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THE JACKSON HERALD
WEDNESDAY, MAY 17, 2017
JCSO incidents - Athens
JCSO incidents - Jefferson
Dispute leads to group leaving pool
A group of people was told to leave the Traditions subdivi
sion pool after two calls to the sheriff’s office May 7.
The pool lifeguard made the first call, saying he had a dispute
with a man after the lifeguard told some juvenile not to throw
a football in the pool.
The lifeguard said the man "got up in his face” and said the
kids could do what they wanted. Another man, who said he
was on the board of the homeowners’ association, interjected
to talk to the man.
The second call was a woman who complained that a drunk
man at the pool made offensive remarks and was taunting her
and a man she was with. It was the same man who confronted
the lifeguard.
He was with a woman and several “older looking teen” boys.
The boys “told her that they hoped they caught her kids out
and about one day.” She took that as a threat.
The woman said she and the man tried to move to the other
side of the pool but that didn’t work.
A deputy and the lifeguard told the man and those with him
they would have to leave.
OTHER INCIDENTS
Other incidents in the Jefferson area reported to the Jackson
County Sheriff’s Office recently include:
•a man on Wilhite Road was shot in the left hip when two
men tried to go through a door of a home simultaneously. The
men said they were discussing a Hi Point 9 mm handgun that
was malfunctioning. A live round might have been stuck in the
chamber or the gun had a malfunctioning firing pin. The wound
was a “through and through flesh wound.” The statements of
the men matched. The man shot was taken to Piedmont Athens
Regional Medical Center.
•a tractor-trailer jack-knifed and block Old Pendergrass Road
in the 5000 block May 8. The driver said the universal joint
was broken. A fire department truck pulled the vehicle out of
the road.
•a man on Davenport Road said a woman was going through
vehicles, looking for a lighter. Residents of Hall County report
ed similar actions by a woman. A deputy found a woman who
said she did not enter any vehicles. She agreed she did when
the deputy told her about the other witnesses. The man who
reported it said he offered her food and gave her a pair of shoes
because she was barefooted. A Hall County deputy arrested her
for entering an automobile,
•a mailman reported he was going north on Highway 129
when he heard a loud noise. He thought something hit his
vehicle. He reported the noise to 911. Later he noticed damage
to his windshield, a small chip. Several cracks developed from
the chip after he made several more deliveries.
•a woman said her two nieces were yelling at her because she
would not let them spend the night. The woman and one niece
were together when a deputy arrived. They “seemed to be upset
and were talking over one another.” The woman said she did
not feel good and did not want anyone there. The second niece,
a juvenile, said the house was “grandma’s.” The mother of the
nieces came back with the juvenile. She said the argument was
not physical.
•a woman said a man took a juvenile girl to Orlando, Fla.,
May 3, and she had not heard from them until about 6 p.m.
May 7. She said the man said they were in Valdosta on the way
home. The woman said the girl was supposed to be at her house
May 7, but she had not heard from them. A deputy checked at
the man’s house and the juvenile was okay.
•a man said an Echo backpack blower and a gas can were
taken from his shed while his wife and he were on vacation.
He later added the man also took a Husqvama chainsaw. He
provided video of the suspect who took the items.
•a woman said her boyfriend and she were breaking up. She
said he left the house and took her car keys, a fire safe and her
telephone. She could not leave because he had the keys. He said
he had the items, but that the safe also included vehicle titles
and important paperwork. The mother returned the requested
items to her.
•a woman said an 11-year-old boy was trying to leave the
house of his grandparents. The boy did leave and was picked up
by a family friend who took him to the house. He told a deputy
he wanted to go to his girlfriend’s house because her parents
think “he's a bad kid.” The family friend took the boy to her
house for the night.
•a woman said she wanted to remove items from her house
that belonged to her father. He said he could not remove them
and said he would come to her work place to talk about it. She
said she thought she might lose her job if he showed up “caus
ing trouble.” She said she would put the items into a vehicle he
also had on her property and have it towed if he didn’t come
get it.
