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Hinesville Police blotter for July 2
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June 20
Simple battery/ Criminal trespass
720 E. Oglethorpe Highway

Police were called to respond to a fight at Western Sizzlin’ restaurant. Two men told police they were in the eatery’s buffet line with their sister when an employee bumped into the sister. The men said that after a verbal altercation with the sister, one man stepped in and began to argue with the employee. The men said the employee attempted to hit the man and the two started wrestling in the dining room. Witnesses said the employee was struck first and did not begin the physical altercation.

June 23
Terroristic threats or intimidation/suspicious acts
208 N. Main St.

Two juveniles told police they saw a man picking on an unidentified child. The child reportedly became upset and called his father, who came to the scene. The man and the child’s father argued. The child’s father went to his vehicle and came back with a gun. After another verbal dispute, the two men separated.

June 25
Possession of cocaine
Paul Caswell Boulevard

A Hinesville man reported his wife’s involvement with drugs to Hinesville police. Upon investigation, police found small bags of a substance that tested positive for cocaine in a pre-natal vitamins bottle in the woman’s bedroom. Officers then went to Buffalo’s to contact the suspect, who works at the restaurant. The man also provided a video of his wife talking to someone on her cell phone about obtaining drugs.

Burglary/Forced entry of residence
Lyndsi Lane

A Lyndsi Lane man arrived at his home in the afternoon to find a bedroom window broken and several possessions missing. Once police arrived, fingerprints were lifted from the scene and photographs were taken. One neighbor reported seeing two black juveniles attempting to open the front door. Another neighbor reported that the two juveniles were asking to mow yards in the neighborhood.

Death investigation
Garden Circle

A Garden Circle man reported a suicide attempt to police. Officers found the man’s roommate on the floor of his bedroom with a gunshot wound to the head. The man said his roommate and his roommate’s wife had gone out for drinks and argued when they returned home.
The man who reported the suicide attempt said he went to bed after his roommate’s wife left the house. The man said a fourth resident in the house later woke him and told him her firearm was missing from its case. The man then went to speak with his roommate and found him on the floor with the gunshot wound.

Simple battery/disorderly conduct/obstruction of an officer
Pineland Avenue

Hinesville police were called to a residence on Pineland Avenue in reference to abuse. The victim told police that she and another female walked into the home and her mother struck the victim in the face with a closed fist and knocked her down on the couch. The mother then reportedly jumped on the victim and choked her with her hands.
The other female was able to pull the mother off the victim and the two tried to run out of the home. The victim said her mother grabbed her again and began to choke her and beat her in the head. After biting the mother’s finger, the victim said she fled.
Police arrived and found the mother hiding in her bedroom closet.  The mother was handcuffed, but as officers took her to the squad car, she tried to run away. Police chased and caught her. The woman resisted arrest and began shouting profanities. Authorities forcefully apprehended the woman.

June 27
Simple battery FVA/ Cruelty toward children in the third degree/ Criminal trespass
Pointe South Drive

A Pointe South Drive woman told police her husband was drinking and they got into an argument. The woman said her husband poked his finger in her eye and left a mark, threw a bottle of vodka into the wall, smashed two photographs and overturned a fish tank during the argument. Their two children, ages 14 and 15, were in the next room. The woman called the police and waited outside for them to arrive.
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HPD Reports
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From Hinesville Police Department reports. Editor’s note: Due to computer issues at the city, reports have been unavailable in recent weeks. They are back. Our thanks to the HPD clerks who provide them. We’re catching up as quickly as possible.

Burglary, etc: A man called 911 on Feb. 27 because he was watching his White Circle home getting burglarized. The man said his alarm system had an app that showed live video on his phone, and he was “viewing three males inside his residence,” as he talked to 911.
Police responded, caught two of them inside the house and found the third guy “hiding behind a tree,” the report said.
Detectives are investigating.

Public indecency: An officer was sent to Lowes around 4:30 p.m. March 12 in reference to a disturbance involving a man and a woman.
The woman, a Lowe’s employee, said she had just got back from her lunch break when she saw the man “looking around at items on a shelf.”
The woman said she asked him if he needed help finding anything and he held up something, then said “I have found everything I need,” the report said. “(he) then placed his arms around (the employee) to hug her and then kissed (her) neck. (She) then moved away from (him) and told him to have a nice day and attempted to walk away from (the man). (He) then began to follow (her), stating ‘I would lick you up and down’ and ‘you better hide in an office.’ (She) then spoke with manager and called 911.’”
The man told police he thought he recognized the woman “and stated to me that he had previously had a relationship with her approximately two years ago. (He) was unable to recall (her) name while on scene.”
The woman told police “she has never seen, nor spoken to (the man) before today.”
The woman was given a case number and told what to do. The man was allowed to leave.

