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THE BANKS COUNTY NEWS • THE COMMERCE NEWS
WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 5, 2016
lackson County Sheriffs Office incidents - East and North zones
'Device' found on school bus proves harmless
East Jackson Middle School personnel
called a Jackson County deputy in after find
ing a “suspicious” device on a school bus.
The device appeared to be a battery
wrapped in blue plastic with wiring and a
charging device attached. The bus shop was
supposed to send camera footage from the
bus in the hope of identifying a suspect.
Sheriff Janis Mangum said the device
turned out to be a “homemade tattoo gun”
rather than any kind of explosive device or
weapon.
It was unclear whether the bus video iden
tified the owner of the device, but Mang
um confirmed that her office would file no
charges in the case.
Other Incidents
Among the other incidents to which Jack-
son County deputies recently responded in
the JCSO C and D zones are:
Commerce Area
•simple assault reported at East Jackson
Comprehensive High School by two students
who had broken off a relationship, but the boy
got mad and grabbed the girl by the throat.
• hit-and-mn reported at a Hwy. 334 loca
tion by a man who said someone damaged
his vehicle’s bumper and quarter panel while
he was at work. Security footage will be made
available.
• damage to a mailbox on Mt. Olive Road,
apparently by a vehicle.
• a suspicious vehicle driving very slowly
up and down Sandy Creek Road and Wheeler
Cemetery Road. A deputy could not locate the
vehicle.
• a cardiac arrest at a Barber Road address.
The victim was deceased.
•shoplifting at the Tommy Hilfiger outlet
store at the Tanger Outlets where four Hispan
ic individuals filled several bags with merchan
dise and left, without setting off an alarm.
•shoplifting reported at the Nike outlet
store in the Tanger outlets where a man and
woman stole a pair of pants valued at $60, but
store personnel could not immediately deter
mine what else they stole.
•shoplifting from the Fossil store at the Tan
ger Outlets where store personnel said a man
grabbed four Smart Watches valued at $880 and
ran out. Security flagged down the responding
deputy to report shoplifting at another outlet
store that did not wish to have a report made.
The description of the suspect was similar and
security got the tag number of the vehicle.
•hit-and-mn on U.S. 441 North where a
woman said a delivery truck for Mountain
Fresh Creamery sideswiped her vehicle.
•a suspicious vehicle in a cul-de-sac on
Oconee Lane. It turned out to be a man and
a woman “making out.” The deputy issued a
warning for loitering and criminal trespass.
• damage to a mailbox on Sheep Pasture
Road where the deputy’s passenger-side mir
ror hit a curbside garbage container. The offi
cer said the property owner reported similar
problems in the past when the garbage com
pany left the container too close to the road.
• $200 missing from the safe at East Jack-
son Middle School. A check of the paperwork
and bank transactions showed no mistakes,
and several people have access to the safe.
• a suspicious and empty vehicle in the East
Jackson Comprehensive High School parking
lot at about 11 p.m.
• a motor vehicle accident on U.S. 441 at
W.W. Gary Road where a vehicle traveling
at 25 miles per hour hit a moped with no
reflectors, dim lights and no tag driven by
a juvenile. The driver saw the moped at the
last minute and locked down his brakes, but
his vehicle hit the rear of the moped. The
juvenile was knocked off the moped and was
bleeding from his head, left ear and arms, but
was coherent.
•theft by taking at a Dan Waters Road
address where someone broke into a box trail
er and stole numerous tools valued at $5,500.
Evidence at the scene suggested that the thief
might have intended to take the whole trailer.
•simple assault at EJCHS where a stu
dent refused to get off the bus when the
bus driver ordered him off for cursing at the
driver. When the deputy arrived, the boy
denied cursing, then attempted to walk into
a high-traffic area, forcing the deputy to block
his way. When the deputy grabbed the boy by
the wrist and walked him out of the parking
lot, the boy said, “I’ll knock you out,” and hit
the deputy in the chest. He then stmck the
deputy’s car several times, but did no damage.
•terroristic threats and acts at EJCHS
where an eighth-grader said in the presence
of an assistant principal: “I’ll slap that bitch,”
referring to the assistant principal. When the
assistant principal questioned the student,
he told her “It’s not a threat, it’s a promise.”
Another student confirmed that he’d told her
“I am going to slap that bitch.” The boy is
charged with terroristic threats and acts and
dismption of a school.
•sexual battery alleged at EJMS where
“nine or more” females said a male student
touched them inappropriately and made sex
ual comments to them. According to the
incident report, the student admitted to an
administrator that, “Yeah, I did it.”
• suspicious activity at an Old Airport Road
residence where two males advised a resident
that they were with All American Bondsmen
and were there to search his house for a
woman. The deputy told the complainant
that the bondsmen had a right to be there if
they believed that the woman, who had two
active failure-to-appear warrants, was present,
but the complainant and a friend insisted that
they had no right to be there without a war
rant. Jackson County deputies searched the
house for the bondsmen, but did not locate
the suspect.
