A new joint unit with Bulloch County sheriff’s deputies and Statesboro police officers was formed Tuesday, and it didn’t take long to make its presence known.The Statesboro-Bulloch Crime Suppression Team formed after Sheriff Lynn Anderson and Public Safety Director Wendell Turner signed a memorandum of understanding. The team is a consolidation of the sheriff’s Drug Suppression Team, the Sheriff’s Targeted Enforcement Patrol and the Police Department’s Crime Suppression Unit. Fully staffed, the Crime Suppression Team consists of five sheriff’s investigators; three sheriff’s deputies, including a K-9; and four police officers.The new unit “exists to put unceasing pressure on criminals of all types who prey on the innocent citizens of Statesboro-Bulloch County,” according to a Crime Suppression Team news release issued Wednesday.By its second day of operation, the unit already had conducted three investigations that resulted in nine arrests.The highest-profile of these incidents started when investigators tried to purchase marijuana at The Avenue at Southern on Georgia Avenue late Tuesday afternoon.