From incident reports at the Springfield Police Department:
April 19: Deputies responded to an attempted suicide. A man stabbed himself in the chest.
April 23: A man sought a criminal trespass warning against his father, who recently started drinking again. The son said the father was harassing him and his mother, wanting the mother to return to him.
Implausible excuse
April 25: When a Guyton woman left the Family Dollar store, the alarm sounded. She had a $6.50 lady’s razor and $3 worth of light bulbs in her purse.
She said she didn’t know she had the items, that “somehow these items fell into her purse.” She was arrested for shoplifting.
April 25: An officer sitting in the median of Ga. 21 clocked a vehicle doing 63 mph in a 45 mph zone. The driver was arrested on a Chatham County warrant, cited for not having a license with him and warned about speeding.
April 25: A resident of McCall Road returned home and saw a man trying to break into his shed. The man ran away before police arrived. The door was damaged but nothing was missing.
April 26: An officer was dispatched to a vehicle in a ditch on Old Stillwell Road. The driver was arrested for drunken driving and endangering a child.