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WEDNESDAY, JULY 26, 2017
THE JACKSON HERALD
PAGE 9A
JCSO - Jefferson
Two calls are IRS scams
Two people received calls from people claiming to be
with the IRS.
A woman said she had gotten a call saying if she did
not send $3,000 immediately, the IRS would send police
to arrest her.
A man said he was on the phone with someone claim
ing he was with the IRS.
A deputy spoke to the man, who said he was John Wil
liams and was in Washington, D.C.
The deputy asked to speak to his supervisor and was
told he was busy doing paperwork. The deputy told him
to quit calling the number and said the man would press
charges.
COUNTERFEIT BILL AT CLERK’S OFFICE
Clerk of Courts Cammie Thomas said a man tried to
pay a $1,000 fine with hundred dollar bills and one in the
middle appeared to be counterfeit.
She marked it with a counterfeit detector and it did not
turn the right color.
A deputy said. “All of the hologram symbols were not
correct and there was what appeared to be pink and green
Japanese markings on the front and back of it.”
The man said the money came from Community Bank
and Trust in Gainesville, but he did not know the bank's
location.
OTHER INCIDENTS
Other incidents in the Jefferson area reported to the
Jackson County Sheriff’s Office recently include:
•a mother said her 13-year-old daughter was getting
threatening messages on Instagram from another juvenile
girl, her boyfriend and the girl's brother. The threatening
message was in the vein of “I’ll straight up kill you.” The
deputy said he could not determine who made the threat.
The mother said it was the girl’s boyfriend.
•a man said he loaned his vehicle to another man for
one hour July 18. He had not heard from the man in two
days and had no way to contact him.
•a man swallowed “an unknown amount of bleach”
and later was reported to have died at Piedmont Athens
Regional Medical Center. The incident occurred at the
man’s grandfather’s house on Brockton Loop. His mother
said they had an argument, but he had not said anything
about suicide and had no mental problems she knew of.
•a business reported it had a check for $380 that cleared
the bank. The check had the correct account number, but
a different name on it.
•a woman said a man had yelled at her about owing him
$20. She said she did not owe it and told him she did not
have it at this time,
•a man first reported a theft but later said he had stolen
items at his house. He said an acquaintance brought out
door patio chairs to his house and he later learned they
might be stolen. The acquaintance showed up and said he
had been living with the man about two months. They had
a falling out and he planned to move. He said he had taken
the chairs from a Hall County woman’s house with her
permission. She said he had taken the chairs but without
permission. She said it was not a big deal and she was not
interested in the chairs.
•a woman reported suspicious persons near her house
twice July 11, once about 1:11 and again about 3:15 a.m.
The first time she said her dogs were barking and when
she went outside, she saw two people running away from
a bam behind her house. Nothing was found on either
call.
•a man said he was going south on Interstate 85 behind
a trailer of gravel or small rocks. When the track hit a
bump, rocks hit his vehicle. The vehicle had several rock
strikes on the hood and windshield, which also cracked.
•a man on Briar Rose Boulevard said two vehicles were
driving past his house. He believed the vehicles were driv
en by two friends of a man who sometimes stayed with
him. He said the man who stayed with him had threatened
him with a beating.
•a mother on Galilee Church Road said her son was at
her door, mad because she would not get him cigarettes.
He was issued a criminal trespass warning.
•a woman said she discovered her husband had been
cheating on her and confronted him as another woman
made a video on her phone. The woman said she believes
the second woman is going to blackmail her over the
recording.
•a man said someone took $400 from his wallet while
he was at work with a landscaping company. He said he
worked with two men, one of whom is new. That man did
not show up for work the day after the theft.
•a man on W H Hayes Road said a truck with a trailer
pulled up to his gate, saw it was locked and left. He also
said the same three men had been to his house three times
in a white van and said they were there to fix the pool. He
said he doesn’t have a pool.
•a woman said an ex-inmate her husband and she tried
to help had taken some construction tools. They loaned
him the tools, worth about $1,000, she said.
•a man said his girlfriend broke a window on the front
of his house, took his wallet and left the house.
•a man said he is in the process of evicting his stepson.
He said his stepson has become more unstable and is
using methamphetamine. The two were arguing and he
was about to call 911. His stepson threatened him, “I’ll
take you out before they get here.”
•a man on Carruth Road said a neighbor continues to
allow his dog to be off a leash. His dog attacks his small
dogs, he said. Law enforcement has been involved twice,
he said.
•a woman on Rock Forge Road said a car was following
her closely. She slowed down in an area where children
play near the road, and he “abruptly” passed her. She said
she pulled into her drive and the car pulled in behind her.
She said a man began cursing her about driving too slow.
•a man on Low Falls Court said two men were fishing
behind his house and had been for a couple of hours. No
one is allowed to fish in the pond, he said.
•a woman who owns a house on Airport Road said the
side door was damaged. The paint was chipped. She said
it happened between 6 a.m. and 3 p.m. July 12.
•a man was cited for a broken taillight and tire require
ments after a traffic stop. Deputies were on Brockton
Road with a broken-down vehicle. A Honda Civic did not
stop when asked. A deputy went after it and caught the
vehicle at the intersection of Brockton Road and Thyati-
ra-Brockton Road. It did not stop and turned onto South
Apple Valley Road. “The vehicle obviously saw my lights
and heard my siren,” a deputy said. The driver first said he
did not pull over because “I didn’t do anything wrong.”
