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Crime reports for Feb. 4

The following reports are from the Bryan County Sheriff's Department: Entering auto Jan. 17 - Around 1 p.m. an Ellabell man reported a Garmin GPS system missing from his vehicle at his home on Otterhole Branch Road. He told deputies he saw a man going through his vehicle and called authorities, but when they spoke to the man he said he was lost after being dropped off by a friend. Jan. 21 - Deputies responded ...

February 04, 2013 | Staff report | Public Safety

Crime reports for Jan. 30

The following reports are from the Bryan County Sheriff's Department: Entering auto Jan. 16 - Just after 9:30 p.m. deputies responded to White Street near Pembroke after a woman reported someone had gone through her vehicle. The woman said she was in her house when her brother said there were two subjects out by her vehicle, and when her son walked outside the two ran. Nothing was taken from the vehicle, but all four doors ...

January 30, 2013 | | Public Safety

Ellabell fires under investigation

The Georgia Forestry Commission is investigating two suspicious fires that started in open fields this week in Magnolia Creek subdivision in Ellabell.

January 28, 2013 | Lori Wynn Bryan County News | Public Safety

Numbering houses is easy as one, two, three

Can your home or business be found in case of an emergency? That's a question Bryan County Emergency Services is posing to all residents in Bryan County as they spread the word about the necessity of having numbers or letters on homes and businesses denoting their physical address. Fire Chief Freddy Howell said the easier it is to find a home, the quicker emergency personnel can help. "When people call us for an emergency they're ...

January 24, 2013 | Crissie Elrick Bryan County News | Public Safety

Crime reports for Jan. 23

The following reports are from the Bryan County Sheriff's Department: DUI Jan. 1 - Deputies stopped an Allenhurst woman around 1:30 a.m. on Highway 17 in Richmond Hill after she ran off the road twice. The woman smelled of alcohol but told deputies she'd had only one drink but ran off the road because she wasn't wearing her glasses and couldn't see very well at night. She failed field sobriety tests and was arrested. Jan. ...

January 23, 2013 | Staff report | Public Safety

SSU student killed driving into parking lot

SAVANNAH - Police in Savannah have identified a woman shot to death in her car as a 21-year-old Savannah State University student.

January 23, 2013 | Associated Press | Public Safety

Ellabell stabbing sends one to hospital, another to jail

An Ellabell man is being charged with aggravated assault after reportedly stabbing another man 27 times early Saturday morning.

January 23, 2013 | Crissie Elrick Bryan County News | Public Safety

Icy roads possible in north Georgia

ATLANTA - Forecasters warn that an arctic air mass combined with moisture approaching Georgia could set the stage for freezing rain and sleet for much of the state.

January 23, 2013 | Associated Press | Public Safety

Effingham teen drowns during wreck

RINCON - Authorities in Effingham County say a teen that died in a car accident drowned after being ejected from the vehicle.

January 18, 2013 | Associated Press | Public Safety

Indictments allege area sex trafficking ring

SAVANNAH - Federal authorities said Thursday they have uncovered an illegal sex trafficking network that forced women into prostitution and traded them like slaves between cities in Georgia, Florida and the Carolinas.

January 18, 2013 | By Russ Bynum Associated Press writer | Public Safety

Convicted killer says statements coerced

ATHENS - Police in coastal Georgia coerced statements from a man accused in the 2007 rape and slaying of a 6-year-old boy, and the trial court that handed him the death penalty made numerous errors, the man's defense attorney argued Wednesday before the Supreme Court of Georgia.

January 17, 2013 | By Kate Brumback Associated Press writer | Public Safety

Man convicted of killing Brunswick boy appeals

ATHENS - A Georgia man is appealing the convictions and death penalty he received for the 2007 rape and murder of a 6-year-old boy.

January 16, 2013 | Associated Press | Public Safety

Video shows men before stabbing, dismemberment

RINCON - Authorities say a Georgia man who was stabbed to death and his body dismembered was seen alive in a video surveillance tape from a South Carolina hotel on New Year's night.

January 16, 2013 | Associated Press | Public Safety

Violence sweeps nets 55 arrests

SAVANNAH - Authorities in Savannah say 55 people have been arrested in an initiative focused on curbing gun violence.

January 15, 2013 | Associated Press | Public Safety

Police: Missing man stabbed, dismembered

RINCON - Police say a man who had been reported missing was fatally stabbed before being dismembered.

January 15, 2013 | Associated Press | Public Safety

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