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Hinesville Police Department blotter for Sept. 30
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Simple battery
S. Main Street, Sept. 22

An officer was dispatched to E.G. Miles Parkway in reference to a simply battery.
When the officer arrived, he spoke with the complainant who said she had been in an argument with her husband and he punched her in the side of the head. When the officer observed her head, he noticed a large lump where she said she had been hit. The officer asked her where her husband was and she said he was at their residence, along with her two children. The officer asked her if he had been drinking and she said they both had. She wanted an escort to her home so she could get her children and return to the hospital. She also wanted to press charges against her husband for hitting her. Two officers took the complainant home from the emergency room, and spoke with the offender. The woman’s husband said there had been an argument, he lost his temper and punched the complainant in the head. The officer asked him if she had struck him and he said no.
A witness told the officers the complainant started the argument and, as it went on, the husband dropped a laundry basket on her head. She then attempted to kick him but did not make contact. The verbal argument then went on for a few more minutes and the offender grabbed the complainant by the hair and hit her in the head two times with his right hand. One of the officers transported the complainant and her children back to the emergency room and the other officer placed the husband under arrest for simple battery. He was transported to the police station and then the county jail. During transport, the husband told an officer his wife had kicked him when she thought he was throwing a laundry basket at her.

Failure to stop for an accident
Taylor Road, Sept. 22

While patrolling Taylor Road, an officer noticed a vehicle in the grass.
Upon further investigation, the officer noticed the two front tires were flat and there was a crack in the front passenger side of the bumper. There was also a scuffmark over the crack and an impact mark on the tree two inches in front of the car. The doors were both locked and there did not seem to be any personal items left in the vehicle. The officer was not able to obtain any information about the driver and there was no driver present. The vehicle was towed.

Lost or stolen property
E. Oglethorpe Highway,
Sept. 23

An officer was dispatched to Dairy Queen in reference to a lost or stolen diaper bag. When the officer arrived, he spoke with the complainant who said she had placed her blue Eddie Bauer diaper bag on the back of her car in the parking lot of Dairy Queen and drove to Wal-Mart. She realized she had left the bag on the trunk and went back to the Dairy Queen but was unable to find the bag. She said the bag contained various baby items as well as her driver’s license, military ID card, Social Security card, her two children’s Social Security cards, her wallet with $76, two credit/debit cards and her checkbook.

Terroristic threats
Arlington Drive, Sept. 23

An officer was dispatched to Arlington Drive in reference to terroristic threats made via the Internet. The officer spoke with the complainant who stated she and her granddaughter had received more threats over the Internet. The two complainants provided the officer with 16 copies of the email messages they received. The messages were dated from Sept. 21-23. Several of the messages included threats against the complainants in the statements of “I will kill you myself” or “I might have someone else kill you.” There were also references to doing damage to the complainants’ residence. All of the messages appeared to have come from the suspect except for one, which appeared to have come from the mother of the suspect. The originating address of the first 15 messages came from one myspace.com address, while the last message originated from another myspace.com address.

Found property - gun
S. Main Ext., Sept. 25

An officer was dispatched to the police station to speak with a complainant who found a gun. The complainant said he was working and noticed a two-shot Derringer (.22 caliber) in the ditch on South Main Extension in the area of Country Side trailer park. The weapon was checked through GCIC/NCIC but no record was found. The weapon and cartridge were placed in the evidence locker.
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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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