•a woman said her daughter was harassing her with texts
after the mother accused her of stealing the mother's bottle of
Xanax pills. The mother made the charge, and said she had her
daughter removed from her home May 3. The harassing texts
came between 8 and 8:30 a.m. May 5. The texts said the daugh
ter would accuse her mother of fraud and money laundering if
the mother did not drop the charge against her daughter.
•the store manager at Bulldog Package Store said someone
tried to get in through the drive-in window but was unsuc
cessful. The window frame was damaged. A metal cage is on
the inside of the window. The thieves were unable to break
through. A piece of cardboard used to cover the window and a
piece of split firewood were in the drive-through. The wood had
JCSO incidents - Pendergrass
Major equipment damage
reported in Pendergrass
A man said his excavation equipment was severely damaged
in Pendergrass last week.
Officers with the Jackson County Sheriff’s Office were
called to a Stockton Farm Road location on reports of criminal
damage. The complainant said three excavators had been used
and two were damaged after being hit against each other. He
estimates the damage totals between $15,000-$25,000.
The suspects also vandalized the equipment with spray paint
and a fire extinguisher and wasted three loads of gravel.
The complainant reported a similar incident a month ago.
OTHER INCIDENTS
Other incidents reported to the JCSO in Pendergrass were:
•verbal dispute on Brown Thrasher Place where a woman
reported her father and his girlfriend were arguing. She didn’t
want to press charges but wanted the “drama” to stop.
•information on Periwinkle Way where a woman reported a
missing juvenile. He was later found riding an ATV that broke
down in the woods.
•suspicious vehicle on Old State Road where a woman ran
out of gas and parked on the side of the road.
been used to pop the frame. Several packs of cigarettes were
lying in the floor.
•a man said someone apparently tried to break into his bam
on Hogans Mill Road. A hole, about 3-feet by 2-feet was in the
side of the bam and a board that came off the bam was broken
into two pieces on the ground. A stud for the bam was in the
middle of the hole, making it difficult to get a person through
the hole or something inside out. Nothing was missing from
the bam.
•a woman said a man she engaged to work on her damaged
car had not finished the work and would not meet with her to
return the money or parts he took from the car. The woman
said she hit a deer in March. The man, who she met through
her daughter, took parts from the car to get prices. She also
gave him $900 in advance. She said she believes he is making
excuses about returning the money and parts.
•a woman said a man agreed to buy a guitar, small amp
and guitar case, which she posted online. He sent a check for
$1,979 that was to cover the items and shipping. She said the
check was from “Road master auto” and had Post Oak Bank
on it. When she called the bank, she was told the account had
been closed.
•a woman said a man in North Carolina who was a college
classmate more than a decade ago had been texting, calling and
using Facebook Messenger “professing his love.” She said the
two never dated and he was in some of her classes at North
Georgia State College & University. A deputy inspected the
texts and said they "have become more and more aggressive
toward her and her family.” Many of the texts “are incoherent
rants stating he loves her and the in the same text threatens her.”
•a 911 operator said a man called harassing her. The man
said he was being threatened by a man with a BB gun, but
then began making comments about his penis and asking for a
date. He also made comments about being in prison and a man
"trying to put things in his butt.” She said she told him it was
against the law to harass 911 operators and the man hung up.
•a man said his daughter ran away from home. He said two
cousins saw her get picked up by a Ford truck on Hunter Road.
He said while deputies were there that his older daughter said
the juvenile was at a Hale Road house. The older daughter saw
Facebook messages from another female to his daughter. Other
deputies found the juvenile at a house on Red Oak Road. The
woman she was with said she sent her son to get her from the
Hale Road house.
