Items for sale

1 airline approved pet carrier for large puppy, Sherpa brand: $50. 1 airline approved carrier for large dog: $60. 1 Easy Rider dog car harness, medium: $10. One buyer, all three items: $100. Call 912-772-5549.

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.

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

Dining room table with 6 chairs and China cabinet, cherry color, very good condition, looks new. $1300. Call 728-3417 or 728-4451.

Table with 4 chairs, table is brass and beveled glass, 36"X54", $150. Also battery operated lift for motorized wheelchair, fitted for van, $300. Call 663-4454.

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Police Reports

Bulloch County Sheriff’s Office

• Deputies were investigating a burglary case and made contact with a man to inquire about the whereabouts of the suspect. The man said he hadn’t seen the suspect in at least four days. The Deputies then located the suspect’s car in the man’s backyard. When asked about it, the man suddenly took off running into the woods. They decided that, rather than chasing him through the briars and the brambles, they’d just tow his car and hold it until the man turned himself in on the warrant they’d take out for obstruction. (Smartest thing I’ve read in the Police Reports in a long time!)

• A Register man came into the Sheriff’s Office and spoke with a Deputy about a problem he was having. He’d purchased a 1989 Jeep Cherokee from a Claxton woman with the understanding that once he paid her in full, she would provide him with the title to the vehicle. Since he’s paid her off, he’s discovered that she still owes CitiFinancial for the car, and she can not provide him with the title. He was referred to the Magistrate Court.

• A man is trying to open a new restaurant on Hwy 301 South. He paid a contractor $3,100 to come and paint the building for him, and since that time, the contractor has pressure washed the outside of the building and not returned. He’s also hung up or just avoided the thirty phone calls the business owner has placed to him. He was also referred to Magistrate Court. (A small independent businessman just can’t catch a break!)

• Deputies responded to a report of a red pickup truck striking a trashcan and leaving the scene. Miraculously, they found the red pickup and the driver was arrested for DUI, leaving the scene of an accident, and driving while suspended.

• A Deputy met with jailers after a Savannah woman, visiting an inmate, became disorderly and disruptive during her visit. She was asked to leave, but refused to do so. Fortunately, she didn’t have far to go when she was arrested for disorderly conduct.

• Deputies found a Mudd Road woman too intoxicated to stand up in her front yard. With no one home to take care of her in her inebriated state, she was arrested on charges of public drunkenness and taken to jail to sleep it off. (I never knew Otis had a sister!)

• Deputies made contact with a resident of West Hwy 80 who’s home had been burglarized. He’s missing $1400 cash, a $50 jewelry box, and about $3000 worth of jewelry. He said he left his home for about one hour, leaving the door unlocked. When he returned, someone had entered his home and stolen his stuff.

• A Deputy clocked a gold Chevy Silverado at 92mph in the 55mph zone of Westside Road just before 9pm. He made a traffic stop, and the Statesboro man was arrested for driving while suspended and no taillights on a trailer in tow.

• A Brooklet woman was arrested for public drunkenness after neighbors called to complain that she was wandering from house to house, knocking on doors trying to locate her home.

Pooler

• A woman told Officers she’d dropped her cell phone on the floorboard of her Honda and when she bent over to pick it up, her car veered to the left, off the roadway, where it struck a parked car. She was unable to show proof of insurance, and when the Officer ran the license plate number through dispatch, it returned to a Honda Accord, not the Civic the woman was driving. She was cited for unlawful use of a license plate to conceal identity and no insurance.

• An Officer responded to a mobile home on Old Dean Forest Road. The woman there said her electric bill has gone up at least $100 in the past month. She traced the problem to an extension cord she found plugged in at the end of her trailer leading off into the woods behind her lot towards another lot. She suspects a neighbor’s been stealing her juice.

• A Brighton Woods woman complained to an Officer that she’s filed several complaints about a Freightliner tractor/trailer parked illegally on Brighton Woods Drive. The Officer knocked on several doors trying to locate the owner, but was unsuccessful, so he had Sapp’s come and tow the vehicle.

• A Savannah woman told Officers her Pontiac Grand Am became disabled on I-16 and she’d parked it on the side of the road. The vehicle is now missing, and none of the towing companies hauled it away.

