From the Blotter

Armed and angry

Officers rescued a Waynesboro man who was holed up in a bathroom with an armed girlfriend outside.

According to a report filed at the Waynesboro Police Department, the girlfriend's father called police after he heard his daughter, 22-year-old Alfreda Herndon, scream for help and saw the two fighting.

When police arrived, the boyfriend, 23-yearold Christopher Jenkins, was locked in the bathroom while Herndon stood outside with a knife.

Officers got Herndon to drop the knife but when Jenkins opened the door, she reportedly charged him. According to the report, she hit him in the face several times and kneed him in the stomach before police managed to get her off. Jenkins, who was wanted on several warrants, fled the scene while they were dealing with her.

Herndon was charged with battery (Family Violence Act) and willfully obstructing or hindering a law enforcement officer.

According to a report filed three days earlier, Jenkins was inside the home of another Waynesboro woman when Herndon came in with a knife and threatened to kill them both.

Ramifications

A Gough woman called deputies after her children became targets in an ongoing family feud.

According to a report filed at the Burke County Sheriff's Office, the children were sitting in the bed of a parked pick-up outside their home when a woman allegedly crossed the highway and pretended she was going to ram them.

All of the children jumped out except for one girl who told deputies the oncoming truck was going so fast, she was afraid to move. The girl went on to say that when the driver got close, she "swooped in" like she was going to hit them, then swooped back out again. The kids said the woman went by them so fast, she nearly overturned when she tried to make a turn.

Deputies told the mother how to obtain a warrant.

Electrick

Deputies are trying to sort out a fight involving a couple, a neighbor and a tampered power box.

The confusion started Friday when officers were called to a Highway 56 trailer park where a Planters Electric employee discovered that the couple was stealing power.

According to the employee, the power had been illegally hooked back up after it was cut off for non-payment.

The homeowner gave the employee the neighbor's name and said he'd done it against their wishes.

Deputies were called again three hours later when the neighbor allegedly began beating the couple for trying to get him in trouble.

He told officers the woman had agreed to have sex with him in exchange for showing them how to turn the power back on.

After a tutorial, the homeowner was sent to the liquor store while the woman stayed home and made good on her promise, the neighbor said, adding that he'd never actually touched the power box.

Due to conflicting stories, both parties were advised of warrant procedures.