The man was able to give Deputies the name of a good suspect who lives in a nearby neighborhood and whom he’s had trouble with in the past. (Punk gang wannabes! Just need their butts kicked a time or two!)

• A Deputy happened to be nearby when a Port Wentworth Officer called after he’d stopped a Guyton man for passing cars on Midland Road on his motorcycle while doing a wheelie. He was arrested for reckless driving.

• A man called Deputies after learning there was a party going on at his river landing off Old River Road. The people partying at the site were trespassing, and he wanted the Deputies to advise them all to leave. He’d closed the gate on his access road to the site when another car load pulled up wondering how you got down to the party. The man pointed down his access road, and the driver pulled off in that direction. The Deputy and the man rode down and found the car stopped at the gate, apparently stuck in the sand. The Deputy’s K-9 alerted on the passenger side door, and the Deputy found a baggie of crack cocaine. The driver and two passengers went to jail for possession with intent to distribute.

• A Deputy was dispatched to Georgia Pacific for a report of damage to property. Security officials led him to an office on the third floor and showed him a computer screen with a pipe wrench laying through the glass. (Talk about disgruntled employees!! Must have lost another game of Solitaire!)

• A Deputy responded to a report of a boat and trailer being found in a clearing about a mile and a half off Midland Road. The boat trailer had been reported as stolen out of Bryan County. The boat, however, did not come back as stolen.

• A Deputy received a fax from the Habersham County Sheriff’s Office saying that a Clarksville, Georgia man had won a sweepstakes. The notification letter sent to the man included a check for $4800, and he was supposed to cash it and send back $2975 to pay the taxes on his winnings. Why it was sent from Habersham County to Effingham County is still a mystery.

• Also reported stolen this week: a pair of sandals, valued at $5; a $5 bait well; a $10 small cooler; two fishing rods and reels, valued at $30; and a plastic lawn chair valued at $5.

• A landscaping contractor from Savannah was on his way to an Effingham jobsite pulling a trailer loaded with hay when the driver flicked his cigarette out the window. The lit butt landed in the trailer of course, and caught the hayand trailer on fire. The Fire Department was called to extinguish the flames.

• Around 10:30pm, a Deputy noticed a green Saturn in front of him on Hwy 17 that was weaving in the roadway. He made a traffic stop, and the Savannah man handed over a traffic citation from a few days earlier. The citation said the man had been charged with his second offense of driving while unlicensed. The Deputy spun him around and slapped the cuffs on this idiot and took him to jail for his third offense of driving while unlicensed.

• A Deputy made a traffic stop on a truck load of juveniles in a Chevy Blazer that didn’t have a working brake light. All the youngsters were very nervous acting, and the Deputy asked if he could search the truck. He found a purple Crown Royal bag inside the glove box that contained a marijuana pipe, and another Deputy arrived on the scene and found several small baggies that contained cocaine residue. The driver’s mother happened along about that time, and the Deputy turned the youngsters over to her. She assured him that she would inform the other kids’ parents. (My daddy woulda made me cut the grass with a pair of scissors and rake it with a fork!)

• Deputies responded to a Rincon residence for a family dispute between two sisters who were arguing over concert tickets and cemetery plots. (Must’ve been tickets for the Grateful Dead!)

• Just before 1:30am, an Officer clocked a Dodge Durango eastbound on Hwy 80 at 64mph in the 45mph zone. He turned around to make a traffic stop, and followed the Dodge as it turned onto Chatham Parkway. He approached the driver, and noticed the open beer she was holding between her legs. He asked if she’d been drinking, and the woman said she had not. With an open beer sitting between her legs. The Deputy then charged her with open container violation and had her passenger empty the beer on the ground. The woman failed every step of her field sobriety test and the Officer placed her under arrest for DUI. He then asked if she would submit to the state breath test, and the woman said she wanted to speak to her lawyer. He tried four more times, reading the implied consent notice to her and asking her for a simple yes or no answer to whether she would submit to the state test of her breath. Each time, she would only say that she wanted to speak with her lawyer. She was taken to jail and charged with DUI Refusal, which is an automatic loss of license.