He then said he didn’t see the deputy, then he was look
ing for a safe place to pull over. A deputy said the driver
was on his cell phone “nearly the entire time.” A deputy
smelled burned marijuana in the car, but none was found.
•a vehicle rolled down a hill and was parked on top of
an electrical box for a subdivision on Robin Way. The
area was blocked for safety. The owner said his family
was about to go see a movie when he remembered the
windows were down in the Ford Expedition. He asked his
12-year-old son to roll up the windows and move it closer
to the house. The son put it in reverse and it began rolling
backward. He said it felt as if the brake wasn’t working
and he jumped from the SUV. It hit a park bench in the
yard and then the transformer box.
•two calls July 16 dealt with a man and woman who
were splitting up. A woman said her daughter and boy
friend split up in a dispute over a vehicle. The two were
not married and no custody arrangement had been made.
•a man said two pieces of his mail were laying on the
street in front of his mailbox. He said it has been dam
aged, is easy to open and difficult to shut. He believes
someone got in the box, got mail out and threw mail on
the ground.
•a man said he agreed to have body work and a paint
job done on his car at a car dealers for $2,100. The owner
of the business called about a month later, said he had
fired his employees and the work would cost $3,500.
The man agreed, but objected to the job done. He said it
“looked like it was done by ‘high schoolers.” The owner
and man went back and forth and the owner said he would
have to pay $1,500 for the materials. When he went to pay
that and get the car, the receptionist told him the owner
said charge him $2,500 because he had involved the sher
iff’s department.
•a man reported his daughter’s iPhone fell off the car
on Akers Road when she forgot it. The family searched.
JPD continued from 8A
station said an “Us Again” box was placed there after the
other box was removed. An employee of “Us Again” told
him that group does not switch boxes. The man said the box
was worth about $500. He also said the same thing happened
at the Arcade Food Mart.
•a man on Silver Bell Road called the suicide crisis line
about committing suicide. He said he had “been battling
with suicidal thoughts” for a couple of months but the last
two days “have been the worst.” He said it started when he
was in the army in 1982 when a helicopter in which he was
flying was shot down and all the soldiers except him were
killed. He said he had been having flashbacks of the crash,
wondering why he was the only survivor. He loaded his 9
mm handgun, but did not use it because he thought of his
grandchildren. He was taken to Northeast Georgia Medical
Center for treatment.
•a man said he came home for lunch June 3 and found
unbolted door deadbolts. The next day he found that almost
all of his jewelry, worth about $1,230, was missing from his
bedroom. He said he suspected his girlfriend’s daughter’s
boyfriend had taken it. A Gwinnett County officer told him
July 11 that the boyfriend and his girlfriend’s daughter had
been arrested and some jewelry was found on the boyfriend.
•officers found the front and rear doors of Wireless Plus
on Lee Street open from forced entry. A caller said he or
she could see someone in the store. No one was found in the
building, but some of the interior doors had been kicked open
and were damaged.
•a mother said she had an altercation with her daughter.
The daughter seemed to be “frantic” at the woman’s house.
The daughter said they argued over “speed.”
•a woman said she forgot medication and left it in a bath
room at McDonald’s. She said she was missing 80 Percocet
and 40 Methadone pills.
•an officer was at On the Run store when the nightshift
manager said a customer found a small baggie of marijuana
on the floor of the store.
•a man said a woman “entered” his house and then said he
let her in. He said the two got into an argument and he told
her to leave.
•a woman in Pine Street Apartments said she and a friend
got into an argument over a text message.
•a woman said her house was broken into.
•a man reported garbage dumped behind a Borders Street
address. The trash indicated it was from a nearby store and
that the offenders were looking for scratched lottery tickets.
•a man said his in-laws, who live in Utah, told him they got
a statement from Sprint about a new account under his name.
The man said he also was notified. Sprint said the person
who opened the account had his date of birth, Social Security
number and name, but not the correct address.
•a woman said her father was posting “slanderous” things
about her and her husband on Facebook.
•a girl said her father is having a relationship with a
17-year-old girl, but never buys food for those in the house
and that it has a pest infestation. She also said he does not buy
hygiene products for her brother or her.
•a man on abandoned property at Mahaffey and Hill streets
was cited for possession of less than an ounce of marijuana.
•a man said someone pried open a side window and
entered his Peachtree Street house. Nothing was taken.
•a woman said she paid a bill of $58 to Metro PCS with
money taken out at a Walmart in Winder. She got a confir
mation text message but later got a message that it had been
reversed. The business told her a man and woman came into
the store and said it was paid with stolen money.
•16 accidents were reported with two injuries. Seven of the
wrecks were on private property. One wreck involved three
vehicles and one was a collision with a deer near Highway
129 bypass and Old Pendergrass Road.
NOTICE TO THE PUBLIC
City of Maysville
Pursuant to Section 21-2-132(d) (3) qualifying
for the November 7, 2017, General Election will
be held on Monday, August 21, 2017 through
Wednesday, August 23, 2017, 8:30 a.m. to 4:30
p.m. in the office of the City Clerk office located
at 226 South Main Street.
Qualifying fees are as follows:
Councilperson Ward 1 $72.00
Councilperson Ward 3 $72.00
The last day a person may register and be eligible
to vote in the November 2017 Municipal General
Election will be October 10, 2017.
Barbara Thomas
City Administrator/Qualifying Officer
July 24, 2017
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