Port Wentworth

• Just before 1am, an Officer found an Athens man staggering along the frontage road on Hwy 21 near I-95. He stopped the man and the man said he was making his way back to his motel room. The Officer then watched as the man passed by the motel and tried to go into a nearby convenience store. He then placed the man under arrest for public drunk.

• Around 2am, Officers saw two vehicles racing on Crossgate Road, clocking them at 68mph in the 45mph zone. Both the car and truck were stopped and both drivers were arrested for reckless driving, DUI, and possession of drug related objects.

• Officers responded to a local bar and grill on Sunday afternoon where waitresses had detained a 16 year old girl who’d been drinking alcohol. The Officers arrived and questioned the girl who became agitated and combative. She kicked one of the Officers in the chest and throat, and was placed under arrest and taken to the Regional Youth Detention Center.

• An Officer was dispatched to a local motel where four SCMPD patrol cars had been vandalized overnight with paint balls.

• An Officer was on his way back to Port Wentworth from the county jail on Hwy 80 near Chatham Parkway when he noticed a red Pontiac Grand Am in the lane beside him. The woman driving wasn’t wearing her seat belt and neither was the child in the passenger seat. He used his P.A. system to instruct the woman to put on her seat belt, but the woman ignored him. He then activated his lights and siren to make a traffic stop, but the woman continued on, now with a child in the back seat standing up in the seat and looking at the Officer. She finally pulled over in the elementary school parking lot. After she dropped her children off for school, she was arrested for driving while suspended.

• A contractor reported that two Kitchenaide oven/stove combos, each valued at $1500, had been stolen from a model home at a new neighborhood.

• And a Columbus, Ohio couple reported that their Ford pickup had a little over half a tank of gas when they went to sleep at the motel the night before. The tank was almost empty when they awoke, with the gas cap removed and broken.

Effingham County Sheriff’s Office

• An Eden man filed a report after he discovered his $500 generator had been stolen from in front of his shop.

• Deputies set up a safety checkpoint on McCall Road South around 5pm, and a Florida man came through in a black Chevy pickup. The Deputies smelled the odor of alcohol on the man’s breath and had him pull to the side of the road. He tested positive for alcohol, but refused the state test. He was taken to jail for DUI Refusal. (May as well sell that truck now! We’ll run it ‘til it sells for just $15!)

• A couple of hours later, a Guyton man came through the checkpoint and couldn’t produce a license for the Deputies. He was taken to jail when it was learned his license had been suspended.

• Deputies responded to a residence for a physical domestic dispute, and found a man had suffered several scratches on his neck, back, and around his mouth. His mother-in-law was arrested for battery. The woman then began breathing very heavy to hyper-ventilate herself. EMS was called to the scene, and they confirmed that the woman was fine and was only holding her breath to try and deceive them. She was transported to the hospital and given a mild sedative, then turned back over to the Deputy who turned her over to jailers.

• A Deputy clocked a Springfield man at 73mph in a 55mph zone of Hwy 119 and made a traffic stop. The man was arrested for driving while suspended.

• A woman came into the Sheriff’s Office and filed a complaint that her son had taken her minivan without her permission. Deputies stopped the minivan and arrested the son for possession of cocaine.

• A woman told Deputies she was on the Hwy 21 bypass and turned onto First Street Extension when she spotted, and was spotted by, a male inmate she knows. She said the inmate grabbed his crotch area, shaking himself at her as she drove by. (She wondered if he could be charged with assault with a dead weapon.)

• A Deputy stopped a Savannah man for speeding 62mph in a 45mph zone of Hwy 21 in Springfield. As the Deputy was waiting for the man to hand over his license and insurance, he smelled the odor of burnt marijuana coming from the man’s car. The man was placed under arrest when the Deputy located a baggie of pot in the driver’s side door.

• A Deputy was on patrol when he spotted a green Dodge Stratus with what he thought was an expired tag. He followed the car as the driver pulled into the parking lot of a hair salon. The Deputy ran the tag through dispatch, and it came back expired and no insurance. The driver meanwhile, had walked on into the salon where another Deputy was inside getting his hair cut. The man was arrested and charged with driving while suspended.

