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Liberty County Sheriff's blotter for Nov. 28
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Nov. 8, 2007
Hit and run
Disorderly conduct
5879 W. Oglethorpe Hwy.
Hinesville

A store clerk at Clyde’s market filed a complaint when a man kept making rude gestures with his hand and tongue at her. She said the man then entered the store and continued to make the same gestures. When she told him to leave, he yelled out expletives at her and proceeded to grab a beer bottle. When she again asked him to put the beer bottle down and leave the store, he continued yelling out expletives. A friend of the man’s then entered the store and took the offender outside to their car. The store clerk went outside to get the car tag while calling central dispatch on the phone. While she was on the phone, the man backed his car into the store clerk’s vehicle and sped off. She only obtained a partial tag number (WPD) but described the car as a dark green/blue SUV possible a Ford Expedition.

Nov. 8, 2007
Theft by shoplifting
1457 A Dunlevie Road
Allenhurst

Deputies responded to a report of shoplifting and spoke with the store clerk who said a man had taken several objects out of a cooler and he was still in the store. Police approached the man and questioned him but he denied having taken any items and said he was only in the store to buy cigarettes. He also stated he went to use the bathroom a few times. Police checked the bathroom and found the items in the trashcan. The man then again denied taking them. He was released pending review of the store’s videotape. The manager arrived at the store a few hours later and called the deputies back to review the tapes. The tape clearly showed the man removing items from the cooler and taking them to the bathroom. The store manager was advised on warrant procedures.

Nov. 8, 2007
Possession of cocaine (charge pending)
Highway 119, Riceboro

A deputy saw a pickup truck weaving in the roadway, and initiated a traffic stop and detected the odor of an alcoholic beverage coming from inside of the vehicle. The driver was asked whether he had any weapons, open containers or narcotics in the car and he said no. He then gave officers consent to search the vehicle and a small plastic bag that contained white residue, along with a smoking device that also had white residue, were found. The deputy also found Brillo pads that are commonly used as filters in crack pipes. The evidence was gathered and sent to the GBI labs for testing. The driver and passenger of the vehicle were released pending test results.


Nov. 9, 2007
Simple battery
295, lot 9 Arnold Drive
Walthourville

A woman reported her boyfriend scratched her in the face after an altercation about money. She said she picked him up from work and drove him home where he was supposed to get her some money. She waited five minutes and then went to the front door of the house and found it locked. She knocked on the door and eventually he opened it and let her in. She said he was very upset and they began to argue. That led to struggle in which her face was scratched. The boyfriend told authorities he and the complainant were supposed to go out of town together. He said when the complainant picked him up at work, he was not ready to go and she got angry because she had to wait. He said when he got home she waited in the car and later came to the front door and found it locked. He said this made her more upset thinking he was hiding another woman in the house. She began searching the house and was upset at him. He said she attacked him and when he tried to hold her back, she was accidentally scratched. Warrant procedures were explained.


Nov. 10, 2007
DUI/possession of marijuana
Disorderly conduct
Highway 196 west at Joyner Road, Hinesville

A deputy saw a car pull out in front of him heading westbound on Highway 196. On two occasions, the vehicle nearly hit the curb so the deputy stopped the car and went to speak with the driver. That’s when he noticed a strong odor of alcohol and asked the driver to step out of the car. The driver had bloodshot eyes and slurred speech and tested positive for alcohol on the alco-sensor. While speaking with the passenger, the deputy noticed the driver kept putting his hands in his pocket. He told the driver to keep his hand out of his pockets but the driver failed to comply. When the deputy went to handcuff the driver he resisted. Once apprehended, the officer saw a small bag containing what appeared to be marijuana on the ground by the car. A unit from Hinesville Police Department was dispatched to assist the deputy and the driver was read the implied consent for over 21.

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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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