Sheriff Reports

• March 31, a deputy made contact with a manager at Teddybears Truckstop regarding a forgery report. She told authorities: March 29, at 2 a.m., an employee said a man came into the store several times and the third time he tried to exchange a counterfeit $100 bill claiming he received it the day before from the store. The employee denied his request and gave the money back to the customer. In Huttig, around 1 p.m. that day, he tried pumping gas at Tom’s One Stop with a counterfeit $5 bill. The clerk noticed the bill and when he attempted to pump gas he only got a few dollars worth before the pump was deactivated. The clerk told him he could only get a couple dollars in gas because that’s all the bill was worth. The clerk told him to leave and placed the counterfeit $5 bill under the register before calling authorities.

March 29, a deputy responded to a structure fire at the end of Primm Road. A neighbor told authorities he saw smoke coming from the property earlier that day. Looking around the property, he saw smoke fuming from a shed and a wooded area that was caught on fire. Mt. Holly Fire Department and the forestry commission responded to the dispatch call. No damage was done to any of the property except the woods and small storage unit.

• March 29, a deputy responded to a residential burglary call at the 5000 block of Hibanks Road. The complainant said she arrived at the residence that morning and noticed the back door was open. The residence was unoccupied during the alleged burglary. The deputy saw that the back door was open and there was no evidence of forced entry. The complainant said the only items missing were a set of welding bottles from outisde of the barn. The deputy observed the residence in “complete disarray with all the cabinets having contents strewn about the floor,” according to the report. The last time the complainant checked the residence was March 28, when everything appeared secure.

• March 28, a sergeant responded to a residential burglary report on the 500 block of Parker’s Chapel Road. According to the complainant, she was away from her residence on March 20, and returned around 9:30 p.m. March

21. It wasn’t until the next day that she noticed a few towels, bars of soap, and a newly opened pack of womens’ razors were missing. Also, she said a gold locket normally stored in her living room was missing. Later that day, she said a neighbor told her that around the same time an unknown woman walked door to door in the trailer park asking people for money. The neighbor told her the woman was driving a red SUV and couldn’t provide a license plate number. The complainant said her back door was unlocked, which she said is how unforced entry was made inside her residence. Also, she said her neighbor filed a similar burglary report last week but the sergeant said he couldn’t locate one.