West Chatham sees a mix in crime trends
While Savannah-Chatham police have had their hands full tackling crime and dealing with critics who say it’s out of control, west Chatham County experienced a mix in crime trends in 2012.Pooler, one of...
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Local drug agents and federal probation officers Tuesday morning arrested a Savannah man and his two sons after an investigation determined they’d been distributing controlled substances.The...
View ArticleTrial begins in Pink House standoff, Savannah robbery
Opening statements were scheduled today for the trial of two men in the May abduction and robbery that paralyzed downtown Savannah and the Olde Pink House Restaurant.Kevin Dale Brooks, 27, and Brian...
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A convicted sex offender accused of cutting his ankle monitor and fleeing Chatham County in November was captured Tuesday in San Francisco.Police there stopped 30-year-old Christopher Aaron Walter...
View ArticleUPDATE: Jurors to return Monday for closing arguments in Pink House standoff
Evidence closed Friday afternoon in the case of the two men charged with the May 16-17 robbery and abduction that ended at the Olde Pink House.Chatham County Superior Court Judge Michael Karpf directed...
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The Effingham County Sheriff’s Office traveled into Screven County Wednesday and arrested a man for manufacturing methamphetamine at his residence near Newington. Sheriff’s spokesman David Ehsanipoor...
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Two people were killed and three others injured in a multi-vehicle wreck that crippled traffic throughout much of Savannah Friday afternoon.Savannah-Chatham police shut down Interstate 516 between...
View ArticleBoy, 13, injured in southside Savannah shooting
Savannah-Chatham police are investigating a shooting on Savannah’s southside that injured a 13-year-old Pooler boy early Saturday morning.Southside Precinct patrol officers responded to a shots fired...
View Article13-year-old shot in Savannah's Windsor Forest neighborhood
A 13-year-old was shot while he slept on the couch in his grandmother’s Windsor Forest home early Saturday morning.Just before 2:15 a.m., gunshots were fired into the single-story house in the 12400...
View ArticleDoctor, five others named in Garden City pill mill scheme
A medical doctor from Waycross and five others have been charged in a federal indictment with conspiring to traffic in oxycodone, hydrocodone and other drugs through a purported pain clinic known as...
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Savannah-Chatham police Wednesday arrested a man for the Nov. 14 double shooting that killed a 25-year-old and left his brother in critical condition.Christopher Alexander Johnson, 24, of a Garrard...
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Due to the recent rains, the Ogeechee River has risen and is currently at 12.22 feet and it’s predicted the river will crest at 12.8 feet on Sunday, which is considered a moderate flooding potential....
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Police seek west Savannah Dollar General robbers
Savannah-Chatham police are asking for the public’s help in identifying two suspects in a west Savannah armed robbery over the weekend.A gunman and his accomplice were caught on surveillance camera...
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Savannah man pleads guilty in Pooler murder
The man charged in the 2012 murder at a Pooler business pleaded guilty to that and other crimes Friday.Christopher Jesse Lema, 24, pleaded guilty to felony murder, false imprisonment, simple battery...
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Red Cross assisting 10 families displaced in southside fire Ten families were displaced late Thursday evening after a fire tore through several southside Savannah apartments.All eight apartments in a...
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Port Wentworth man pleads guilty in 2011 stabbing death
An apologetic Kenneth Edward Sanders on Tuesday pleaded guilty to murder in exchange for a life prison sentence with the possibility of parole for stabbing his wife to death in 2011 in front of her...
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Responding to a directive for Savannah-Chatham police officers to address any neighborhood issues in their areas of responsibility, Southside Precinct Commander Capt. Dean Fagerstrom took it upon...
View ArticleSix Savannah residents indicted in underage sex slave ring
Six people were indicted on Wednesday on charges of trafficking of persons for sexual servitude involving several juveniles they allegedly used for sex.Shawn Jamele Bragg, 21; Colby Laquan Bragg, 20;...
View Article10 Savannah juveniles deny roles in gang-based school bus attack
Attorneys for 10 teenagers on Wednesday denied allegations their clients participated in what prosecutors contend was a gang-based attack on a 13-year-old student last month during a school bus ride...
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Agents seek wanted local heroin dealer
The Chatham-Savannah Counter Narcotics Team is asking for the public’s help locating a wanted Savannah man.Agents are looking for 51-year-old Calvin Herman Lovett, said Gene Harley, CNT spokesman....
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