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Hinesville Police blotter for Nov. 16
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Found property
W. Oglethorpe Highway
Nov. 8

An officer spoke with the complainant at the police station about found property. The complainant said she works at the McDonald’s at Walmart and saw a black woman leave the dining area. The complainant later found a black folder she believed belonged to the woman. It contained birth certificates and Social Security cards. The complainant said she waited to see if the lady would return but she failed to do so, so she contacted police. Attempts by authorities to contact the woman failed. The property was entered into the evidence/property room for safekeeping.

Loitering on school grounds
Carrying a concealed weapon
Carrying a weapon on school grounds
Pafford Street
Nov. 7

An administrator at Bradwell Institute told an officer about a suspicious person on school grounds. The complainant reported overhearing several students ask why the person was still on campus. She then approached the subject and asked why he was there. He said he was about to leave after having just finished lunch with his “bitch.” The administrator escorted the subject to the front office and requested an officer’s assistance. When the officer arrived, he recognized the subject from an incident earlier in the year. The officer asked the subject why he was on campus and he stated he was there with his girlfriend’s mother. The officer then asked about the identity of the subject’s girlfriend. He stated her first name but couldn’t recall her last name. He was also unable to tell the officer the name of the girlfriend’s mother. The officer then asked where the person was who gave him a ride to the school. The subject said, “She left” and noted his “homeboy” was supposed to pick him up. The officer then asked him if he signed in with the front office and he said no. He stated he did not know he had to sign in. He also said he walked past the officer because someone he knew was calling him. The subject was arrested and charged with loitering on school grounds. While searching the subject, the officer found a knife in a pocket on his shorts that were being worn under his pants. He was also charged with carrying a concealed weapon and carrying a weapon on school grounds.

Stalking
Second Street
Nov. 4

An officer was dispatched to Second Street in reference to stalking.
The officer spoke with the complainant who reported being continually video recorded by his neighbor. The complainant said this is not the first incident and had filed reports in the past. He said the suspect would either come out to the street or record the complainant from his own property. He also said the suspect will record his wife or people coming into the house. The complainant said he had family over on Nov. 4 and as they were leaving, the suspect was recording their activities. He said he is in fear of what the suspect might do since he is also recording his wife and any children in the area. The complainant said this is not the first time the suspect has recorded them and other people in the neighborhood and has also been seen recording children. The complainant said this action is intimidating and believes he is being harassed.

Simple battery
Fairfax Court
Nov. 2

An officer was dispatched to Fairfax Court in reference to an assault.
The officer spoke with the complainant who said she was out with a male friend and received numerous phone calls from her boyfriend. The complainant stated her boyfriend wanted to know her every whereabouts but she just hung up the phone and did not answer him. The complainant said she and her friend went to the Walmart shopping center, and when she came out of the store she saw her boyfriend in a vehicle with his friends. The complainant said her boyfriend grabbed her right hand, bent her index, middle and ring fingers back and then attempted to choke her and slapped her in the face because she was out with another guy. The complainant said her friend had gotten scared and locked his doors to his vehicle and left her with her boyfriend in the parking lot. Her boyfriend took her to her residence where she was dropped off.

Theft by shoplifting
E. General Screven way
Nov. 1

An officer was dispatched to the above location in reference to theft by shoplifting. The complainant reported two black men entered the store and one of them asked the complainant for a cigar. The store clerk stated he asked the suspect for his ID and the suspect put a dollar on the counter, took the cigar and ran from the store. He said the other suspect stole a lighter and also ran from the store. The complainant said one of the men was wearing a black shirt and blue jeans, and they headed towards Bradwell Institute when they left the store. The complainant said he has the incident on tape but couldn’t release it at that time.
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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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