Maysville Area
• a report of a Ford Explorer stolen from
a Red Oak Road man, possibly by the com
plainant’s son. The complainant was in the
process of buying the vehicle, said nobody
had permission to take it and wished to press
charges against whoever took it.
• a juvenile complaint on Hickory Way
where a woman and a juvenile got into
an argument because she wanted to sell a
dirt bike the boy claimed was his. The inci
dent turned violent, with the boy, another
juvenile and the mother — who the deputy
said was intoxicated when he arrived —
exchanging kicks and blows. The officer
wound up warning the woman about disor
derly conduct. The boy’s father said none
of what the other witnesses and victims
stated was true.
• a burglary on Shady Lane Court where on
Sept. 22 someone entered through a window
on the back porch, used a key hidden on top
of a light fixture to enter the residence and
stole $40 in loose change on the bathroom
sink. The thief returned the next day and stole
another $40 from the sink.
•credit card fraud reported by a Unity
Church Circle woman who said her bank
reported that someone used her credit card at
a hookah lounge and tried to use it at La Vie
Hookah & Bistro, also in Atlanta.
•a report of shots fired in the area of
Horseshoe Bend. The deputy could find no
one shooting, but another deputy said he’d
responded to the area for a similar report and
found people shooting in a safe manner.
• entering an auto at Hurricane Shoals Park
where two women said they left their purses
in the unlocked vehicle with the windows
down and when they returned found their
wallets removed. Both lost their driver’s licens
es, multiple credit and EBT cards and Social
Security cards.
• theft by taking on Ridgeway Church Road
where two women said a male relative came
to visit and complained that he was out of
medicine and needed pills. After the man left,
one of the women noticed her purse and wal
let open and an envelope containing $750 in
cash was missing. The victim’s daughter said
that the victim’s nephew ran up to his (the
nephew’s wife) and told her they had to leave.
He began pushing his wife out the front door,
and the two rushed to the car and departed.
• a verbal dispute at a Hickory Way location
where the complaint said his neighbor yelled
at him about the complainant’s dogs killing
one of the man’s chickens. The complainant
said his dogs were just puppies and could not
have killed the chicken. The neighbor said the
complainant cursed at him.
•a report from a Maysville man that he
lost his wallet containing a driver’s license,
weapons carry permit, credit and debit cards
and $200 in cash at a Walmart in Hall County.
• a dispute on Highland Way where a com
plainant said her ex-boyfriend kept coming to
her house and harassing her. The deputy told
her about temporary protective orders.
•permitting livestock to run at large on
Unity Church Road where three horses
showed up Dec. 25 on the complainant’s
property. The complainant helped return the
horses, but shortly thereafter they returned to
his property. Since that time, the complainant
has been caring for the animals, which have
depleted his pasture, and he was unable to
reach the owner of the horses. The deputy
was also unable to find the owner and report
ed that an agent of the Georgia Department
of Agriculture suggested that the complainant
take a copy of the report to the Magistrate
Court to attempt to obtain ownership of the
animals, given the length of time he’s cared
for them.
Nicholson Area
•a dog bite at a Sanford Drive address
where a woman said she was on her porch
when a neighbor’s dog ran into the yard, onto
the porch and tried to attack her dog. The
victim grabbed her dog and the other dog bit
her in the arm. The victim opted not to press
charges, telling the deputy the dog that bit her
is usually friendly.
• a dispute on Hunters Ridge Road between
a woman who let another woman borrow her
car and the woman who took it and did not
return for several hours.
• a warning issued to two young men after
an officer stopped them on U.S. 441 for throw
ing something out the window. The officer
smelled marijuana, the boys admitted they’d
smoked marijuana that date and the officer
found a very small amount in the vehicle.
He warned the l&year-olds of the dangers of
drug use.
• a report from a woman that her boyfriend,
who stole her vehicle in North Carolina, was
supposed to meet her on Woodpecker Lane
so he could show her where the vehicle was
in North Carolina, but he was not there when
she arrived.
• an argument between a man and his wife
on Lake Yamacutah Drive during which the
woman grabbed the man around the neck,
leaving visible marks. The man said the two
were still married, but she’d been gone for
several months before coming back three
weeks ago.
•a custody dispute on Mulberry Lane
where a man said that when his 1-yearold
child comes to visit he has bruises, multiple
bug bites and one time a black eye.
•theft by taking on Cabin Creek Drive
where someone stole a 32-inch Samsung
TV. The same residence was the location for
another theft report by a woman who said she
thinks her son stole her Sky Device valued at
$150. The son denied taking the device. The
same address was the location of another
dispute in which someone alleged there was a
gun, but no physical violence occurred.
•a dispute on James Maxwell Road
between a tenant and a landlord. The deputy
told them it was a civil matter.
