Tuesday, June 29, 2010

Another yard sale

Saw this again this morning at Fourth and Locust streets, another yard sale/flea market/moving sale on a property owned David Doolittle. The borough has an ordinance concerning the number of yard sales, which was violated earlier this year. The current sale has been going on for about a week. Word is, the people in this building are moving down to South Third Street.

Weekly Columbia Police reports

GARY MAURICE COOK, 53, OF COLUMBIA, WAS CITED FOR PUBLIC DRUNKENNESS, IN THE 600 BLOCK OF UNION STREET, AT 10:47 P.M., JUNE 26.

ROBERT EUGENE WARFEL, 28, OF COLUMBIA, WAS CHARGED WITH SIMPLE ASSAULT, (DOMESTIC VIOLENCE), FOR AN INCIDENT THAT HAPPENED JUNE 27. HE WAS TAKEN TO THE LANCASTER CENTRAL ARRAIGNMENT, AND THEN TO L.C.P., IN LIEU OF $5,000 STRAIGHT BAIL.

REDA HMAMA, 20, OF LANCASTER, WAS CITED FOR DRIVING WHILE OPERATING PRIVILEGE IS SUSPENDED OR REVOKED, AT MANOR AND SOUTH NINTH. STREET, AT 1:10 A.M., JUNE 28.

NABIL ESKANDER, COLUMBIA, REPORTED THE THEFT OF $10,000 WORTH OF TOOLS FROM HIS WORK VAN, BETWEEN THE JUNE 10-11, WHILE THE VAN WAS PARKED TO THE REAR OF HIS RESIDENCE. ESKANDER MAINTAINS AND REMODELS PROPERTIES. THERE WERE VARIOUS MAKES OF WRENCHES, SCREWDRIVERS, BRAZING RODS, AN ACYTELEN BOTTLE WITH GAUGES, TWO BOTTLES OF R22 REFRIGENT, A BOTTLE OF 410A REFRIGENT, MILWAUKEE DRILLS, HAMMERS, GRINDER(S), PIPE WRENCHES, BENDER TOOLS, A NITROGEN BOTTLE WITH A GAUGE, AND NUMEROUS MAKITA DRILLS, SAW, HAMMER, DRILL, IMPACT DRILL, ETC. ANYONE WITH ANY  INFORMATION ON ANYONE HAVING POSSESSION OR WANTING TO SELL ANY OF THESE KINDS OF TOOLS, ARE ASKED TO CONTACT COLUMBIA POLICE, AT 684-7735.

CITIZENS IN SEVERAL AREAS HAVE REPORTED CRIMINAL MISCHIEF AND VANDALISM TO POLICE.
ONE WAS REPORTED TO HAVE  HAPPENED IN THE 900 BLOCK OF WALNUT STREET, WHERE A VEHICLE WAS SACRATCHED ON THE REAR PASSENGER SIDE DOOR AND QUARTER PANEL AREA, THAT IS BELIEVED TO HAVE HAPPENED ON THE JUNE 25, LATE IN THE EVENING. ANOTHER INCIDENT HAPPENED ON JUNE 29 IN THE 1100 BLOCK OF BARBER STREET, WHERE A PASSENGER SIDE FRONT WINDOW WAS BROKEN OUT.
A RESIDENT REPORTED THAT SOMEONE HAD  GOTTEN INTO HIS APARTMENT IN THE FIRST BLOCK OF SOUTH THIRD. STREET, BETWEEN 6:30 A.M. AND 2:30 P.M., JUNE 28.
AN HP LAPTOP COMPUTER FROM THE LIVING ROOM AREA OF THE APARTMENT WAS REPORTED STOLEN. VALULE OF THE COMPUTER IS $529.