From incident reports at the Effingham County Sheriff’s Office:
July 16: A man buying a house on Huger Street in the Rincon area said he found a moonshine still set up in the back yard. A deputy promised extra patrols and said if the still was there the next day, deputies would remove it.
July 16: A Springfield man reported getting threatening text messages, telling him not to sleep and to “bring a lunch box and tombstone.” He suspects the messages come from the brother of his child’s mother. McCall Road in the Springfield area.
July 16: A man admitted breaking the laptop belonging to his girlfriend’s juvenile daughter. He said he broke it because the girl was looking at porn. He was arrested for criminal damage to property in the second degree. Redmond Road in the Guyton area.
July 16: A father and son injured each other in a fight over ongoing family problems. They struck each other with a glass lamp and a glass, pig-shaped utensil holder. Oak Drive in the Bloomingdale area.
July 18: A drunken pedestrian who said he believed he was in South Carolina, selling peaches, was arrested. Horsepen Road in the Guyton area.
July 18: A man said he caught the boy next door looking into the bathroom window of his house, through a broken blind. The boy’s mother denied her son’s guilt. The man had a photo of shoe prints beneath his bathroom window. Stonesthrow Court in the Guyton area.
July 19: Someone knocked down a mailbox and a yellow sign with a black arrow indicating an upcoming curve in the road. McCall Road in the Springfield area.
July 19: A deputy intervened twice when a drunken mother and son argued on Pitts Road in the Newington area. The mother said she was mad because her son stays home and gets drunk instead of looking for a job.
July 20: A woman who works at Georgia Pacific said her wallet was stolen while she was at work. It contained her driver’s license, Social Security card and $90 cash.
July 20: Two neighbors on White Bluff Drive argued. One complained that debris from the neighbor’s fire barrel was drifting to his side of the fence. The other had called to complain that his neighbor’s children were making too much noise throwing bean bags in a corn hole game in the yard at 2 a.m.
July 20: A golf cart ferrying wedding guests from the Kroger parking lot to the Silverwood club house broke the arm on the gate to the subdivision. Silverwood Drive in the Rincon area.
July 20: A Rincon man said the accelerator stuck on his 1994 Ford F-150 pickup truck and caused the vehicle to be stuck in a muddy ditch. Clyo-Kildare Road in the Clyo area.
— G.G. Rigsby