Wednesday, May 8, 2013
A television and power tools reported stolen from a home on Watson Springs Road Tuesday were recovered in Madison County. An arrest isn't a conviction.
Oconee County Sheriff's investigators have charged a Watkinsville man with the Tuesday burglary of a Watson Springs Road home. Sometime between 7:35 a.m. and 5:10 p.m., a 42-inch flatscreen television was taken from the house and an air compressor, a nail gun kit and a backpack blower were removed from a storage building area. The items are worth about $1,600. According to the incident report, there were no signs of forced entry. Investigators processed the scene and later recovered the stolen property at a location in Madison County. Around 9 p.m., Billy Joe Hanley, 33, of Moreland Drive, was booked into the Oconee County Jail on a burglary charge. Additional details surrounding the arrest weren't released. The investigation continues…
Wednesday, April 24, 2013
Cars and a window have been damaged over the last month.
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Wednesday, April 24
Residents of a home in the 1000 block of Brighton Lane say they suspect neighborhood children have been shooting an air rifle or BB gun at their property causing damage. Oconee County Sheriff's deputies took the report on April 21, and it's reportedly been happening for about a month. BBs struck a rearview mirror of one car, cratered the driver's door of another and struck a window at the front of the house on two separate occasions, according to the report. The residents also said they found a container of BBs at the edge of the woods across from their house. The case is listed as active.
Tuesday, April 23, 2013
At least five reports of entered autos were filed at the Oconee County Sheriff's Office since Thursday.
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Tuesday, April 23
Oconee County Sheriff's deputies investigated the following reports of entered autos April 18 -21:
Monday, April 22, 2013
Firearms, jewelry and electronics were among items stolen from local homes recently.
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Monday, April 22
Oconee County Sheriff's deputies are investigating several burglaries that were reported over the last week. On April 16, a resident of the 1000 block of Thornwell Court told deputies he arrived home around 3:50 p.m. to find someone had taken two rifles and a shotgun. An iPad 2, a flat-screen TV and a laptop computer were also missing. The total value of the items is estimated at $3,800. According to the incident report, it appeared that the burglar entered through an open garage door sometime between 7:15 that morning and the time the resident returned that afternoon. Also under investigation is the burglary of a Whitehead Road residence. In that case, a diamond ring and two televisions, collectively worth about $625, were taken between …
Friday, April 12, 2013
The man also told Oconee County Sheriff's deputies he thinks someone urinated on the front grill.
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Friday, April 12
An Oconee County Sheriff's deputy late Monday night met with a man at fire station 5 on Greensboro Highway in reference to a criminal trespass. The man showed the deputy a lewd drawing he found scribbled in the pollen on the hood of his truck and said it appeared someone had also urinated on the front grill. "There was something on the truck, but it was difficult to tell if it was urine because it was so dark outside," the deputy wrote in the report. There was no visible damage to the truck, and the complainant left after the deputy tried to advise him of the warrant process.
Tuesday, April 9, 2013
Electronics valued at $4,100 were taken from the residence in Oconee County, Ga.
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Tuesday, April 9
A resident of the 1200 block Castle Drive returned home Thursday, April 4, to find she'd been the victim of a burglary. Someone had entered the home through a side door visible from the street, according to a Sheriff's report. The break-in happened sometime between 7:30 a.m. and 5 p.m. that day. Three flat screen televisons were taken along with a Nintendo Wii, a Chromebook laptop and an iPad. Investigators are working on the case.
Friday, April 5, 2013
The suspect ran out of Bell's Wednesday before deputies arrived.
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Friday, April 5
An employee of Bell's Food Store on Hog Mountain Road told Oconee County Sheriff's deputies this week that he witnessed a man stuffing ribs from the meat counter into his pants. Deputies were called to the store just before 9 p.m. on April 3 but the suspect had already left and fled in a white Ford Ranger. The case is listed as active. On the same day around the same time across town at Walmart on Epps Bridge Parkway, a security guard called deputies after he says he witnessed another man attempt to steal a fountain drink and a small sack of chicken wings from the deli section of the store by placing it into a plastic bag. The food was worth about $5. In that case, a 23-year-old Lawrenceville man was arrested and charged with …
Tuesday, March 26, 2013
Police responded to a burglar alarm and found a window had been smashed at Watkinsville Service Center.
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Tuesday, March 26
Watkinsville Police last Thursday night shortly after 11 p.m. responded to a burglar alarm at Watkinsville Service Center located 1326 Greensboro Highway. When they arrived, officers saw that a window had been smashed, but the intruder had already fled, according to Chief Lee O'Dillon. The business owner met officers at the scene and determined that a change drawer containing about $30 was taken, O'Dillon noted in a news release. Police dusted the entry area for fingerprints and are reviewing security camera footage from other businesses in the area, he said. In other news, on Tuesday, March 19 at 9:30 a.m., a 1995 BMW 325-I pulled into the path of a northbound 1999 Toyota 4-Runner on Ga. Highway 15 near J&B Shell. Neither driver was …
Sunday, March 17, 2013
The vehicles had been left unlocked overnight Wednesday to Thursday.
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Sunday, March 17
Oconee County Sheriff's deputies Thursday were called to investigate a pair of entered auto reports. A CD player was pulled from the dash of a vehicle parked in the 1100 block of Grayson Lane sometime between 8:30 p.m. on Wednesday and 8:41 a.m. on Thursday. The car was unlocked. A half a mile away, the owner of a white Honda Civic that had been parked in the 1100 block of Bent Creek Road also reported someone searched his car sometime between 6:30 p.m. on March 13 and 7:30 a.m. on March 14. He told deputies he thinks the car was unlocked. Nothing appeared to be missing.
Friday, March 8, 2013
Someone recently removed 200 feet -- $2,500 worth of wire.
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Friday, March 8
Oconee County Sheriff's deputies this week were dispatched to a Georgia Transmission power station in the 7000 block of Hog Mountain Road to investigate the theft of copper grounding wire. According to an incident report, sometime between 10 a.m. on March 2 and 10 a.m. on March 5, someone cut and removed about 200 feet of wire from the chain link fence surrounding the complex. An investigator who works for the company told deputies the stolen wire has an estimated value of $2,500. Subscribe to Oconee Patch’s free newsletter, like us on Facebook and follow us on Twitter.
Dave Ballard
7:31 am on Wednesday, March 27, 2013
Disapproved! Watkinsville Service Center has given us years of consistently good service. I'm just glad it was only a single window + $30. more ›