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The Paper | Thursday, June 13, 2013
POLICE REPORT Jefferson Police
■■ A driver involved in a June 5 traffic accident on Damon Gause Parkway was taken into custody for following too closely, new resident required to register within 30 days and driving on a suspended license. ■■ A Brooklyn Chase Apartment resident called police June 5 to report she had been attacked by a man she described. The woman suffered a brain injury and is treated with medications which cause hallucinations. No crime could be determined. ■■ A Pine Street Apartment resident advised police of harassment by telecommunications on June 5. The complainant has repeatedly asked the suspect to leave her alone but he refuses to stop texting her. The man texted she should kill herself. She was advised how to obtain a temporary restraining order. ■■ A man was advised he is not to return to Pine Street Apartments after a June 8 complaint that he continues to create problems. ■■ A man fled on foot from Jefferson Drugs Pharmacy on June 7 after he became nervous at the pharmacist’s action. The pharmacist had been alerted by the Georgia Drugs and Narcotics Agency that the suspect was attempting to obtain narcotics with forged prescriptions. ■■ A bicycle left at Haney’s Car Wash on June 4 was reported missing on June 6. ■■ When he received a welcome package in the mail, a Jefferson man learned someone had gotten service from Verizon using his Social Security number. ■■ A verbal dispute was reported June 6 by a Pine Street Apartments resident. Alcohol and drugs were involved, the report shows. ■■ A Silver Bell Avenue resident reported his vehicle was rolled with toilet paper on June 5. A description of a truck with male juveniles inside was provided but no suspects have yet been located. ■■ A driver notified police he struck a deer on Highway 15 in Jefferson on June 1. ■■ An Elrod Avenue resident reported someone stole his wallet on June 1 and his debit card was used at the Shell station. The wallet contained $100 in cash, a $44 money order and the debit card. A possible suspect was identified. ■■ A Pendergrass resident who went to shop at Kroger reported June 3 her Coach wallet was stolen out of her vehicle. The wallet contained $150 in cash and check worth $1,000 made out to the victim. ■■ A mother reported interference with custody on June 3 when she said the father of her child who has no legal rights to the child is refusing the return the child. The father’s mother said her son had a text message from the mother allowing him to keep the child until June 10. The mother denied that and said the father has since turned off his phone so she can’t reach him. ■■ The man and woman having an argument were involved in a criminal trespass incident on June 10 on River Mist Circle. Both were taken into custody. The woman cut Antiques and the tires on a vehicle to Collectibles preventShow: her husband from oin us for these dates: leaving in the car. The February man 1st shouldered : 9 AM tothe 5 PM door of2nd the house open get y February : 9 AM to 5to PM keys to another vehicle y February 3rd : 10 AM to 4 PM was attempting & Lunchand served by Angie’stoCafe leave the scene when law enforcement arrived.
■■ A Cleveland man reported he had been threatened by the exhusband of his girlfriend’s sister on June 7. ■■ A 5-year-old child struck another child while they were playing on the playground at the Jefferson Rec Department on Old Pendergrass Road on June 9. When the father of the child who was struck went toward the baseball field to advise the other child’s father, a woman, the mother of the child who did the hitting, attempted to intervene. When she grabbed the man’s arm, he yelled at her. She said he cursed her and he did not recall if he had cursed her. He said he was going to advise the man to keep his son off the playground if he was going to fight. Police were then called. She said the other father was threatening her husband, who has a medical condition. ■■ A harassing by telecommunications complaint was filed June 8 by two persons who say they are being harassed by her ex-boyfriend. ■■ Five traffic accidents were investigated; no injuries were reported.
Jackson County Sheriff’s Office ■■ A Pendergrass resident reported her new lawnmower was stolen from her Holly Springs Road home where it was padlocked to the propane tank on June 3. The complainant, who had provided the name of several possible suspects including a family member’s former drug supplier, notified authorities that her son had returned the mower after using it. ■■ A dispute was reported June 3 at a Holiday Cemetery Road location where the parties involved were intoxicated. ■■ A June 3 verbal dispute over getting a new cat was reported at an Ednaville Road location. Alcohol was a contributing factor, the report shows. ■■ A case of road rage was investigated June 3 on Interstate 85 at mile marker 137. A tractortrailer driver notified 911 that a UPS truck was driving erratically and then received a call from the UPS driver that he was being harassed by another driver who was shining a flashlight into his cab and interfering with his vision. Law enforcement talked with both parties at the Flying J and both went their separate ways.