•a woman said railroad tracks at the Ramble Inn Road
appeared to be “coming up.” A deputy found one stake on the
road, not in the ground. He watched several vehicles cross the
tracks. It did appear the wood on the tracks “was loose but did
not appear to be a traffic hazard yet.” The county dispatch office
notified CSX of the problem.
•a couple on Galilee Church Road had a dispute but sepa
rated. The husband told a deputy his wife got angry when he
"said something.” He said the house smelled like baby feces
when he got home from work. He said she “swung a clothes
hanger and a broom handle” at him. She said he was arguing
“loudly” about the condition of the house. She said she was
attending to their three children, twin infants and a 3-year-old,
and had not had time to clean. She said they also “attempted to
argue” over an issue dealing with eviction. The husband said
they both needed “a cooling down.” Her grandmother took her
to a doctor’s appointment.
•a woman said an ex-girlfriend of her boyfriend had been
sending her harassing text messages through Facebook Mes
senger. She said the woman had posted multiple times that she
is pregnant by her boyfriend. She has told the woman to leave
her and her boyfriend alone. The woman's boyfriend also sent
her a friend request on Facebook and called her names when
she told him to leave her alone.
•a man said his father called him names when he told him to
leave. He said his father had killed a man and he reported him
to the FBI and Gwinnett County, "but nothing was being done.”
•the sheriff’s office had three calls May 11 about drug
activity on Legg Road, Lebanon Church Road and Oak Park
Drive. One was from a "reliable confidential informant,” the
report said.
Man calls police about
a suspicious person
An officer with the Jackson County Sherriff’s Office
was called out to Brock Road by a man who complained
about a suspicious person going into a vacant house
next to his.
The man was still at the house when officers arrived.
The man said that he was going to start renting the house
from his mother. The mother then came out of the house
confirming the story.
Then the officer went to the neighbor's house to tell
him that they were the homeowners.
OTHER INCIDENTS
Other incidents reported to the JCSO in Athens were:
•suspicious vehicles on Banks Road where a couple
complained about trucks flashing bright lights at their
windows. On the scene police determined that the trucks
were from Jackson EMC and they were fixing a power
pole,
•damage to property on Hwy. 334 where a woman’s
trashcans were hit by a car.
•suspicious vehicle on Brock Road where a man says
a vehicle pulled up to a house in his neighborhood that
is being remodeled. Police questioned the driver of the
vehicle who said that the he was going to start renting
the house from his mother soon. The mother then pulled
up and confirmed what the son had said.
•motorist assist on Tallassee Road where a ball joint
on a truck had broken making the driver unable to get
the car off the road. A tow truck came to take the vehicle
and an officer drove the driver to his residence.
•suspicious vehicle on Hwy. 330 where a truck was
parked at a business for several hours.
•information on New Kings Bridge Road where an
ex-husband and wife got into an argument over their
son driving with a suspended license. An officer told the
ex-husband that it was illegal to allow someone with a
suspended license to drive his vehicle but he didn’t care.
•deceased person on JT Elrod Road where police
found a man lifeless with no wounds on his body. The
person that lives with the deceased who called 911 said
that the man was on many different medications, but
he was also drinking heavily. He had also complained
about feeling weak and having trouble breathing.
•drug info on Ford Road where police received a tip
about a man selling drugs from his home.
GSP incident
Garbage truck
worker struck
in Hoschton
A garbage truck worker was struck by a vehicle last
week in Hoschton.
According to the Georgia State Patrol report, a 23-year-
old Clarkesville man crossed the westbound lane of
River Chase from behind a garbage collection truck that
was traveling east. He reportedly failed to yield and was
struck by a Nissan Versa driven by a 25-year-old Hoschton
woman.
The man was transported to Northeast Georgia Medical
Center Gainesville with multiple injuries.
A witness said the man was riding on the back of the
truck and darted across the westbound lane when the vehi
cle stopped. The driver of the garbage truck saw the car
coming, but couldn’t warn him in time.
He was warned for not wearing any safety equipment.
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