A round up of people wanted on felony charges ended in 21 arrests Tuesday, and more may be coming.
Bulloch County Sheriff Lynn Anderson said the United States Marshal’s Service assisted Bulloch County Sheriff’s deputies in a sweep throughout the county for offenders wanted on felony and other warrants. Some were arrested on misdemeanors after being found in violation when law enforcement officers were searching for the felony violators, he said.
“Sheriff’s offices in Georgia are charged by statute with enforcing orders of the courts, including the service of arrest warrants,” he said in a release issued Tuesday. “As part of that ongoing effort, BCSO deputies paired with task force agents from the U.S. Marshals Service Southeast Regional Fugitive Task Force …to serve multiple felony warrants throughout Bulloch County.”
The sweep began around 3 a.m., when “arrest teams
fanned out from Portal to Stilson and all points in between searching for persons wanted for felony probation violations, superior court bench warrants, and outstanding felony criminal warrants,” he said. “During the course of these efforts, many of the wanted persons or their associates were found to be in possession of drugs or committing other crimes and were charged accordingly.”
The Statesboro-Bulloch Crime Suppression Team will prosecute any additional crimes which resulted from the warrants sweep, he said. “To speed up the process of transporting the arrestees, jail deputies worked in roving transport vans to move the prisoners back to the jail from their arrest locations.”
Anderson said he appreciates the assistance from the U.S. Marshals’ Service.
“These joint sweeps will continue to be a part of
(our) efforts to aggressively pursue wanted persons. Serving active arrest warrants is the best way of ensuring that criminals are not free to commit other crimes in our community,” he said.
Those arrested Tuesday were:
· Dyquan Torrie Anderson, 19, Burkhalter Road – criminal street gang activity.
· Shanice Olivia Bacon, 21, Hutcheson Street, Reidsville – marijuana purchase, possession, sale or manufacture, possession of drug related objects.
· Samantha Burdett, 24, Beasley Road – felony probation violation.
· Miranda Ann Burnsed, 28, Violet Drive, Ellabell – probation violation.
· Nicholas Jordan Carroll, 23, Broomstraw Trace, Ellabell – probation violation.
· Curtis Maurice Collins, 24, Rountree Street – probation violation.
· Joseph Bernard Collins, 25, Buck Creek Road – cocaine possession, felony probation violation.
· Bradley Dellums Cone, 20, Church Street – parole violation, marijuana possession, possession of drug related objects, probation violation.
· Keyrra Shavon Crawford, 21, South Main Street - marijuana purchase, possession, sale or manufacture, possession of drug related objects.
· Patricia Ellison, 46, Kent Street – suspended license.
· Meagan Yvonne Hedden, 26, Chandler Road – marijuana possession.
· Robert Leon Kilcrease, 47, Lockett Drive, Register – felony probation violation, misdemeanor probation violation.
· Xzavier Juwan Lanier, 23, McKinnon Street – felony probation violation (two counts).
· Marvin Jerome Parrish, 30, Lanier Drive – parole violation.
· Jesse Michael Riner, 25, Chandler Road – marijuana possession.
· Ricky Earl Sanders, 30, Aden Lanier Road – felony probation violation.
· Robyn Collette Thomas, 24, Kent Street – obstruction.
· Jermaine Torrence, 38, Larry Smith Trailer Park, Portal – felony probation violation, misdemeanor probation violation.
· Chalentis Octavius Wilson, 18, Kent Street – felony probation violation.
· Chauncey Tykeir Wilson, 21, Kent Street – probation violation.
· Crystal Lee Woodcock, 29, Beaver Creek Drive – felony probation violation.