May 2: Driver stopped for having one headlight out in the rain. He was arrested for not having his driver’s license with him. Sand Hill Road in the Eden area.
May 2: A county code enforcement officer reported that a trailer that had been foreclosed on and empty for a while was destroyed on the inside. Patterson Drive in the Guyton area.
May 2: A woman was accused of taking a man’s oxycodone and hydrocodone. He took out a criminal trespass warrant against her. Courthouse Road in the Springfield area.
May 3: Two brothers argued because one said the other’s cat killed his chicken. Both men were told to keep their animals on their own property. Sand Hill Road in the Guyton area.
May 3: A former student at South Effingham High School was driving erratically and fast as he went to pick up a current student. When the principal told him to slow down, he disregarded the principal and “cussed him out.”
May 4: A man who was speeding and driving erratically through Quail Run Mobile Home Park was arrested for drunken driving and suspended license.
May 4: Two sons held down their drunken father because he was hitting his head on objects and punching things. The sons held the father until deputies arrived. Antigua Place in the Guyton area.
May 5: A Sapp’s tow truck driver, who responded to a call to tow a semi truck that was blocking the road on Ga. 21, on a Sunday afternoon, was arrested for obstruction. The deputy said the Sapp’s driver didn’t get there fast enough and a Rahn’s wrecker had already been called. The Sapp’s driver and the owner of the truck were arrested for obstruction. Rahn’s towed the truck.
May 5: A truck was found abandoned in a ditch on Boaen Road near Springfield-Egypt Road, with coolers of beer and empty beer cans inside. Deputies found the owner of the truck at a house on Springfield-Egypt Road and arrested him for drunken driving-refusal, driving with an expired license and failure to maintain lane.
— G.G. Rigsby