•a verbal dispute on Jefferson Drive
between two couples because one couple’s
daughter is bullying the other couple’s daugh
ter. One of the men accused the other man’s
wife of “shooting a bird” at his children and
supposedly said he was going to “whip (the
other man’s) a-.”
• a dispute on Pace Drive where a woman
said she invited a man to her home and he
wouldn’t leave.
•threats reported at a Mulberry Street
address where a man said that a woman told
him that another man was going to shoot the
complainant.
• a suspicious person on Jim David Road
where a woman said she saw someone with a
flashlight walking behind the house next door.
•theft by taking at the J&J Flea Market
where the victim said his surveillance system
recorded a white male and female taking 70
stainless steel rings worth $4.50 each, a dress
valued at $5, and a belt buckle worth $10. The
victim said that the security officer encoun
tered the subjects again and warned both of
them not to return. Both declined to provide
any identification.
• possible child abuse reported at the J&J
Flea Market where a deputy saw no sign of
any abuse.
• damage to property at the J&J Flea Market
where the complainant said he paid someone
at the flea market to install speakers in his
vehicle, but the speakers burned up due to
faulty wiring.
• a dispute at the J&J Flea Market when a
man got angry because a couple bought items
from a vendor before he had a chance to buy
them. The man cursed at the woman, whose
husband told him to stop, at which time he
threatened to “whoop” the complainant’s a-.
The man pointed to a pistol on his side and
advised the woman; “You don’t want me to
use this.” The deputy asked both parties to
leave.
•a dispute at a Peach Street address
between a man and his sister over money.
The man said he asked his sister for money
to buy food for their mother; the woman said
he’d been drinking and they argued because
he thought she kept their mother out too late.
The deputy left, only to be recalled to the
scene later, where the woman said her broth
er told her, “I oughta just kill you.”
• a burglary at a J.S. Williamson Court res
idence where a woman said someone stole
medications from her and her mother. She
gave the deputy the name of a suspect.
•suspicious activity on Jim David Road
where a man said he heard a sound like foot
steps on his roof. The officer found nothing
and noted that the roof was at least 10 feet off
the ground.
• assistance provided to a man who need
ed to remove a vehicle from a New Kings
Bridge Road location but whose wife had a
temporary protective order against him. The
officer stood by while the man removed the
vehicle.
• assistance to fire and rescue at a Watkins
Farm Road location where a juvenile and the
keys were locked in a vehicle.
• suspicious activity on Cabin Creek Drive
where a woman said a small passenger car
was driving up and down the road very slowly.
The deputy did not see the vehicle.
•a burglary on Old Kings Bridge Road
where a woman came home to find two TVs
and a desktop computer missing. She said
she gave a man she’d dated for three weeks
the keys to her house since his family kicked
him out and said he probably stole the items.
He left for South Carolina the day the items,
valued at $4,600, were stolen.
•violation of a temporary protective order
at a U.S. 441 address where a woman said a
man against whom she had a TPO tried to
contact her by phone. She recognized the
number and did not answer the call.
•criminal trespass at a J.S. Williamson
Road address where a woman said she came
home to find her front and rear doors open
and items strewn about the bedroom. She
said the back door had been locked, but the
front door may not have been. She said noth
ing appeared to be missing.
• a suspicious person at the Dollar General
Store, where a woman did not have enough
money to pay for her items. A store clerk
decided to pay the difference just to get the
woman out, but the woman then locked
her keys in the vehicle. After the woman got
the vehicle open, it would not start, but two
bystanders helped her get it started — after
which she turned it off. The deputy helped
her roll the vehicle away from the building
and took her to an address on Cabin Creek
Drive. He warned the woman that her driver’s
license was expired and she was not allowed
to drive the vehicle.
Center Area
• a suspicious vehicle on Waterford Place.
While the deputy was checking it, a man
walked out of the woods carrying fishing poles
and a large catfish. The deputy advised him to
get permission from property owners before
accessing the lake from their property.
•violation of the Georgia Controlled Sub
stances Act where during a traffic stop for a
cracked windshield, the driver produced a
small amount of marijuana. The officer did
not charge the driver, but he confiscated the
marijuana and a pipe.
Gillsville Area
• suspicious activity at a Harmony Church
Road address where a woman said she heard
someone turning the knob on the front door.
The officer observed that the complainant
seemed “highly paranoid” and appeared to
be “high on something.” The officer found no
sign anyone had been on the property.
• theft of a vehicle from a Harmony Church
Road woman while she was out of town. The
Hall County Sheriff’s Office called her and
advised that it had been abandoned in a drive
way. The woman had it towed to a friend’s
house for repairs to damage the thief caused.
Miscellaneous
In addition, deputies working the JCSO’s C
and D zones responded to 12 alarms, seven
reports of livestock (cows, horses and goats)
in the road and assisted motorists who locked
their keys in their vehicles and gave a number
of courtesy rides for various reasons.