■■ Things got heated in a 10-year-old girls’ championship softball game on June 1 at the county ballfields on County Farm Road and two coaches were ordered to leave the property for the remainder of the event. Rec officials indicated that the two had to be physically restrained and one grabbed a bat although did not use it in a threatening manner. Because there is an ongoing issue between the two teams, the two men were asked to leave. ■■ While a deputy stood by, a family member retrieved belongings from a Meadow Creek Drive home on May 31 and was advised not to return. ■■ After a June 1 dispute in West Jackson Mobile Home Park, a driver reported damage to her vehicle. Another subject had repeated slammed the door during the incident and now the door will not open from the inside. ■■ A Woodland Hills Drive resident reported a June 2 criminal trespass and harassment by phone in which an ex-girlfriend’s boyfriend is harassing him. The complainant is uncertain why he is being harassed but had to replace $500 worth of tires after roof tacks were found in his driveway. The man who has also been shining a light into the man’s home and driving by in a harassing manner is suspected. ■■ On June 2, a Braselton resident reported damage to the drywall of his Cedar Ridge Drive basement after a family member and his girlfriend argued and the family member punched holes in the drywall. The girlfriend left the premises and no charges are being pursued against the family member. Alcohol was involved in the incident. ■■ A dispute was reported outside Our Store in Pendergrass when a mother and father exchanging their children and the father attempted to talk with the mother about her new boyfriend’s registered sex offender status. The boyfriend arrived on the scene and an argument ensued between the two men. The woman said she was familiar with the boyfriend’s status. The deputy advised the parents to pick a neutral place to exchange the children to avoid a confrontation. ■■ A driver stopped at Jefferson River Road and Archer Grove Road on May 30 was taken into custody on charges of driving while unlicensed and affixing a license plate to conceal a vehicle’s I.D.
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■■ A Bend Drive resident told authorities there was a snake behind the washing machine in her home on May 29. Deputy Steve Thompson was unable to locate the snake and the resident was advised to contact a snake removal company if she sees the snake again. ■■ A Jackson County deputy in her private vehicle was run off the roadway while she was attempting to exit off Interstate 85 at Highway 129 on May 24. She had seen the other vehicle, a Crown Victoria, which had already been reported for erratic driving, running in and out of the roadway. The driver slowed down and pulled up beside the deputy. She asked what was wrong with him and he yelled something and refused to give his name and I.D when she identified herself as a law enforcement officer. When he drove away, she was forced to jump back. The Crown Victoria ran a red light as it drove away. The vehicle was stopped by Pendergrass Police Chief Robert LaRocque, who determined the man had a suspended license. Passengers in the vehicle who said they wanted out of the vehicle because of the driver’s actions indicated they told the driver to stop. The passengers also had warrants pending so they were also taken into custody. ■■ A simple battery incident was reported May 28 on Melvin Phillips Road after two men got into an altercation after one man’s dog went onto the other man’s property and attacked his smaller dog. The two declined to press charges. ■■ A Johnson Mill Road resident lost his tractor to a fire on May 24 after it had been repaired. The man moved the tractor into the basement garage where it caught fire. The
tractor was destroyed and the garage sustained smoke damage. ■■ A 17-year-old wearing only blue shorts was walking down the middle of Brockton Loop on May 24. He said he was walking home from a party at the lake rather than riding with a drunk driver. The youth was taken into custody and cited for pedestrian under the influence and underage consumption of alcohol. Law enforcement checked the location where the party was said to have been but no one was at the scene. ■■ A man reported threats were made against him by a man he had done business with in the past. He was “fronted” speakers to be installed but went into the hospital and has not yet completed the job to get payment to pay for the speakers. According to the complainant, the suspect came to his Jackson Park Drive residence on May 24 and threatened him in front of his son. The suspect said the man told him he had his money and he went to pick it up and was unable to get the man to the door. When he did, the man called 911. ■■ The investigation which linked former Assistant EMS director Michael Gosnell to an Effingham County Sheriff’s Office Internet crimes against children case has been turned over to the Georgia Bureau of Investigation Internet Crimes Against Children
Task Force. Between October and December of last year, an individual using an anonymous screen name was chatting with the online profile of a 15-year-old girl who was actually an Effingham County investigator. After the screen name user was identified as Gosnell, Jackson County Sheriff’s Office was contacted on May 17. Gosnell’s employment had been terminated.
Braselton Police ■■ A juvenile was reportedly struck by a white pickup truck as he stood along White Walnut Way on June 7. Two other juveniles were sitting on the curb and said they saw the truck swerve toward them and strike the other juvenile. The driver, a female who appeared to have been drinking, got out and told the injured boy who was lying on the ground he was OK and got back into her vehicle and drove away. Officer Josh Stewart located the vehicle with what appeared to be fresh damage. Another driver arrived and said he had been with the suswpect at two different locations where she consumed several drinks. He followed her back from Soprano’s where she had parked her car before they went to Buford. The victim, who was having trouble breathing, was transported by See POLICE, 7A
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