From incident reports at the Effingham County Sheriff’s Office:
July 30: A construction company dug up a tree and damaged a fence on Sandhill Road in the Guyton area.
July 30: A woman said her drunken husband repeatedly assaulted her throughout the night and day and she couldn’t call for help because he had the only phone.
He later took their TV and DVD player, saying he was going to pawn them for drug money. Deputies used a K-9 to find him hiding under the trailer. He was arrested for battery and obstruction.
July 30: A woman said she was tired of her son and his wife arguing.
Aug. 1: A deputy responded to a crash on Clyo-Kildare Road in the Clyo area. The driver, who suffered a head injury, was cited for drunken driving and failure to maintain lane.
Aug. 3: A deputy stopped to help the driver of a car parked on Ralph Rahn Road in the Springfield area. He was arrested for driving with a suspended license.
Aug. 3: A man surrendered a dog to the county animal shelter and said it had bitten him on the thumb. The dog had been vaccinated for rabies.
Aug. 4: A resident of Blackwater Way in the Springfield area said a neighbor came to her door with a gun. The neighbor said he’d been asked to keep an eye on the house and was making sure everything was OK.
Aug. 4: A resident of Raccoon Drive in the Eden area said a neighbor lets his dogs and chickens run on her property. She also complained about a black tarp attached to the fence on her side.
Aug. 4: A utility worker was hit by a hit-and-run driver on Ga. 30 at Partridge Run Road in the Guyton area. His elbow was hurt.
Aug. 4: Someone broke into a shipping container and stole tools. Race Path Road in the Rincon area.
Computer scam
Aug. 4: A woman said her husband was using Facebook when the screen went black. It then showed a number to call Microsoft. Her husband called the phone number and someone supposedly from Microsoft told him that someone from Russia had been using his email and looking at pornography.
The husband gave the man on the phone his credit card number to fix the computer. Her husband was out $406 but the computer was not repaired. Edgewood Road in the Guyton area.
Aug. 4: A woman seeking a temporary protective order said another woman has been calling her as many as 37 times a day.
Aug. 4: A deputy stopped a vehicle for weaving on Ga. 17 at Jabez Jones Road in the Bloomingdale area. The driver said she was trying to fix her radio because a speaker quit working. She was notified that her license was suspended for safety responsibilities, given a warning and given a ride home.
Aug. 5: A vehicle a deputy stopped during a traffic investigation was towed because it didn’t have insurance. Ga. 17 at Griffin Lake Road in the Guyton area.
Aug. 5: Deputies arrested a man who was wanted for his involvement in a domestic dispute earlier in the day. Reedsville Road at Gold Kist Road in the Clyo area.
Mom calls
Aug. 5: A Springfield woman said her son took her car without permission and he doesn’t have a driver’s license. She said he’s on drugs and can be violent. She said he threatened to burn down her house and vehicles if she called authorities.
Aug. 5: Someone broke into a house on Old River Road in the Meldrim area. Nothing was taken.
Dog bite
Aug. 5: A boy was bitten on the face by a neighbor’s Husky. The boy’s mother entered the neighbor’s house unannounced and placed the boy on the dog’s back. The dog then turned and bit the boy on the face. The dog was quarantined because it hadn’t been vaccinated for rabies. Westwood Drive in the Rincon area.
Aug. 6: A woman said she and her husband argued about his daughter and he threatened her.
Aug. 6: A brand new car was disabled at Ga. 21 and McCall Road because its brakes quit working. The brake fluid was empty. The owner said it was the second time she’d had problems with the brakes. The dealership sent someone to retrieve the vehicle.
Aug. 6: A deputy called a tow truck for an SUV that was missing a wheel and blocking part of Old River Road near U.S. 80.
Aug. 6: A couple argued. She bit him on the arm. She said it was because he wouldn’t let her go. They were both cited with disorderly house, since deputies have been there nine times before.
Aug. 6: Front and back doors were pried open on a residence on Webb Road in the Springfield area. Nothing was taken.
Aug. 7: A resident of the Springfield area said he and his girlfriend were drinking and got into an argument. She took off walking and he was worried about her safety.
