‘Human body’ in Ocmulgee River was something else

Back in September, a ranger for the Georgia Department of Natural Resources was sent to the Ocmulgee River in Pulaski County. “Someone reported a possible human body floating in the river,” a statement on the DNR’s website said, “but shortly after launching a boat (the ranger) determined it to be a deer carcass.” . . . Telegraph crime reporter Laura Corley was monitoring police radio chatter the other day when she heard a Bibb County sheriff’s deputy call in to dispatchers and inform them of his squad car’s odometer reading: “Ending mileage 6-6-6-6-6,” the deputy said. “Happy Halloween.” . . . In the wee hours of Oct. 13, a Bibb sheriff’s deputy reported seeing the driver of a Chevy Impala get out and stagger into a Shurling Drive food mart to buy beer. The man, 55, smelled of alcohol. When he was taken into custody on suspicion of DUI, he was “belligerent” and “rude,” an incident report noted. The man, charged with drunken driving, repeatedly complained that his blood pressure was up and he threatened to sue the police, because he claimed the deputy’s handcuffs “were hurting his carpal tunnel.” . . . In Bibb Superior Court last week, prosecutors and defense attorneys convened as they regularly do to schedule trials and pleas. The whereabouts of a defendant in a child molestation case came into question. The defendant was supposed to be in court. But as it turned out, he was late because he was being released from prison that very day after serving time for a parole violation. “That’s pretty tough,” Judge Howard Simms said from the bench. “Get out of prison, show up for another trial.”

This story was originally published November 11, 2016 at 1:00 AM with the headline "‘Human body’ in Ocmulgee River was something else."