When Saundra Rhodes retired in May as chief of the Horry County Police Department in South Carolina, news reports in the Myrtle Beach area noted that the South Carolina Law Enforcement Division was investigating the handling of sexual assault cases by certain officers in her department, which is named as a defendant in two related lawsuits. So when Statesboro city officials identified Rhodes last week as one of three finalists for chief of the Statesboro Police Department, some Statesboro Herald readers quickly made the connection. Statesboro officials also got calls from Myrtle Beach reporters.