Barrow blotter

The Barrow County Sheriff’s Office reported the following incidents:

FRAUD: A deputy responded to the County Line Road home of a 49-year-old Winder woman Aug. 27 after she reported that a man who claimed to work for a lottery company awarding her $2.5 million was en route to her home with FBI agents in tow to deliver her check and collect processing fees. When the man who called to instruct the woman how to pay him in order for him to deliver the money, the deputy identified himself and told the man that unless he showed up with a check for $2.5 million, the deputy would take him to jail for fraud. The man hung up.

THEFT: A 39-year-old Winder man reported that six non-working engines and scrap metal valued at $3,250 had been stolen from an abandoned chicken house on Carl Bethlehem Road between Aug. 23 and Aug. 27. A generator and some plumbing from an abandoned RV next to the chicken house were also missing, and because there is more scrap metal in the building, the man believes the thieves may return, he told the deputy.

NEIGHBORHOOD COMPLAINT: A 45-year-old Ponderosa Circle woman called police to complain that her 29-year-old neighbor was washing her car in a bathing suit, and offered to show the deputy a video she recorded of the incident on Aug. 27. The deputy told the woman her neighbor wasn’t doing anything wrong, and advised her not to misuse the 911 system.

PROPERTY DAMAGE: A deputy was dispatched to a storage facility on Georgia Highway 324 in Auburn after the owner reported that a post on the side of his building had been damaged and the building itself scratched, likely by a trailer that had struck it in the owner’s three-hour absence. The damage to the post and the building was more than $500, the owner told the deputy.

THEFT: A deputy responded to The Carl House on Atlanta Highway at 10 p.m. Aug. 27 after a female wedding guest was detained by event security for stealing money from a bar tip jar. The deputy searched the event space after learning that a purse and camera valued at $721 were also missing; the camera was recovered in the couch cushions the suspect was sitting on when detained by security. The 38-year-old Bloutsville, Ala. woman was arrested for theft of cash in the amount of $14.

DUI: A 54-year-old Bethlehem driver struck two mailboxes on Carl Bethlehem Road and nearly hit a motorcycle and an SUV head-on about 8:30 a.m. Aug. 28. The man admitted to the responding deputy that he had taken a dilaudid — a narcotic pain reliever — before driving, and was transported to Barrow Regional Medical Center labs for a blood test before he was taken to jail.

WARRANT: A 41-year-old Winder man was arrested on an outstanding warrant for missed child support payments at a Soloman Drive home. The man released his car to a 69-year-old neighbor before being transported to Barrow County Detention Center.

PROPERTY DAMAGE: A deputy responded to a call that someone cut the gas line of a 22-year-old Manning Gin Road man’s 2001 Jeep Grand Cherokee and tampered with the rear brakes on Aug. 28. The man said he didn’t know who would want to hurt him or his family, even though there are some people he doesn’t get along with.

CIVIL MATTER: A 24-year-old man reported that his 5-year-old daughter’s biological mother was refusing to grant him his court-appointed visitation rights. A deputy responded to his Evergreen Drive address Aug. 28 to take the report, which the man said he would use to take his daughter’s 22-year-old mother back to court.

CIVIL MATTER: A deputy took an incident report for a 32-year-old Winder man who called 911 Aug. 28 to complain that his ex-wife was not supposed to have her boyfriend in her home while she had visitation rights with his children due to a recent drug arrest. When his son returned home, he told his dad that the boyfriend had spent the night, and that there was a gun under his mother’s bed.

THEFT: A 5.5-horse-power pressure washer was stolen from the bed of a pickup truck parked at a home on Pinebrook Road, but thieves left the hose and pressure gun, a 24-year-old Auburn man reported at 6:30 a.m. Aug. 29. A deputy filed an incident report without the pressure washer’s serial number.

WARRANT: A deputy served two outstanding warrants to a 51-year-old Winder man he saw sitting on the front porch of his Clifton Drive home smoking a cigarette on Aug. 29. The deputy said he remembered seeing the man’s name on warrant list, which included a charge of pills not in original container and a violation of the Georgia Controlled Substance Act.

WARRANT: A 30-year-old Statham woman was arrested at her Greeson Road home on a failure to appear warrant from Barrow County stemming from a drug charge. A deputy transported her to Barrow County Detention Center Aug. 29 without incident.

WARRANT: A Clacktown Road woman was arrested at her home on a failure to appear warrant Aug. 29. A deputy took the 20-year-old woman to Barrow County Detention Center at 11:30 a.m.

