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Police Report - January 19
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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    
    James Robert Pullam, 19, Olliff Hill Road — driving with a suspended license, seat belt violation.
    Moreo Cortez Howell, 23, Stadium View Apartments — reckless conduct.
    Cornelius L. Grant, 30, Simons Road — giving false information to law enforcement.
    James Frederick Smith, 59, Burkhalter Road — battery, public intoxication, disorderly conduct.
    Sheila Ann Miller, 35, Ga. 25, Millen — battery (family violence), third degree cruelty to children.
    Edgar Lee Miller, 39, Martin Luther King Drive, Millen —  battery (family violence), third degree cruelty to children.
    Gregory Brown, 33, South Main Street — simple battery, obstruction, disorderly conduct, reckless conduct, third degree cruelty to children.
    William Bennett Haines, 19, Buckston Court — defective equipment, marijuana possession.
    Shaneky Celette Hobbs, 25, Mikell Street — driving with a suspended or revoked license.
    Wayne E. Hand, 48, Sid Sanders Road — DUI, driving while declared a habitual violator, headlights violation.
    Nicole Theresa Young, 23, Stadium View Apartments — obstruction, reckless conduct.
    Gary Randy Driggers III, 24, Ridgewood Drive — driving with a suspended or revoked license.        
    
Bulloch Sheriff's Arrests   
    Tab Wallis Wells, 44, Willow Lane — child abandonment.
    
Georgia State Patrol Arrests
    Troopers issued 16 citations Wednesday for traffic violations.
    
Georgia Southern University Arrests
  Allen Sheffield Roper, 18,  Eagle Village — underage possession/consumption of alcohol.
   
Statesboro Police Incidents   
    VISTA VIEW APARTMENTS — Police responding to a reported fight saw a man on top of another man. Witnesses said the offender struck the victim and slammed him on the ground. The offender was arrested and the victim taken to the hospital for abrasions.
    COTTON RIDGE MEDICAL CENTER — A man and woman were    arrested for fighting in front of their grandchild. They struck each other, and were charged with battery as well as third degree cruelty to children.
    SOUTH MAIN STREET — A woman said she picked up her husband at work, and he struck her in the head. Later he struck her again and injured her lip, and the abuse took place with children present.
    BERMUDA RUN APARTMENTS — A woman said she took a restraining order out on a man, but he sent her a letter anyway, violating the order.
    TILE CENTER — Someone broke in and took $7 in change.
    HARVEY DRIVE — A man said his ex-girlfriend called him three times to say she hated him and he was going to die. She also came to his home to threaten him.
    LAFAYETTE STREET — A man said he allowed his cousin to stay with him, but he had been acting violently over the past few days and struck the complainant twice.
    CAMPUS CLUB APARTMENTS — A man said he heard noises and went to check them out, only to discover his X-Box 360 and two wireless controllers were missing.
    BROAD STREET — A woman said someone threw or hit a golf ball through her window.
    GROOVER HOMES — A woman said her boyfriend pushed her down on the kitchen floor during an argument about his ex-girlfriend.
    SALLIE ZETTEROWER ELEMENTARY SCHOOL — A member of the school's support personnel arrived at the school to find an open door. When she went inside, she said she saw several dogs and cats run from a classroom.
        
Bulloch Sheriff's Incidents   
    COLFAX STATION DRIVE — (Statesboro) A woman said she received a threatening message on her answering machine from a woman she believes is one she fired previously. The caller said she knew where the victim lives, and she would " get her as soon as she sees her," reports stated. The caller also said she "didn't know if (the victim) had kids but she would find out."
    LINDSAY COURT — (Statesboro) A man said he argued with his girlfriend and she wanted to enter his room, but he would not let her in. She held the door open so he could not close it, but he managed to do so, so she kicked the door in.
    SAM TILLMAN ROAD — (Register) A woman said a Pike Road man forged several checks and passed them in various locations. She said he sends her text messages and calls her all the time, and she suspects he took her dog and "messes with her screens" at her home. The man is her husband, but they are divorcing, she said.
    OAKFIELD SUBDIVSION — (Statesboro)    A woman said a neighbor, holding a stick, approached one of her dogs that wandered onto the neighbor's property. The neighbor pointed the stick at her, she said.
    DOE LANE — (Brooklet) A woman told deputies her boyfriend came from North Carolina and became angry when she told him she did not wish to continue the relationship. They argued over custody of children and he bent her finger backward and caused an abrasion on her hand.
    CEDARWOOD ACRES MOBILE HOME PARK — (Register) Deputies responding to a reported family violence incident found a woman with visible scratches and bruising. The man deputies arrested in the incident committed the acts of violence in front of a two-year-old, reports stated.
    
Georgia State Patrol Incidents   
    Troopers issued 34 warnings, assisted one motorist, and investigated four accidents with five reported injuries Wednesday.
    
Georgia Southern University Incidents
    Officers issued three traffic warnings, investigated one traffic accident, assisted seven motorists and responded to one fire alarm Wednesday.
    
911  Law Enforcement Reports
    Central 911 operators dispatched the following calls Wednesday:
    Bulloch County Sheriff's Department - nine calls.
    Statesboro Police Department — 13 calls.
    Georgia State Patrol Post 45 — two calls.
     Candler County Sheriff's Department — five calls.
    Evans County Sheriff's Department — two calls.
    
911 Fire Department Reports
    Central 911 operators dispatched the following calls Wednesday:
    Statesboro Fire Department — three calls.
    Bulloch County Volunteer firefighters — one call.
         
911 EMS Reports
    Central 911 operators dispatched the following calls Wednesday:
    Bulloch County EMS — one accident call, one rescue call and eight medical calls.   
    Candler County EMS — three  medical calls.  
    Evans County EMS — four medical calls.    
    Central 911 operators also routed  two calls to Screven county 911.
    
— Compiled by Holli Deal Bragg
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