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Police Report - February 21
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Note: All information included in this report is taken from law enforcement incident reports and arrest records, which are public records and available for review at any and all local law enforcement agencies. Not every arrest leads to a conviction. Guilt or innocence is determined by the court system.
    
Statesboro Police Arrests    
    Charlie James Lakes Jr. 43, Kent Road, Millen — criminal trespass (family violence).
    Taylor Luke Robinson, 19, Westover Lane, Kennesaw — marijuana possession of drug related objects.
    Cindy Finch Kennedy, 46, Old River Road, Garfield — theft by shoplifting.
    Maurice Van Middleton, 34, West Inman Street — public intoxication, disorderly conduct.
    Wayne Edward Costen, 20, Mountberry Drive — speeding, DUI.
    Willie Edward Roberts, 40, U.S. 80 East — defective equipment, driving with a suspended license.
    Justin Stanley Pierce, 22, Statesboro Place Circle — DUI.
    Kacy Lynn Googe, 17, Jill Street, Metter — underage possession of alcohol.
    Lenard Jock Kee Raymond, 19, T. Perkins Road — felony theft by deception, first degree forgery.
        
Bulloch Sheriff's Arrests   
    No arrests filed.
    
Georgia State Patrol Arrests
     Information unavailable.
    
Georgia Southern University Arrests
       Officers issued two citations for traffic offenses Monday.
    
Statesboro Police Incidents   
    VETERAN'S MEMORIAL PARKWAY/BRAMPTON AVENUE — A witness who saw a hit and run accident followed the offender, called police, and stayed at the location until police arrived and charged the driver who fled the scene.
    PARK PLACE APARTMENTS — A ma reported the theft of a black 2006 Yamaha motorcycle.
    WILLINGWAY — A man was found with marijuana, rolling papers and a glass smoking pipe.
    GM AUTO BROKERS/U.S. 80 EAST — A T. Perkins Road man told police a known suspect stole his checks and forged one to purchase a vehicle.
    WAL-MART — A woman was charged with shoplifting $26 worth of clothing, consumables and other items.
    EAST GRADY/DONALDSON STREETS — A woman said a known offender took two Social Security cards.
            
Bulloch Sheriff's Incidents   
    COUNTRY CLUB ROAD — (Statesboro) A deputy observed a car stopped  in the middle of the road, the take off erratically until it entered a business, running over landscaping and coming to a stop. As he approached, a "very small juvenile" exited the driver's seat. A grown woman was in  the back seat, and told the deputies she felt ill and allowed the juvenile to drive. But the nine-year-old told the deputy the woman "got scared and pulled him into the driver's seat while she jumped in the back seat." The woman was arrested on a wide variety of charges including child restraint violations, failure to maintain lane, driving with a suspended license, reckless driving, allowing an unauthorized minor to drive, and obstruction.
    EAST GEORGIA REGIONAL MEDICAL CENTER — (Statesboro) An inmate being treated at the hospital was unruly, refused to lie down and be checked out, and spat into a deputy's face before being restrained.
    U.S. 301 SOUTH — (Statesboro) A deputy stopped a woman speeding and driving erratically. He smelled the odor of alcohol, and the woman had candy as well as pennies in her mouth, which he made her spit out. The woman refused to remove hands from her pockets and resisted as she was hand cuffed. Deputies found two empty wine bottles and a half-full wine bottle in her glove compartment and she was found to be intoxicated.
    SWALLOWTAIL DRIVE — (Statesboro) A man told deputies someone stole a green Fisher Price electric Power Wheel four wheeler from his home.
    GA. 67 — (Brooklet) A woman found a loaded .380 caliber pistol and a magazine with two bullets in her yard, and turned them over to deputies.
    SHADOW LANE  — (Statesboro) A man told deputies someone was t trying to kill  him. He rides his bike on a trail between two roads which he has permission to use. Someone strung a thin piece of  wire across the trail, connecting two  trees, and the complainant ran into the wire with his neck as he rode his bike.
    
Georgia State Patrol Incidents   
    Information unavailable.
    
Georgia Southern University Incidents
     FOREST DRIVE BUILDING — Someone reported minor damage  stemming from an electrical fire in an exhaust  fan in a men’s bathroom.
   Officers issued two traffic warnings,  investigated one traffic accident, assisted three motorists and  responded to three fire alarms Monday.
    
911  Law Enforcement Reports
    Central 911 operators dispatched the following calls Monday:
    Bulloch County Sheriff's Department - six calls.
    Statesboro Police Department — 17 calls.
    Georgia State Patrol Post 45 — two calls.
    Candler County Sheriff's Department — eight calls.
    Evans County Sheriff's Department — one call.
    
911 Fire Department Reports
    Central 911 operators dispatched the following calls Monday:
    Statesboro Fire Department — two calls.
    Bulloch County Volunteer firefighters — four calls.
    Metter Fire Department — one call.
    Claxton Fire Department — one call.
        
911 EMS Reports
    Central 911 operators dispatched the following calls Monday:
    Bulloch County EMS — one accident call, one rescue call and 15 medical calls.   
    Candler County EMS — one accident call, one  medical call.  
    Evans County EMS — one accident call, two medical calls.    
    Central 911 operators also routed one call to Chatham County 911, one call to Effingham County 911 and two calls to Bryan County 911.
    
— Compiled by Holli Deal Bragg
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