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By allowing ads to appear on this site, you support the local businesses who, in turn, support great journalism. SPD study suggests need for 28 more patrol cops; chief asks for 8 this year Officer Jasmyn Perez, left, the Statesboro Police Department’s newest officer, is welcomed aboard by Chief of Police Mike Broadhead after being sworn in by Mayor Jonathan McCollar at the City Hall steps April 16. (Photo courtesy of SPD)
The Statesboro Police Department, whose authorized workforce of 77 people includes 32 regular, or “line level,” patrol officers, could use 28 more, according to an internal study by the department.
But Chief of Police Mike Broadhead realizes that funding and hiring 28 officers in one year would be “impossible,” he told the mayor and City Council. He is instead asking to add eight patrol officer positions in the fiscal year 2022 budget. These include two he requested one year
UNC System Board of Governors Approves 4 New Trustees for UNC-CH
The UNC System Board of Governors approved several new trustees for UNC-Chapel Hill during its monthly full board meeting.
The university system leadership approved Rob Bryan III, Perrin Jones, Malcom Turner and Ramsey White on Thursday morning, adding them to the ranks of the Chapel Hill university’s Board of Trustees.
Bryan, Jones and White’s appointments were unanimously approved, while Turner’s candidacy had a separate vote. While some system governors expressed concerns about Turner’s current role as head of strategy and corporate development for the sports gambling site DraftKings, his appointment also passed with an 18-6 vote.
“I said to her I have got a gun.” However, he told the officers interviewing him that he was lying about having a firearm and that he “wanted to scare her”. He claimed that he patted her down and searched her pockets and how she started crying when he said “I am going to leave you with nothing”. Simmons even told police his victim “didn’t put up a fight” and that he ordered her to “shut up”. According to the Crown Prosecution Service, a CCTV operator alerted police to the incident which happened during the early hours of August 4 last year.
By Tom Orde Crime and court reporter
Jeremy Blake Simmons is due to be sentenced next month.
A MAN dragged a woman to a bench where she thought she was going to be raped in a Hampshire park. Jeremy Blake Simmons grabbed his victim from behind before kicking her in the face during an attack in Leigh Road Park, Eastleigh a court heard. The 20-year-old told police during an interview he kicked her in an attempt to stop her from screaming . Simmons claimed he had been trying to rob the 19-year-old woman. However, he did not manage to take anything because the police arrived.
Fugitive wanted in Statesboro found in Los Angeles
Fugitive wanted in Statesboro found in Los Angeles By Dal Cannady | March 4, 2021 at 5:38 PM EST - Updated March 4 at 7:21 PM
STATESBORO, Ga. (WTOC) - A fugitive accused of stealing from a Bulloch County charity now faces eviction and legal trouble in California.
Jeremy Foreman has been wanted by Statesboro Police since 2014 on theft-by-conversion charges that claim he took money from a local charity.
Detectives who investigated this case say they’ve had information for years that Foreman was in the general Los Angeles area. But even with an exact address, it’s tougher than just sending someone cross country to arrest him and bring him back.