Seventeen burglary and theft cases were solved last week when Bulloch County Sheriff's Office investigators arrested a convicted sex offender, authorities said. Jamie Lamont Smith, 40, of Sinkhole Road, convicted of statutory rape in 1997, is now behind bars in the Bulloch County Jail on nine counts of first-degree burglary, two counts each of felony theft by taking and criminal attempt at burglary and one count of second-degree burglary, Bulloch County Sheriff Lynn Anderson said in a news release issued Friday. "Over the past month, local builders and mobile home dealerships reported multiple burglaries in which furniture and appliances were stolen," he said.
Arrest clears 17 Bulloch County burglary, theft cases


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