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November 16, 2016
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Bogulski indicted for thefts
Prosecutors say
Forsyth Facebook com
mentator Scott Bogulski
was indicted this week
on multiple charges
related to the theft of
two trailers, one belong
ing to the Cattlemen’s
Association in Macon
and one belonging
to a church in
Centerville.
A Monroe County
Grand Jury
reached the indict
ments on Monday
and Tuesday after
hearing evidence
from Monroe
County sheriffs
investigators.
The indictments mean
that accusations lodged
against Bogulski from
late February of steal
ing a trailer from the
Cattleman’s Association
and in April of selling
a trailer stolen from a
Centerville church can
go forward in court.
Assistant district
attorney Paul Hemmann
said the grand jury’s
decisions won’t be made
public until later this
week but he feels confi
dent they indicted both
cases. Out of 100 cases
presented on Monday
and Tuesday, the grand
jury only returned one
no bill that won’t be
indicted.
Bogulski, 40, was
originally arrested Feb.
19 by Monroe deputies
and charged with receiv
ing the enclosed trailer
stolen from the Georgia
Cattlemen’s Association
office in Bibb County.
The trailer contained a
GPS tracker and author
ities said they used
it to locate the trailer
at Bogulski’s home in
Forsyth. He was
also charged was
illegally putting
the wrong tag on
the stolen trail
er. Additionally,
Bibb County
charged him
with the theft in
Macon.
Then on April
12, for the fourth time
in two months, Bogulski
was arrested again
after evidence arose
that Bogulski removed
a VIN number from
a stolen trailer before
selling it to a Boxankle
Drive resident. The
Monroe County Sheriffs
Office circulated photos
of the enclosed trailer
on April 9 after John
Scheu of 4640 Boxankle
Road called deputies to
verify the VIN number
on the trailer he had
bought. Cpl. Luther
Williams of the Monroe
County Sheriffs Office
was dispatched to
Scheu’s home April 9
after Scheu called for
help in registering his
trailer. Upon arrival,
Williams noted that the
VIN numbers had been
scratched off the trailer.
Suspicious, Williams
called for Inv. Lawson
Bittick to determine
what had happened.
Bittick posted photos
of the trailer to the
sheriffs office Facebook
page asking the public
if they could identify the
trailer as theirs. Bittick
said he got about 60
calls, but said he finally
contacted Westside
Baptist Church in
Centerville where pastor
Chuck Lewis was able
to describe identifying
stickers on the trailer.
Church secretary Vicki
Sutton said the church
used the trailer for trips
and ministry, such as
giving away backpacks
to needy schoolchildren.
She said they had sent
out a church-wide email
when it went missing in
January thinking that
a church member may
have borrowed it. When
no one responded, they
reported it missing to
Centerville police.
The trailer was
returned to the church,
which has about 200
members.
Bogulski was released
on bond. Magistrate
Judge Buck Wilder could
not revoke Bogulski’s
bond from a previous
arrest in March. That’s
because he was accused
of crimes that happened
before the March bond
was set, and therefore
were not bond viola
tions.
Bogulski also faces
additional charges in
Jasper and Bibb coun
ties related to trailer
thefts. The Bibb County
case was on a trial
calendar but has been
continued, according to
assistant district attor
ney Shelley Milton.
In March, Bogulski
was charged with steal
ing a Monticello High
School band trailer in
Jasper County. The
Jasper County case has
not yet gone to a grand
jury, according to the
district attorney there.
Bogulski has two prior
theft convictions, the
earliest one having been
removed from his record
as he pled under the
first-offender program.
He gained notoriety
through his acerbic
posts on his Facebook
page Forsyth-Monroe
County Nuze. Shortly
after bonding out of jail,
he posted there on April
14: “Sure has been a
bumpy ride lately. I’m
sure that when it’s over
it won’t be quite the
story that’s been given.
Sooner or later press
releases and play by
play give way to facts.”
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Jones County 1351
Crawford Co. 1335
Upson-Lee High 1323
Griffin High 1317
Rutland High 1266
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