Indecent exposure: A Berkshire Terrace man reported he went outside his house around 6:40 a.m. and “observed a man who appeared to be intoxicated, peeing on his truck and trailer.”
The complainant said the man “fully exposed his penis while he was peeing. When (complainant) asked him to stop the man told him to ‘shut the (bleep) up.’ (Complainant) advised the man he would call police. (Complainant) advised his young son was standing outside during the incident. He said the man got into a 1996 black Buick and drove away, almost hitting cars that were parked in the driveway.”
The complainant said he did not want to press charges, “he said he wanted to report the incident because the man did not stop peeing when he asked him too.”
The complainant said he’d seen the man before “come and go” from a nearby apartment. The officer met with the resident of that apartment, who said the man was a cousin and did not pee on the complainant’s trailer.

Identity theft: A man went to HPD on March 21 to report that when he went to get a driver’s history for a commercial driver’s license, he found several citations on the history that weren’t his. “(He) stated he noticed someone was issued four citations in Arkansas and one citation in Jacksonville, Florida,” and during the time the Arkansas tickets were written he was in locked up in Georgia.
“(He) advised that he was not incarcerated when the citation in Jacksonville, Florida was issued but he was not in Florida at the time. (He) was unable to leave the state of Georgia due to being on felony probation.”
It gets worse.
“(He) told me that he attempted to file his income taxes for the first time ever and he was rejected due to owing the IRS money, $20,000. (He) stated he spoke to a representative for the IRS and he was informed that taxes were filed in his name in 2014 and the return was $1,3000. (He) advised he did not file taxes in 2013 and he was still incarcerated at the time.”
The man then told the officer he thinks his brother “got the citations and filed income taxes using his information. (He) believed his brother obtained his Social Security number and other demographics when he was incarcerated.”
The man said he talked to his brother, who said he paid all the tickets. “(His) brother also told him on a different occasion that he knew his date of birth and (SSN). (He) advised he told his brother that it was not OK to use his name due to him getting his life together and attempting to drive commercial vehicles.”
The guy said he didn’t have his brother’s address. He chose to fill out an identity theft packet.

Simple battery, theft by taking: An officer was sent around 2 a.m. March 20 to the Baymont Inn regarding a disturbance. There, a woman said she was being “grabbed and pulled” by a man when she told him to leave her motel room. She said they began arguing when he accused her of stealing $100.
The man claimed he met the woman on a dating website and when they “started having sex she informed him that it would cost $100.” He told her he wasn’t going to pay her, “got dressed and realized the five $20s in his pants pocket were missing. He accused (her) of stealing his money.”
The officer asked the woman if she stole the man’s money and she replied, “No, I work hard for my money.”
Both were given a case number and told how to get a warrant.

Robbery: A woman called HPD March 15 to report she was home when her estranged husband came to her apartment “and asked her to come outside to talk to him,” a report said.
“She stated that she stepped outside thinking that he was going to be civil, though she recently filed for divorce from him. As she stepped outside, he grabbed her necklace off her neck and then ran down the stairwell and out to the parking lot.”
The woman said he stood by his vehicle a minute, then drove off as police arrived. Officers checked the area but had no luck finding the man.

Burglary: Police were sent to a Malibu Drive address on March 13 regarding missing firearms and ransacked rooms. The homeowners were at work and got home to find handguns and rifles missing, as well as video games.
It appeared the home may have been broken into through the attic. Police found footprints and other evidence, and the case is under investigation.

Recovered stolen trailer: A U-Haul employee was inventorying equipment on March 14 when she discovered a trailer that had been reported stolen in Florida on Dec. 26. “She stated someone had backed the trailer into a parking stall along with the other trailers sometime during the night.”

Theft: In February, the maintenance man at Cypress Bend Mobile Home Park reported that “22 air conditioning unit disconnect boxes were stolen from various lots… He stated he began receiving calls from people that their air conditioning units were not working.”
The boxes contain small pieces of copper. He didn’t know who swiped them, but valued the total at about $341.

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