Deputy Halbasch Narrative

On December 22, 2015, at about 6:20 pm amazon associate Girard Pedley notified James Weisgable that his car was damaged by another car. The case was then passed down to security officer Tatiana Kania to review some footage. At end of shift Girard Pedley approached his car and had noticed that a blue pickup truck’s bed was parked on top of his car. He noticed it and backed his car up to check if it was damaged. He saw that the tow hitch of the truck had made a small scratch and peeled off some paint. After reviewing camera footage; using camera C244 port 1 and camera C074, Tatiana was able to see that the blue pickup truck had parked at 4:03 pm. The owner of the blue truck had come in to the building at 4:05 pm. At 4:05:06 the truck had rolled

On July 27, 2015, at approximately 10:54 AM I, Deputy Ragsdale, was advised by dispatched to contact the complainant, Randy Clay, by phone in reference to a theft.

On Friday, August 12, 2016 at approximately 1000 hours, I assisted the patrol division in locating a burglary suspect that entered the residence of 1023 Barn Oak Court. The complainant/victim Nicole Smith stated to the Conyers Commutation that when she entered the front door of the residence, she heard an unidentified noise in the back bedroom. As she entered the rear bedroom the subject exited the residence through the rear window.

Upon our arrival we were met by Jerry Thompson, he stated to us that someone had stolen some hand tools and atv wheel and tires from his shop behind his residence. After speaking with Mr. Thompson Sgt. South and I went out to the outside of the shop under a covered parking area and found a yellow in color Can-Am atv on a motorcycle jack without the wheel and tires. After this Mr. Thompson showed us inside of the shop where a tall rolling tool box was and informed us that various hand tools such as socket sets, ratchets and electric impact drivers were taken from. Mr. Thompson also informed us that in the office area inside the shop was a change jar with approximately $20.00 in change was missing and a 30 pack of bud light was missing out of the refrigerator in the office area.

On 07/06/17 at approximately 0817 hours, Officer Flick I (Ofc Paipoovong#24) responded to 3656 Hoffman Rd#304 on a welfare check complaint. The complainant/mother, Evelyn LOUISE Vermeersch dob: 02-04-1940, requested that an officer check on her adult daughter, Carol Lynn Jacobson dob: 10-12-1966, who is also wheelchair bond because she had not heard from her since yesterday.

On 02/26/2017 I, Deputy Daniel Pruitt was dispacthed to 18525 South 80th West Aveune for a burglary in progress. I arrived on scene with Deputy John Arnold to locate the caller.

On 13Aug16 at 1435 hrs. I, Deputy Halbasch, was requested to Trooper Dingman with a domestic that was reported to him in the city of Akeley.

On 01/16/16 I contacted Iwanda Davidson at her residence at 11900 Melissa Lane. Mrs. Davidson said sometime over the past two weeks she has had several items come up missing from her residence including a black Hi-Point 9mm handgun, unknown serial number, valued at $150, a new in the box Poulan Chainsaw, unknown model or serial number, valued at $120, a new in the box Homelite weed eater, unknown model or serial number, valued at $50. Mrs. Davidson said she is missing a PorterCable tool bag which contained a battery operated drill, flashlight, circular saw and reciprocal saw, unknown serial numbers, valued at $250, a new set of sockets, wrenches and other miscellaneous hand tools, valued at $150, two new dead bolts she purchased for her front door to her residence, valued at $30 combined, and a Nokia cellular telephone blue in color with a pink and white case, valued at $30. Mrs. Davidson said that she also had several pieces of jewelry, mostly inexpensive keepsakes and costume jewelry, go missing. Mrs. Davidson said that the jewelry was a gift from her grandmother and that she could not describe any of it aside from one ring which had a dark stone possibly black or purple surrounded by several lab created white/clear gems. Mrs. Davidson said she did not know what the value of the

I spoke to Rob Bettinger who stated someone had broke into his home. Rob stated the only thing missing was a envelope with $700.00 dollars in a dresser in the master bedrooom. Rob stated nothing else in the home had been touched or messed with. Rob stated the suspect used something to force open the door from the garge into the home. I noticed the door was broken and the lock was in the floor of the home. I took photos of the damage to the door and place into evidence.

Upon my arrival I spoke to Chris Holt, who stated that he had heard a truck door close and went outside to see what the noise was. Chris stated that when he walked outside he observed a County Road sign 4897 lying on his front porch. Chris then observed a white Chevrolet pickup possibly a 4wd with two kids in the back of the truck throwing two more County Road signs and a tripod to a transit into his yard. Chris tried to follow the pickup to get a possible tag number but was unable due to the high rate of speed the vehicle was traveling down the roadway. I advised Chris that I was going

idea what we are dealing with. Also after he was back in the house he went out back in the woods to retrieve our trail cameras that were back in the woods where we bow hunt. The cameras were gone except one and on that camera was a picture of Thomas All walking away with my trail camera. Dave printed that picture and gave it to me. I brought it to Investigator Mauro of the Sheriffs Department, he assured me Thomas All was going to be arrested. Two weeks later I called him and he told me they charged Laura with petty larceny. Thomas All said Laura sent him in the woods to get the cameras. Also Thomas All snap chatted a picture of my chain saw along with one of Dave's that was missing. This is the same saw he told Deputy Murray he didn't

Upon my arrival I met with the complainant identified as Travis L. Williams (03/12/78) and his employee Todd A.D Gowing (11/10/1990). Williams stated that starting in January of 2014, his business Ace Tech, received a large amount of phones via UPS that were not ordered by him or his employees. William stated that the boxes came under the name of Johnny Hash from the company named H20 Wireless. Williams stated that Hash also owns a business nearby and is using Williams address to receive the packages. Williams was able to return the phones through AT&T and get his money back, since he was also getting billed for the phones.

On 23Apr17 at 2312 hrs. & 24Apr17 at 0556 hrs. I, Deputy Halbasch, received two emails from Eric with the photos he took for the property & some more follow-up information.

November 24th, 2015 at 1230 hours, Investigator Akins made contact with victim Jim McKay who stated that he had approximately 200 pounds of Michelob Ultra cans in black Thrash bags with red draw strings. Mr. McKay stated the only suspect he could think of is Cameron Thompson who lives less than 30 feet from the work shop. Investigator Akins did a check with Leads on Line and discovered Mr. Thompson had sold 96 pounds of cans on November 17th, 2015 at between 1031 hours and 1131 hours. Investigator Akins contacted the Reeves Recycling and spoke with Joe Bailey, who stated on November 17th 2015 Mr. Thompson did come in but he did not know what kind of cans he had brought to sell, but he would check with the worker s in the can area. Mr. Bailey

He agreed, and when he saw the ammo boxes he recognized them immediately along with a can of appliance epoxy spray. Mr. Scaffa works as an appliance repair tech. At this point it was evident that Mr. Jones would be under arrest for the burglary of the ammo. We asked Mr. Scaffa if he could recognize any more items as stolen, and he recognized the tool bags that were inside the car along with his Notre Dame checkbook. When we opened the checkbook it was indeed Mr. Scaffa’s. The tool bags contained numerous personal items of Mr. Scaffa with his name or address on it.