Aug. 7: A resident of Arrowhead Drive in the Guyton area said someone moved $500 from his bank account to his PayPal account and then removed it, without his permission.
Aug. 7: A deputy was called when a man and woman argued about when she would get the children. They disagreed about whether Aug. 7 was the first or second weekend of the month.
Go away
Aug. 7: A resident of Ga. 119 S. in the Springfield area complained that his neighbor tried to pet his dogs that are meant for protection. He also complained that she walked into his garage instead of the front door to knock. She was given a criminal trespass warning.
Aug. 7: A couple argued. She said he took her keys and didn’t give them back to her until she called authorities.
Aug. 7: A man from Oakman, Ga., said a tractor trailer without mud flaps threw rocks at his windshield, damaging it, on Ga. 26 at Zeigler Road in the Bloomingdale area.
Aug. 7: A deputy stopped a driver for going 83 mph in a 70 mph zone on I-16. He was held on a Florida warrant.
Aug. 7: A company moving a trailer damaged grass and cut branches on a neighbor’s property on Low Ground Road in the Guyton area.
Aug. 7: A woman complained that her daughter’s father refused to let her see their 10-year-old daughter.
Feuding neighbors
Aug. 8: A woman said her neighbor threatened to kill her dog. She said she’s had trouble with the neighbor ever since she asked her to return the key to her house, when she noticed items missing.
The neighbor says the other woman is an alcoholic who is harassing her and who knocked over her trash cans. Patterson Drive in the Guyton area.
Aug. 8: Neighbors argued about vehicles speeding down an access road on Ackerman Road in the Rincon area. One used trenches and wood to block the lane and reportedly threatened to kill the other if he harmed his child, who was riding on a four-wheeler.
Phone scam
Aug. 8: An 82-year-old Clyo man sent $1,400 to get his grandson out of jail in Haiti, because he was at fault in a vehicle accident. The man sent another $600 the next day to keep his grandson from being sued. The report didn’t say if the calls asking for money were a scam, but the deputy listed the crime as “theft by deception – felony.”
Aug. 8: A woman suspects her ex-husband of damaging her air conditioner, leaving the doors to her house open and breaking the water line from the tank to her well.
Aug. 8: A contractor and an employee argued about completing a job and money. Cypress Drive in the Rincon area.
Aug. 8: A woman and her ex-boyfriend argued about him retrieving his belongings. He was given a criminal trespass notice.
Unwanted invitation
Aug. 8: A Guyton resident said someone rang her doorbell at 2 a.m. and asked if she wanted to go fishing. She said it was a man wearing a fishing hat, who may have been drunk. Deputies did not find the man.
Aug. 8: A man attacked another man who was helping his girlfriend move. They were separated and the victim was advised of Magistrate procedures.
Aug. 8: A deputy stopped a vehicle for running a stop sign at Standard Lane and Wallace Road in the Springfield area. The driver was arrested for driving with a suspended license and on a warrant from Screven County.
Aug. 8: A deputy stopped a vehicle at the Clyo Trading post because the passenger wasn’t wearing a seat belt. The passenger was arrested on a warrant from Pembroke, Ga.
Aug. 8: A Statesboro woman said her cell phone was stolen from her vehicle while she was getting fuel at the Ken’s IGA in Guyton.
Leave now
Aug. 8: A Guyton woman said she wanted her adult daughter removed from her house because of a drug abuse problem. A deputy explained the eviction process.
Aug. 9: A deputy stopped a vehicle that was weaving on Ga. 21 S. at Middleground Road. The driver, who was eating some food from Burger King, was arrested for driving with a suspended license, failure to maintain lane, suspended registration and no insurance.
Aug. 9: A deputy went to Ebenezer boat ramp and picked up a man who had been arrested by state Department of Natural Resources agents for drunken boating. The deputy took the man to the county jail.
Aug. 9: A drunken man argued with his girlfriend, hit her and ran when she called 911. He ran into a tree, injuring himself.
Deputies eventually found him, along with a woman he had called to come get him. He was arrested for battery, public drunkenness and obstruction and the woman, who repeatedly lied to deputies, was arrested for obstruction.