• A mother brought her daughter to the Sheriff’s Office and had a Deputy listen to a message left on her voice mail by two other young girls. The Deputy was able to make out that the girls were threatening the woman’s daughter about seeing some other girl’s boyfriend, and lots of other things he just couldn’t understand what they were saying. (Like, dude....)

• A Faulkville man told Deputies that someone had come onto his property during the night and knocked over and damaged a concrete water fountain valued around $350.

• A Deputy was northbound on Hwy 21 when he spotted a white southbound Oldsmobile at a high rate of speed. He activated his radar and clocked the car at 73mph in the 55mph zone. He turned around and made a traffic stop and the Savannah man was arrested for driving while suspended.

• Around 11pm, a Deputy clocked a black Chevy pickup at 72mph in a 55mph zone of Hwy 21 north. He made a traffic stop, and the Midway man was taken to jail for driving while suspended for failure to appear on a previous traffic citation.

• Just afte 1:30am, a Deputy spotted a black GMC Suburban crossing the fog line and then veering over the yellow lines on Goshen Road. He made a traffic stop after the driver turned onto Hwy 21. The man was arrested for DUI, and his female passenger was arrested on an open warrant.

• Just after 9am, a Deputy clocked a Meldrim man at 81mph in the 50mph zone of Sandhill Road. He asked the man for his license, and the man handed over his Georgia ID card just before he was taken to jail for driving while suspended.

• A Deputy clocked a woman in a gold Chevy at 80mph in a 55mph zone of Hwy 21 South and made a traffic stop. He noticed the woman’s bloodshot watery eyes and the odor of alcohol on her breath and asked the woman if she’d been drinking. “No I have’ve’ve not!” She then tested positive for alcohol and was arrested for DUI.

• At 3:20am, Officers responded to an apartment complex on Wheathill Road where a woman had reported a prowler. As the Officer pulled up, he could hear glass breaking near the 800 building. As he walked toward the building, he could hear more glass breaking in the rear of the building. As he rounded the corner, he saw a man looking at him, ready to run. “Don’t run, or you’ll just go to jail tired!” the Officer shouted. The man ran anyway, and was stopped after a brief foot chase. The man was bleeding profusely from his right arm, and claimed someone had attacked him at a Broughton Street bar in downtown Savannah earlier in the night. The woman in the apartment who’d called Police said the man was yelling for her to let him inside, and she refused. Further, his injuries and his blood on the broken glass of her living room window led to his trip to the jail for criminal trespass and obstruction by fleeing.

• Officers were dispatched to a Hwy 17 auto repair business where they found that all four tires had been stolen from a customer’s Ford Mustang. The thieves at least left the car sitting up on stands.

• Around 2am, Officers stopped a man on a bicycle on Wheathill Road for riding on city streets without a light. The man was searched, and the Officers found two knives and a mask in the man’s back pockets. He was arrested on a warrant out of Washington County. (I’m guessing he wasn’t playing the Lone Ranger and Tonto!)

• Around 8:30pm, an Officer was northbound on Hwy 21 and ran a check with dispatch on the license plate of a red Isuzu pickup beside him. Before dispatch got back with him, the truck turned onto a side street. Dispatch then advised him that the license plate had been reported stolen in Savannah. The Officer went back to the side street and found the truck parked in front of a bunch of mailboxes. He asked for the driver’s license, but of course, he didn’t have one. It had been suspended back in 1991. The man was taken to jail for theft by receiving stolen property and for driving while suspended.

• Around 1:30am, an Officer spotted a westbound Ford Taurus on Hwy 80 that was weaving over the fog line. He made a traffic stop, and the driver tried to convince him that he was just tired from working all day as a cook at a wedding reception at Tybee Island. He almost got away with it until the Officer ran a check on the man’s license through dispatch and learned his license has been suspended since December last year. The man was placed under arrest, and the Officer then found a baggie of marijuana inside the man’s pants pocket.

• Police and Fire Department officials responded to a residence for a brush fire. The homeowner said he was aware that a burn ban was in effect, but he didn’t think that applied to burning leaves!

• A man called Police and asked why they don’t write speeding tickets for people speeding up and down his street. He’d just learned that his dog had been run over in the street after someone let the dog out of his yard.