From Bryan County Sheriff ’s Office reports: 

Matter of record: Deputies were sent to a Richmond Hill address around 10:30 p.m. Feb. 21 regarding an argument. There, the 31-year-old complainant “stated that he had been recording his music all night and his mother wanted him to keep it down. (He) further stated that he went and knocked on his mother’s bedroom door and wanted her to take him home. When she declined, (he) called the Sheriff ’s Department.”

The man’s mother backed up his story, “with only minor details varying.”

A check of the man’s ID with dispatch “revealed that he had warrants from RHPD as well as Chatham County,” but neither agency wanted him at the moment.

Deputies gave him a ride home.

Theft, hit and run, driving without license: Deputies responded to an Ellabell address Feb. 26 where a female complainant said her golf cart was stolen the night before.

The next day, dispatchers said the complainant’s family found the golf cart and were “following it” and not long after that a dispatcher told deputies the golf cart and the vehicle following it were involved in an accident.

When deputies got to the accident location they found the golf cart sitting in the ditch on Pine Barren Road with a pickup and SUV parked alongside it.

The two men in the golf park had run into the woods after wrecking it, the report said, and the victims said they didn’t know the driver but ID’d the passenger as someone they’d gone to school with. Apparently, they first spotted the golf cart after “it crossed (Highway 204) from Black Creek Church Road … “ and they decided to follow as the “golf cart went down hunting trails “and at some point it hit the SUV approaching from the other side and driven by one of the witnesses, and then the driver of the pickup forced the golf cart into the ditch and that’s when the two occupants of the golf park “fled into the woods.”

At that point, deputies figured out the 22-year-old driver of the golf cart may’ve been involved in a domestic dispute earlier in the day, and showed his photo to the folks involved in the chase and were told he looked like the golf cart driver.

A check of the golf cart for evidence showed it had been hotwired, and deputies found and arrested the driver on Feb. 27, who said he’d been given the cart the night before but wouldn’t give a name.

He was charged with hit and run and driving without a license, according to a report which was nine pages long. There also was video of the wreck, according to the report.

DUI (drugs): Deputies were notified around 9:30 p.m. Feb. 25 of a possible intoxicated driver heading north on I-96 around the 71 mile marker in a white work truck with Michigan plates. A deputy then saw the truck “failing to maintain its lane) and conducted a traffic stop.

The driver, who had a South Carolina address, “had a bad slur and began to mumble,’ and “upon stepping out of the vehicle he had a sway,” the report said. The driver agreed to take a field sobriety test and allowed deputies to search his vehicle, and that led to the discovery of the drugs Buprenorphine and Nalozone as well as syringes and white powder in a rolled up $1 bill. The man also had a 9 millimeter pistol locked in the pickup and “two plastic containers of clean urine.”

He told deputies he planned to call his lawyer.

He was taken to Bryan County Jail and his truck was towed.

Noise complaint: Deputies were dispatched to a Richmond Hill address around 6 p.m. Feb. 22 where a complainant said a pickup had “been speeding up and down the road and rev the motor so the pipes would make a loud noise. She said her husband went to talk to him and he repeated the same type behavior in front of the offender’s house.”

Deputies went to the pickup owner’s house “and he said after it was done in front of his house he realized it wasn’t funny because he has small children that were inside the house. He said he is not going to repeat these actions.”

Deputies went back to the complainants’ home and “advised them of the outcome.”

DUI: Around 10 a.m. Feb. 23 a deputy patrolling in Ellabell spotted from a distance “a male subject walking around a red in color pickup truck,” and went to check it out.

As he got closer, the deputy saw the man (later ID’d as a 68-year-old Ellabell resident) “trying to use a bucket to free his stuck vehicle.”

“According to (the man) he was trying to turn around and his vehicle became stuck in the ditch,” and the man said he liked to ride dirt roads “where he could see different wild animals such as foxes, turkeys, etc.”

The man wasn’t easy to understand however, because his speech was slurred and he was “unsteady on his feet,” because, he said, “his left foot was uneven.”

“When speaking to (the man), he kept talking about how he was a ‘conservative,’ he had not been to church in a while, then he began talking about how hard of hearing he was and also blind. (He) also mentioned that he had back surgery too.

(He) was all over the place with different subjects as he rambled on.”

The deputy called a supervisor, and said the man’s behavior “resembled possible medical issues,” and noted at one point the man dropped to his knees and started crying.

The supervisor and the deputy then smelled alcohol in the pickup cab, and a preliminary breath test showed the man had been drinking. He was arrested and a check of his vehicle turned up two bottles of wine and “red liquid spots along the floorboard as well as the seating area where it appears the wine had leaked, possibly when (the man’s) vehicle ran into the ditch.”

The man was taken to jail and on the way “began making comments about his safety within the jail and how he would defend himself as need be,” the report said.

The man got a court date. He was described by the deputy as “wordy but cooperative through the whole incident.”

Mental evaluation: A Richmond Hill woman called 911 around 6 a.m. Feb. 18 to report a man drove up to her house in a Cadillac SUV was trying to get in. The man told deputies he thought he was in Hinesville. The man “showed no signs of alcohol impairment,” and deputies called EMS to check him out. Deputies also were able to contact the man’s mother, who said her son has a history of mental illness and wanted the SUV back.

She was told she’d have to come get it. He was taken to St. Joseph’s for a mental evaluation and there deputies learned he’d been there before for schizophrenia.