Crime Digest, Thursday, July 20, 2017 - The Union-Recorder

The following is information compiled from public records taken from reports of the Milledgeville Police Department and the Baldwin County Sheriff's Office. It is our policy to not disclose the names of victims. These reports do not reflect guilt or innocence. An “arrest” does not always indicate incarceration. The charges filed are noted in the narrative.

Milledgeville Police Department

Giving False Information

An officer was patrolling on North Jefferson Street shortly before 10 p.m. July 13 when a vehicle passed by with a broken taillight. The officer conducted a traffic stop on the vehicle and collected the names of the driver and her male passenger. Upon checking the name and date of birth given by the man in the Georgia Crime Information Center, the officer found no such combination and returned to the vehicle to verify his information. After the man insisted that the information he had given was correct and listed off several MPD officers that he knew, the officer checked the information again and found an alias for a man with multiple warrants from the Baldwin County Sheriff’s Office that was similar to the one he had given. The officer contacted the BCSO and requested a picture of the wanted man. Upon confirming that the picture received was of the man in the vehicle, he arrested him for his outstanding warrants and for giving false information to a law enforcement officer.

Theft by Taking

An officer met with a woman at her South Jefferson Street residence shortly after 10 p.m. July 13 in reference to a theft. The woman said someone had stolen her grandson’s Schwinn mountain bike from her front porch some time the previous night, and that she wished to file a report about the theft. Her daughter, the boy’s mother, said that an individual had asked her if the bike was for sale a few days before, but she did not think enough of it to take the bike off the porch. The grandmother said she wished to press charges if the thief was found.

-Compiled by Will Woolever

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