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Liberty County Sheriff's Department blotter for Oct. 5
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Disorderly conduct
Shaw Road, Walthourville
Sept. 18, 2007

 A student apparently won’t be getting an A in conduct this semester. A school bus driver reported the student used obscene and vulgar language in front of children under age 14 when told to move to the front of the bus. A review of the bus security tape showed the student said words using the letters M and F more than 10 times when referring to the driver.
 
Disorderly conduct
W. Oglethorpe Highway, Walthourville
Sept. 15, 2007

Two store employees — at least one a cashier — said they were talking about their work schedules when a customer told them to quit talking and serve him. The problem was the two workers and several other witnesses gave one account of the incident and the man gave another. The complainant said the offender called her and police hillbillies and basically bad-mouthed her makeup. The offender contends that was just not the case and was released. Warrant procedures were explained to the complainant.
 
Drug possession
Drug paraphernalia
Westfield Road
Sept. 19

A deputy spotted a vehicle veer into oncoming traffic and conducted a traffic stop. After a second deputy arrived on the scene and detected the odor of marijuana, the driver acknowledged drugs were in the vehicle. The driver and the passenger then consented to a search. Marijuana and a crack pipe were found. Both were arrested. The driver was charged with possession of marijuana and a drug-related object and the passenger was charged with having a drug-related object. The drug task force was notified and the vehicle was towed.
 
Theft by taking
Criminal damage
Criminal trespass
Luke Road, Midway
Sept. 23, 2007

Someone continues to damage and steal heavy equipment at a construction site in Midway, according to a man who is trying to clear a lot. The complainant reported four wheelers and trucks enter the property and the suspects have caused extensive damage to his equipment, costing him an excessive amount of money to repair and/or replace it. At that time, a John Deere grader, valued at $150,000 was missing. A detective was notified and the case was being investigation. The grader was later recovered.
 
Public drunk
Lakeside Way, Midway
Sept. 22, 2007

A woman was arrested after she repeatedly demanded pills from her husband and 80-year-old mother, and eventually snatched them off the back of the deputy’s patrol car. The woman’s husband said she had picked up 90 pills earlier in the day and had less than 40 left. The woman said her son had taken the pills from her when he picked up her prescription. The deputy also reported the woman reeked of alcohol, had difficulty walking and was yelling at her husband.
 
Accident
Highway 84
Sept. 14, 2007

Several people reported seeing a man laying next to a curb on Highway 84. Apparently, he had been riding a bike, fell and landed on his face on the cement. He suffered injury to his mouth and was taken by EMS to the hospital. The deputy noted he smelled alcohol emitting from the man. The victim’s mother said he had a history of seizures.

Drug possession
Ga. 38 at Highway 196 east
Sept. 19, 2007

A deputy spotted a vehicle weaving in the road and pulled it over. When he approached the car, the deputy thought he smelled marijuana. He asked the driver if he had been smoking marijuana or had been around it. The man said he’d been at his sister’s house and people there had been smoking. The deputy then asked for consent to search the vehicle and both men gave permission. Although no marijuana was reportedly found, three straws - two on the driver’s side and one on the passenger’s - were found that contained a white, powdery substance believed to be cocaine. A folded one-dollar bill containing the same substance was also found on the driver, who had by that time claimed ownership of the straws. The drug task force was notified and the driver was arrested. His sister retrieved his vehicle.
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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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