SCSO Announces Three Arrests

The Stephens County Sheriff’s Office is announcing three recent arrests following two separate incidents.

First, Stephens County Sheriff Randy Shirley said deputies responded to a Highway 17 business in Martin on October 30 in reference to a suspicious vehicle and a possible burglary in progress.

“Deputies, while working the Martin area, enter a business,” said Shirley. “(The deputy) determined that he had broken into the business.”

Shirley went on to say that the deputy also noticed a newer model white Ford Focus parked in the alley way by the business.

“A check of that Ford Focus revealed that it was stolen from Ed Murdock Superstore in Franklin County,” said Shirley.

Shirley said there were stolen items inside the Ford Focus were from the personal vehicle of one of the dealership’s employees.

The sheriff said his office arrested 28-year-old Jonathon Sorrows of Highway 17 in Martin.

Sorrows is charged with burglary, possession of tools for the commission of a crime, and two counts of possession of a firearm by a convicted felon in Stephens County.

Shirley said Sorrows will also face charges in Franklin County and is currently in the Stephens County Jail at last report on a $20,000 bond.

In a separate incident, the sheriff said two people were arrested after an investigation last month at an Eastanollee residence.

Shirley said deputies went to a Mona Drive address after reports of alleged drug activity.

“As a result of that, we found out who was living and it was a probationer,” said Shirley. “We contacted State Probation and the Franklin County Sheriff’s Office K-9 unit. Once deputies arrived, a vehicle drove up and a female exited the vehicle and dropped some methamphetamine and marijuana on the ground.”

Shirley said deputies then searched the vehicle, which was driven by 35-year-old Jimmy Dale Turpin of Toccoa reveled methamphetamine and cash.

The sheriff said Turpin, whose address is listed as Defoor Road, was charged with Possession of Methamphetamine with Intent to Distribute and remains in the Stephens County Jail with a $30,000 bond at last report.

The female in the vehicle, identified by law enforcement as 28-year-old Constance Jacobs of Mona Drive in Eastanollee, was charged with Possession of Methamphetamine and Possession of Marijuana and remained in the Stephens County Jail at last report with a $15,000 bond.

Shirley said the Sheriff’s Office also seized the vehicle and a total of $2,197 in cash.