From the Blotter

Wedding trasher

"If you try it, I will ruin it," was the wedding advice one man had to offer his ex-girlfriend's fianc.

On Friday, April 28, a man renting the Hargrove Club House for his wedding reception reported that several pictures of he and his fiance had been taken from the club house. He showed deputies several text messages in which his fiancee's former boyfriend had threatened to ruin the wedding.

Deputies advised the victim to call the Burke County Sheriff's Office if the man showed up at the wedding.

Crying wolf

A Waynesboro man finagled $40 from a juvenile after claiming his house burned down.

The juvenile's father received a phone call last Wednesday 26, from the offender who claimed his house had burned down and that he needed to borrow money to buy food. The victim said he would need to check with his wife first.

When the juvenile returned to his home alone, the offender was waiting on the porch. The juvenile gave the man $40 after the man told him his parents were supposed to give him money.

After learning what happened, the father did some investigating and learned the man's house had not burned down. He tried to get his money back, but the offender said he had already spent it on gas.

A whole Lotto trouble

A man who got angry at a lottery machine took his aggressions out on a Golden Pantry employee.

According to a report, the incident occurred just before midnight last Tuesday. The suspect became angry because the lottery machine was down. When an employee asked the man to leave, he pulled out a hand gun.

A customer in the store also witnessed the incident.

Stupid crook tricks

Armed with a fishing knife and a t-shirt over his head, a man entered the Jet Food Store on Saturday night and demanded money.

According to the report, once the employee told the man she knew who he was, he fled from the store.

Crack medication?

A patient at Burke Medical Center dropped her crack pipe before leaving.

A hospital employee said the offender, who was being treated for a hand injury and had not

received pain medication, went outside and smoked an unknown substance. When she returned, she dropped a crack pipe onto the floor where it broke.

The employee gave the pipe to authorities who warned the offender she could not bring such items into the hospital.

New York, N.Y.

A stolen tag made its way all the way to New York.

The tag was reported stolen by a Waynesboro resident in February and was recovered by the Hampstead Village Police Department last week.

The department stated the tag had been destroyed and would not be returned.

Let me in

A Sardis woman attacked a man with a screwdriver after he refused to let her use drugs in his home.

According to a report, the woman appeared at the man's residence on Mon., April 24, asking to come inside to use drugs. The complainant said he told her she could not smoke drugs in his home, at which time she became angry and cut him with a small screwdriver.