From Bryan County Sheriff’s Office reports:

Traffic offenses, more: Deputies were performing road checks on Highway 204 in Ellabell around 11 p.m. June 26 when a Ford F250 “came through and refused to stop, almost hitting (a BCSO deputy).”

Deputies gave chase and the east-bound pickup reached speeds as high as 90 mph on the two-lane road, and the driver also reportedly tried to force a deputy’s car off the road. At some point near Pine Barren Loop the driver then threw a clear bag out of the pickup, and “still at speeds of 90 mph plus and going across Morgan’s Bridge he went into oncoming traffic, almost striking another vehicle.”

They got to Chatham County and the pickup driver again tried to force the deputy off the road, and the deputy got permission to perform the PIT maneuver to force the pickup to stop. He got permission and did so, and “driver was ejected and found to be laying near the vehicle.”

EMS was called as well as a Georgia State Patrol Trooper. The driver, a 50-year-old Savannah man, is charged with fleeing, operating a motor vehicle without a valid license plate, failure to maintain lane, DUI multiple substances, suspended license, failure to secure load and speeding.

DUI, more: A deputy patrolling on Highway 204 around 2 a.m. June 25 reported he saw a car approach his patrol car “very fast,” and “then continued to follow (his) patrol vehicle very close to the point where I could no longer see the headlights in (the) rearview mirror.”

The deputy turned on his emergency lights, pulled over to let the car pass and then pulled it over.

The driver, a 35-year-old woman, “apologized for her driving habits,” then said she’d been in a fight in Chatham County, “which she did not wish to speak about.” The deputy noted she smelled of alcohol and the driver, who has a Brooklet address, said she’d last had a drink about an hour ago.

She reportedly blew a .160 and was arrested for DUI and tailgating.

Suspicious activity: Deputies were sent to a Richmond Hill address around 6 p.m. June 26 “in reference to a possible person with a gun.”

There, a complainant said she was caregiver to the home’s residents and they’d “gone through a large amount of medication and alcohol and that the husband thought the wife was an intruder and had gotten a shotgun out to defend himself.

The complainant/ caregiver said the gun was taken from the man and was going to try and get them more help from the Department of Adult Services.

Deputies were later sent back to the same house to check on the complainant/ caregiver because she didn’t answer her phone. A man who answered the door said “the caregiver had left the house earlier and he did not know where she went.”

From Richmond Hill Police Department reports:

 Found weapon: A man reported June 25 he was stopped at Waybridge Way waiting to turn onto Harris Trail when his grandson “noticed a holster on the

side of the road.”

The two got out and found a semi-automatic pistol laying the ditch nearby, and called police.

The reporting officer noted the Taurus PT145 PRO was laying in the ditch along with a nylon holster, a broken metal magazine and “a total of 3 rounds of .45 caliber full metal jacket ammo, one of which was loaded in the

chamber.”

The deputy also reported it appeared the ground

was either wet when the gun went into the ditch or that it had rained since, and he “gathered all parts … and secured them in (his) trunk until I could log the firearm at the police department,” where it was secured until police could locate an owner.

Matter of record: Around midnight on June 25 a man reported someone broke into his Casey Drive apartment and broke his TV. Apparently it was him.

When an officer arrived, the 58-year-old man “stated he had drank a bottle of rum and that it could have possibly been him that broke the TV. (He) had scratches on his hands with dried blood that would indicate that he broke the TV. (The officer) also observed blood on (the man’s) TV stand and the wall behind the TV.”

The officer told the man he believed he broke the TV, “however he insisted” on a report, so he got one.

Matter of record: Police were sent to the intersection of highways 144 and 17 around 9:30 p.m. June 25 “in reference to a vehicle stuck on the concrete median.”

The driver “advised she was traveling north on (17) and accidentally got her vehicle stuck on the median.” A wrecker was called and got the pickup off the median, the report said.

Matter of record: Police were called to a gas station on Harris Trail around 9 a.m. June 24 regarding a U-Haul abandoned at the pump,” and it was found “running and the doors were locked, with no one

around the vehicle.”

The reporting officer contacted U-Haul’s area field manager, who said the vehicle was rented in Leesburg, Ga., on April 14 and was supposed to be returned the same day but wasn’t. She had the contact information about the renters. The officer then called the manager of the U-Haul rental place in Leesburg, and “he told me that they had been looking for the vehicle for two

months.”

The U-Haul was towed to a U-Haul place in Savannah and “prosecution will be left up to U-Haul in Lee County,” the report

said.

From Richmond Hill Police Department reports:

 Found weapon: A man reported June 25 he was stopped at Waybridge Way waiting to turn onto Harris Trail when his grandson “noticed a holster on the side of the road.”

The two got out and found a semi-automatic pistol laying the ditch nearby, and called police.

The reporting officer noted the Taurus PT145 PRO was laying in the ditch along with a nylon holster, a broken metal magazine and “a total of 3 rounds of .45 caliber full metal jacket ammo, one of which was loaded in the chamber.”

The deputy also reported it appeared the ground was either wet when the gun went into the ditch or that it had rained since, and he “gathered all parts … and secured them in (his) trunk until I could log the firearm at the police department,” where it was secured until police could locate an owner.

Matter of record: Around midnight on June 25 a man reported someone broke into his Casey Drive apartment and broke his TV. Apparently it was him.

When an officer arrived, the 58-year-old man “stated he had drank a bottle of rum and that it could have possibly been him that broke the TV. (He) had scratches on his hands with dried blood that would indicate that he broke the TV. (The officer) also observed blood on (the man’s) TV stand and the wall behind the TV.”

The officer told the man he believed he broke the TV, “however he insisted” on a report, so he got one.

Matter of record: Police were sent to the intersection of highways 144 and 17 around 9:30 p.m. June 25 “in reference to a vehicle stuck on the concrete median.”

The driver “advised she was traveling north on (17) and accidentally got her vehicle stuck on the median.” A wrecker was called and got the pickup off the median, the report said.

Matter of record: Police were called to a gas station on Harris Trail around 9 a.m. June 24 regarding a U-Haul abandoned at the pump,” and it was found “running and the doors were locked, with no one around the vehicle.”

The reporting officer contacted U-Haul’s area field manager, who said the vehicle was rented in Leesburg, Ga., on April 14 and was supposed to be returned the same day but wasn’t. She had the contact information about the renters. The officer then called the manager of the U-Haul rental place in Leesburg, and “he told me that they had been looking for the vehicle for two months.”

The U-Haul was towed to a U-Haul place in Savannah and “prosecution will be left up to U-Haul in Lee County,” the report said.