From incident reports at the Effingham County Sheriff’s Office:
Oct. 2: A resident of Roebling Road in the Bloomingdale area said she agreed to let her mother, who is homeless, stay at her house for a week. She said her mother was drunk and pushed and slapped her. She also said her mother grabbed her daughter by the hair. The mother had already left the house. The daughter didn’t want to press charges.
Oct. 2: A resident of Sandhill Road in the Guyton area said he awoke to his drunken girlfriend hovering over him, taking his cigarettes. He said she was yelling and screaming. A deputy said the woman was so drunk that she didn’t make sense. The deputy stayed until someone came to give her a ride.
Oct. 2: Dogs barking alerted residents of Jerrell Woods Road in the Guyton area to people with flashlights near their vehicle. The homeowner chased the people away. He smelled gas that had been spilled next to his vehicle.
He recognized one of the people who ran as someone who had asked him earlier in the day for gas money to return to Bloomingdale.
Oct. 2: Residents of Squirrel Run in the Rincon area said someone stole items from their unlocked vehicle, including a pocketbook containing prescription drugs.
Dryer Fire
Oct. 2: Renters of a house on Indica Place in the Guyton area left the house with the dryer running. The house caught on fire while they were gone.Oct. 2: A golf cart was stolen from Sandhill Road in the Guyton area. Oct. 2: A resident of Greene Drive in the Rincon area said her ring is missing. She suspects people who were in her house to clean carpets.
Oct. 3: A resident of Tarver Pond Road in the Springfield area said a neighbor’s dog bit him while he was in his own yard. The neighbor had proof that the dog had been vaccinated.
Pregnancy problems
Oct. 6: A 34-year-old woman from Pooler said the father of her unborn child refuses to help her financially or let her stay in his residence on Little McCall Road in the Guyton area. He denied the child is his. The woman was instructed how to get help through Victim-Witness and Superior Court.
Oct. 6: A four-wheeler was stolen from the back yard of a residence on Ga. 119 S. in the Guyton area.
Oct. 6: A resident of Hodgeville Road in the Guyton area said her boyfriend took her vehicle without permission. She reported it as stolen.
Oct. 6: A resident of Old Tusculum Road in the Springfield area field a police report saying he was overcharged on a purchase, which caused two overdraft fees of $35 each. He said his bank refused to help.
Oct. 6: A deputy met a woman at a store on U.S. 80 in Faulkville to take a report. She wanted instructions on how to get make her roommate leave her house. A deputy gave her instructions.
He later spoke with the roommate, a man who said they have an on-again, off-again relationship. He said she is extremely jealous and prone to “acute periods of rage.” He left the house hoping things would cool down.
Oct. 7: A deputy got a report about a car driving without headlights on at 12:30 a.m. He stopped the vehicle on Blue Jay Road at Blandford Crossing. The driver was arrested for drunken driving, failure to maintain lane and seat belt violation.
Oct. 8: A resident of Sunrise Drive in the Guyton area said her former boyfriend has been threatening her and won’t leave her alone.
Westwood carjacking
Oct. 8: A resident of Oglethorpe Road in the Rincon area said she was returning home from work at 5:50 p.m. on a Wednesday when she realized she needed to go to Walmart. She started to back up in her driveway when her driver door was pulled open by a black male with a gun who told her to get out of her vehicle.
She got out of the vehicle and took her pocketbook. The man took the vehicle. Police did not find the man or the vehicle right away.
Oct. 8: A resident of Paddleford Court in the Rincon area said someone keyed both sides of her vehicle. The owner suspects her soon-to-be ex-husband, but has no proof.
Oct. 9: A deputy spoke with a man who was walking from the Buckingham Plaza parking lot. He said he needed a ride to Go Cart Road. The deputy checked and found a current warrant for the man’s arrest out of Chatham County for contempt of court. He was turned over to Pooler Police.
Oct. 9: A resident of Southern Charm Way in the Guyton area said someone filed tax returns using her name and Social Security number.
Oct. 9: A woman said she and her boyfriend argued and he locked her out of their house on Shearouse Road in the Guyton area. A deputy entered through a bathroom window and checked the residence to make sure it was empty. She was given a ride to meet her daughter.
Daughter flees
Oct. 9: A resident of Pebblestone Drive in the Bloomingdale area said her 14-year-old daughter threatened to leave the house and she told her to go ahead. She said she was surprised when her daughter took her up on it and left. She found the girl on U.S. 80 and they got into an argument.
The daughter said she was upset that her mother said she couldn’t have a Facebook page. The girl said she would behave for the evening. The mother said she would contact her daughter’s probation officer.
Oct. 9: A resident of Wheelstone Way in the Guyton area said she and her live-in boyfriend argued because she went to a birthday party attended by her ex-boyfriend. She said he punched the driver’s side window of her car, breaking it.
He said they argued because he said he was leaving her. He said he tried to keep her from driving because she was drunk.
Oct. 9: A resident of Pineland, S.C., said she struck a generator that was in the road on U.S. 80. Her car was damaged but still could be driven.
Oct. 9: A 24-year-old resident of Brooklet said he tried to enroll at Savannah Technical College but couldn’t because an existing student was using his Social Security number.
Contractor complaint
Oct. 10: Residents of Chimney Road in the Rincon area said Kimsey Construction has failed to complete a shop building project and won’t return $11,000 they say they paid in advance. They say Shawn Kimsey kept saying he had health issues and said tools left in a work trailer on their property were collateral.
But the trailer with tools was removed and Kimsey said if they sue him, he’ll file for bankruptcy. A deputy took a report for the Criminal Investigations Division.
Oct. 10: A Savannah woman said she struck a tire on I-16 in the Bloomingdale area and damaged her car.
Oct. 11: A deputy stopped the driver of a Jeep Cherokee on Honey Ridge Road at Floyd Avenue in the Guyton area because it had a broken rear window and broken tail light lens. People in the area had been attributing burglaries and thefts to a man of the driver’s description for the last month.
He admitted stealing a jack and reciprocating saw that were in his vehicle. He was arrested and charged with operating an unregistered vehicle, failure to have license on person, affixing materials that reduce or increase light, tag light required, theft by taking and second-degree burglary.