From the Blotter

Tanks for the gas

A patron drove away from a local convenience store, taking the gas hose along as a souvenir.

According to a police report, a female driving a white vehicle pumped gas at Del-Mac while her passenger went in to pay. The store's clerk said as the vehicle drove away, the gas nozzle was still inserted into the car's tank and the hose was ripped from the pump. The clerk said she later received information on who may have been in the vehicle, but the informant "refused to get involved."

The vehicle was last seen traveling westbound on Sixth Street with the gas nozzle still attached.

Cow-tastrophe

A Sardis woman's vehicle was damaged when it struck a cow last week.

Several complaints have been made against Julius Jordon a.k.a. Larry Jenkins, a McManus Road resident, whose cows have been reported as a nuisance. According to reports, the latest incident occurred Monday, July 31, when three of his cows were "running at large" at the intersection of Highway 121 and Campbell Circle. One cow walked into the path of a vehicle driven by a Sardis woman, causing damage to her vehicle.

Flying off the handle

Several people were injured in an altercation involving frying pans, kitchen knives and an unknown offender.

On Saturday, a woman called the Burke County Sheriff's Office to report an incident in Hephzibah involving her father and an unknown woman. The offender began attacking the father, striking him in the head with a frying pan and causing a laceration, the report stated. When the complainant grabbed the woman, she was bitten twice on her arm. She said the offender

also tried to cut another person inside the home with a kitchen knife before hitting him with a shovel and striking a second man in the head with a frying pan.

The report says all victims had been drinking and two men were heavily intoxicated.

An untrue citizen

Police arrested a Waynesboro man for stealing a vacuum cleaner and a lawn mower from a handicapped woman last week.

The woman, unable to cut her own grass, accepted an offer from James Cobb Jr., 41, to cut her grass. She gave him $10 for gas and told him where her mower was.

Cobb did not return, and two days later the victim discovered her mower and vacuum cleaner were missing.

The woman told police she recognized Cobb from a recent article about him in The True Citizen.

Toothpaste makes waste

Subjects working for a temp agency kicked a door at the Jameson Inn, breaking the door's molding and causing $300 in damages.

A Jameson Inn employee advised police the subjects tried to cover up the damage with toothpaste.

Assaulter top

A fist fight broke out at Wal-Mart when a woman attacked an employee last Thursday.

According to witnesses, the employee pulled down the woman's halter top during the altercation, exposing her chest. The topless woman continued to pull the employee's hair and kick her in the head.

Store managers were able to stop the fight before officers arrived.