From Bryan County Sheriff’s Office reports:

Matter of record: A deputy was sent to a Clarktown Road address around 11 a.m. Feb. 16 where the complainant said she thinks her neighbor “is placing pine cones in her yard deliberately to aggravate.”

The 61-year-old woman told the deputy “she picked up a bunch of these pine cones the day before and burned them and today a large amount are found in the same location”

She told the deputy the pine cones weren’t coming nearby trees and were the handiwork of her neighbor.

“(She) stated she has not seen him doing it just suspects him of doing it.”

Matter of record: A man who said he was dispatched Feb. 15 to take gas to a stranded motorist called 911 after the woman threw his gas can in the road and damaged it.

The man told deputies he’d been dispatched by an AAA assist service to provide gas to a woman who was stranded at Highway 17 and Daniel Siding Road. “(He) then said that while attempting to fill up (the woman’s) (she) started to argue with (him) and ended up taking the gas can and throwing it in the roadway.”

The man said all he wanted was his money for the gas can.

The deputy then talked to the woman, who said she called AAA when she ran out of gas and was told help would arrive at 9:45 a.m.  The woman said she was running late for work and after no one showed up she got  in contact with the man, who when he arrived “did  not try to talk to her and went to try and put gas in her vehicle, but was struggling to do so.”

The woman said she “attempted to help (the man) but said that he refused to let her try and fill vehicle up and the two began to verbally argue and when (she) had control of the gas can, threw it in the roadway.”

She agreed to pay the man for the gas can and everybody went to the gas station on Clarktown Road where that transaction was accomplished with the help of the deputy. Along the way it was discovered the woman had a warrant out for probation violation in Liberty County, but they didn’t want her picked up.

Matter of record: A deputy was sent out to an Ellabell cul-de-sac around 6 p.m. Feb. 15 regarding “a black truck being parked on the complainant’s property and refusing to move.”

The complainant told the deputy people always park on his property, which causes the ditch to erode and doesn’t let water drain. He said neighbors also park a semi on the outskirts of the cul-de-sac, and over time it has worn out the ditch and causes water to flood back on his property.

The complainant said he recently parked one of his vehicles in the spot where the semi usually parked, and the neighbors “in retaliation” parked the black truck in front of his vehicle.

The complainant then showed the deputy a survey of the residences on the road he got the county. It showed the road is privately owned by the subdivision builder, and the complainant said the cul-de-sac ditch near his property was the only one that has been damaged.

The deputy noted “it was basically learned anyone could park in or on the cul-de-sac and would not be trespassing on anyone’s property, but the roadway is mutually used as an access to their residences, so common courtesy is expected.”

The deputy told the complainant there wasn’t much he could use and that it would take civil action to resolve the matter. As he left, the neighbors with the semi arrived. “After a few unpleasantries (were spoken between the two wives), (the deputy) was able to civilize the situation so maybe some resolution could be obtained. After the two ladies apologized to each other it was agreed (the neighbor) would no longer park his semi truck so close to the ditch.”
It was also learned the neighbors were moving in the next two weeks and would be no longer parking there at all, the report said.

Juvenile complaint: Deputies were called around 10:30 p.m. Feb. 16 to check on a 17-year girl Richmond Hill girl whose mother was worried she was possibly high on meth because the girl was acting aggressively. Deputies found meth in the teen’s purse as well as glass pipes and EMS was called to check and see if she was OK. She was.  No charges were filed “as the mother asked if she could attempt to get her daughter some help.”

In addition, “it was found that prior to leaving that the meth was provided to the (girl) by her grandmother who lives in Effingham County.” The case was forwarded to ECSO.

 Compiled by Jeff Whitten