MUG SHOTS: Chatham County warrant roundup nets 18 arrests
A multi-agency warrant sweep carried out Friday morning in Chatham County netted 18 arrests.The Chatham County deputies, U.S. marshals and the county probation office went to work early Friday to round...
View ArticleShooting, crash near downtown Savannah investigated
Police are investigating after a man was shot and then crashed a car into a hotel outbuilding near downtown Savannah early Friday morning.The man, 26, was found by police in a car that had overturned...
View ArticleVIDEO: Police search for Savannah restaurant robber
Savannah-Chatham police are searching for the person who robbed an east Savannah restaurant at gunpoint Tuesday night.A man wearing dark clothing entered Top China on the 4,400 block of Skidaway Road,...
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Police are investigating after a man was shot and then crashed a car into a hotel outbuilding near downtown Savannah early Friday morning.The man, 26, was found by police in a car that had overturned...
View ArticleBluffton man sentenced for conspiracy to smuggle guns, stolen cars
Roberto Barrero, 46, a naturalized American citizen originally from Bolivia, was sentenced last week by Senior Judge B. Avant Edenfield to 15 years in prison for his role in a far-reaching conspiracy...
View ArticleTeen pleads guilty in 2011 Pooler homicide
A 19-year-old man has pleaded guilty to his involvement in the September 2011 armed robbery and death of Timothy Moore in Pooler.As part of a negotiated plea by the state, Shareif Bernard Palmer...
View ArticleCrash kills Rincon man fleeing police
A Rincon man was killed in a motorcycle crash Wednesday evening while trying to elude police.Rincon Police Chief Phillip Scholl said Robert Sciria, 32, was killed after an officer attempted a traffic...
View Article2 charged with sexual exploitation of children
The Effingham County Sheriff’s Office has arrested two men on unrelated child pornography charges.Donald Snyder, 61, of Soperton was arrested following an investigation that began two weeks ago.The...
View ArticlePolice charge in Savannah marble-launching vandalism spree
Police say four people face felony charges after a vandalism spree involving paint ball guns and marbles in the Savannah area that damaged dozens of businesses, houses, vehicles and a church over two...
View ArticlePolice charge 4 in Savannah marble-shooting vandalism spree
Public safety summaryPolice say four people face felony charges after a vandalism spree involving paintball guns and marbles in the Savannah area that damaged dozens of businesses, houses, vehicles and...
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A man was killed Tuesday night in a single-vehicle wreck at The Landings on Skidaway Island.Firefighters and medics arrived shortly before 9 p.m. to find a convertible Chrysler compact car on its side...
View ArticleMan charged in Feb. 1 Savannah shooting
A Savannah man has been arrested for a Feb. 1 shooting in the city’s Victory Heights neighborhood.Violent crimes detectives on Wednesday charged King Jebrel Coney, 21, with aggravated assault in...
View ArticleMother charged after 'soaking wet, shivering' child found wandering in Port...
A woman was arrested after her 4-year-old daughter was found wandering by herself cold and soaking wet through Port Wentworth’s Newport subdivision Thursday afternoon.Lakiesha Lynn Medsker, 36, has...
View ArticleUPDATE: Man killed in Savannah was former high school basketball standout
A former Jenkins High basketball standout was shot to death on Savannah’s eastside early Friday morning.Police responding to a shooting call about 2:14 a.m. in Avondale found Rashaad Spann wounded in a...
View ArticlePOLICE SKETCH: Detectives look for Savannah sex assault suspect
Police are asking for the public’s help identifying a man they say robbed a woman at a Savannah hospital Sunday morning then sexually assaulted her.The Savannah-Chatham police department has released...
View ArticlePolice looking for suspect in West Chatham thefts
Savannah-Chatham police are searching for the person responsible for a residential vehicle theft tied to a Pooler purse snatching.Just after 4:30 p.m. Feb. 6, metro police responded to an auto theft at...
View ArticlePolice release sketch of Savannah sex assault suspect
Police are asking for the public’s help identifying a man they say robbed a woman at a Savannah hospital Sunday morning then sexually assaulted her. The Savannah-Chatham police department has released...
View ArticlePolice investigate early morning Savannah shooting
Police are investigating the early Saturday morning shooting of a man in Savannah’s Metropolitan neighborhood.The 31-year-old man told officers he was walking on West 33rd Street near Montgomery Street...
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An Effingham County pastor died Saturday afternoon when the truck he was driving veered off a South Carolina highway and into a tree, confirmed the Jasper County, S.C., Coroner’s Office. Jeffrey...
View ArticleUPDATE: Man faces arson, other charges in Sunday Chatham County bus barn fire
Garden City police have charged a man found on the property where three school buses were damaged in a fire Sunday night with arson and other crimes.Leonard Townsend, 24, was arrested at the scene of...
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