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Chatham County Sherrif's Office lieutenant accused of child molestation
A Chatham County Sherrif’s Office lieutenant was arrested late Friday and has been charged with aggravated child molestation.Chatham County Sheriff’s Office deputies arrested Lt. Richard Adam “Rick”...
View ArticleOne dead, one injured in Savannah Christmas Eve shooting
A double shooting on Savannah’s westside on Christmas Eve killed a man and hospitalized a woman.Michael John Polite, 38, and a 44-year-old woman were shot about 9:30 p.m. near their residence in the...
View ArticleOne injured in West Savannah drive-by shooting
A man was hospitalized Saturday evening after he was shot in West Savannah.Savannah-Chatham police spokesman Julian Miller said the man, in his 20s, was outside a house on Portland Street, just off...
View ArticlePolice: Savannah visitors struck by car downtown suffer serious injuries
Police say two visitors from North Carolina suffered serious injuries Saturday evening after the pair walked in front of a moving car on Martin Luther King Jr. Boulevard in downtown Savannah.Accident...
View ArticleElderly man walking dog in Landings struck by SUV
A 74-year-old man suffered serious injuries Monday morning when he was struck by an SUV in the Landings subdivision.Luis Venegas was transported to Memorial University Medical Center after the 8:54...
View ArticleCash reward increased for info in 2010 Savannah slaying
An anonymous $5,000 donation was added last week to a reward fund for information in the 2010 slaying of a man at a Savannah ATM.Anthony Minor was shot to death while using an ATM near Bank of America...
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Police seek Savannah man in Christmas slaying
Police are asking for the public’s help locating a Savannah man wanted in connection with a recent slaying.Maurice Jamar Bentley, 31, is sought for the Christmas Eve slaying of Michael John Polite,...
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Four fires set at Pooler hotel ruled arsons, suspects sought
A series of fires Monday and Tuesday at a Pooler hotel have been ruled arson and local and state investigators are searching for a suspect.Pooler police, firefighters and Georgia fire marshals remained...
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Two men suffered serious injuries in separate automobile accidents in Savannah late New Year’s Eve and early Wednesday. One of the men was run over by a minivan being backed into a parking spot, police...
View ArticleWoman crossing White Bluff Road struck by vehicle
Woman struck crossing White Bluff Road A woman was struck by a vehicle Thursday night while walking across White Bluff Road near the Oglethorpe Mall.Police say Melody Johnson walked into the path of a...
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Five suspects were arrested Friday afternoon and a sixth is being sought after Central Precinct Tactical Investigation Unit and Crime Suppression Unit officers raided a shot house on Barnard Street...
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Chatham County homicides up in 2013
Timothy Roberts had been back in Savannah less than a year when he was shot to death in October about a block from his childhood home in the city’s Cuyler-Brownville neighborhood.Roberts, 37, had spent...
View ArticleCrimeStoppers: Tips helped solve 85 Savannah-area cases in 2013
Nearly 1,500 calls to CrimeStoppers last year helped solve 85 criminal cases in the Savannah area, the agency announced Monday.Local CrimeStoppers spokeswoman Catherine Neal said the agency received...
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Savannah shooting leaves 1 arrested, 1 in hospital
Detectives have a suspect in custody and victim in a hospital but continue to sort out the details of a shooting that left one man in critical condition Sunday afternoon.A 23-year-old man was...
View ArticleRemains found in Ogeechee River last month tentatively ID'd as missing Garden...
The human remains found by fishermen in the Ogeechee River on Dec. 20 have been tentatively identified as those of a Garden City man missing since November.The remains were matched at the Georgia...
View ArticleSavannah man hospitalized after crashing stolen car
Police say a Savannah man was injured when he crashed a stolen car Wednesday morning while attempting to avoid an officer who was not pursuing him. Ronald Antwan Grady, 30, of the 1400 block of East...
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Public safety summary
The human remains found by fishermen in the Ogeechee River on Dec. 20 have been tentatively identified as those of a Garden City man missing since November.The remains were matched at the Georgia...
View ArticleWoman shot on Savannah's southside
A woman was taken to a local hospital for treatment on Sunday afternoon after she was shot on Savannah’s southside, police said.The woman, whose injuries were not immediately believed to be life...
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Savannah woman charged with falsely reporting rape
A 22-year-old Savannah woman was charged with false report of a crime after she admitted to investigators she’d fabricated a report she’d been raped by two men.Kaleigh Wilson reported to...
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32 arrested in two-day Savannah-Chatham police operation
Robert Douglas Morgan chose the wrong night to try to run from the law.The 29-year-old passenger in a battered, blue-gray Oldsmobile ignored a police officer’s demand he stay in the vehicle Thursday...
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