DUI: A deputy inspected the scene of an overturned vehicle on Atlanta Highway at Wall Road at 11:30 a.m. Aug. 29 while the 42-year-old Winder driver was being evaluated by medics. He discovered an empty Lortab bottle prescribed to the Winder man outside the car, and performed a field sobriety test after noting his speech was slurred and he had difficulty keeping his balance.

THEFT: A deputy responded to a shoplifting report at a Walmart on Atlanta Highway Aug. 29 and met with a company loss-prevention employee who said a man in his early 20s took a brown shirt and a black hat worth $20 or less and fled the store. No arrests were made.

TERRORISTIC THREATS: A 28-year-old Winder woman called 911 at 1 p.m. Aug. 29 after receiving a call from a man who threatened to kill her and told her he was sitting in the driveway of her home on Atlanta Highway. She was worried that a 52-year-old woman staying at the residence was hurt because she didn’t pick up the phone, and didn’t want to arrive at the house without law enforcement there, she told a deputy.

COUNTY CITATION: A deputy responded to a home on Creekwood Road Aug. 29 where a mobile home, camper and a modular home in two parts were on blocks and being wired for power, and issued a county ordinance citation for not having a building permit for the mobile home. The deputy also advised a 42-year-old man setting up the home to remove four semi trucks from the property.

FRAUD: A 38-year-old Winder woman called 911 to report that her 57-year-old mother had filed taxes using her daughter’s identity. The woman’s mother may also have stolen personal items from her and her son following a 2010 domestic violence report, including her son’s ROTC dress uniform, she told the deputy who responded Aug. 29.

COMPLAINT: A deputy responded to a 911 call Aug. 29 from a paving company truck driver that a woman was sitting in some equipment he was trying to move on Bill Rutledge Road at Patrick Mill Road. The woman, a 63-year-old property owner on Patrick Mill Road, wanted the company to remove their equipment from her yard and repair the damages to her grass, which the company superintendent who arrived on scene agreed to do.

MISCELLANEOUS INFORMATION: A 36-year-old Old Thompson Road man called 911 Aug. 29 after receiving a call from a man claiming to be law enforcement telling him he would be arrested for drug charges later that night. After the deputy called the phone number and identified himself, the man hung up. The deputy advised the 36-year-old victim that the caller more than likely was trying to gain personal information by having him divulge his Social Security number to confirm fictitious charges.

SUSPICIOUS INCIDENT: A deputy responded to an Evergreen Drive home Aug. 29 where a 32-year-old woman reported finding an arrow in her yard. Neighbors told the woman that people do hunt in the small patch of wood behind her home, but there didn’t appear to be any damage to her house, she told a deputy.

FORGERY: A 56-year-old Statham woman was the unwilling recipient of two money orders for $995 each from a man she didn’t know who instructed her to cash them in her account, keep $100 for her trouble, and then wire the rest to an unknown woman in Malaysia. The woman showed a deputy the emailed instructions and asked him to take the money orders from her as evidence.

HARASSING PHONE CALLS: A 27-year-old Winder woman reported receiving several harassing phone calls from her ex-boyfriend, who isn’t supposed to contact her, she told a deputy Aug. 29. A no-contact order was part of a bond written in Haralson County against the ex for family violence against the woman.

THEFT: A deputy responded to a shoplifting call at a gas station convenience store on Carl Bethlehem Road Aug. 30, where a security camera caught a man who bought gas and lottery tickets swiping two unpaid lottery tickets from the counter when the clerk’s back was turned. The man left before the clerk realized the tickets, valued at $10, were missing.

SUSPICIOUS INCIDENT: A 41-year-old woman called 911 when she noticed a man walk through her yard and into some woods behind her home on Dooley Town Road. She suspected the man was a former boyfriend who recently got out of jail and isn’t legally allowed to see her son, she told a deputy.

TERRORISTIC THREATS: A 38-year-old Bethlehem woman was driving a male acquaintance to a mobile home on Venture Way when he accused her of sleeping with one of his friends and punched the glass inside her windshield hard enough to break it, then pushed her to the ground when she exited her vehicle, causing abrasions to her knees. When the woman met a deputy at the Winder Police department, she played a voicemail from the man who told her that if she contacted police she would “not wake up to see tomorrow.”

PROPERTY DAMAGE: A Statham couple who moved into a home on Princeton Drive this year reported that three of their windows had been shot out with a BB gun over the weekend, resulting in about $2,500 in damages. Other neighbors have had issues with neighborhood kids shooting them and their property, and she is concerned for the safety of her three cats, the 53-year-old woman told a deputy Aug. 30.

OBSTRUCTION: Deputies trying to serve a warrant on a 52-year-old man wanted for probation violation entered the home of the man’s brother after spotting him in a truck outside a residence on Thurman Drive at

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