Animal cruelty reported on Black’s Creek Church Road

A neighbor advised that no one had been home to check on the animals in over a week. Animal control officer Beth Harmon seized six of the kittens that she could catch. Animal control reported that they have had multiple dealings with the two women who live there in the past about the cats and that cats have been seized from them before.

Photos were taken of the animals.

Other incidents on file at the sheriff’s office recently included:

•Theft by taking was reported on Maplewood Lane when the homeowner reported that trash service workers took a bag containing 70 pairs of jeans from her carport when they came to collect the trash. The owner of the business said her daughter and son-in-law had run the route that day and that they did take the jeans, according to the report.

•Criminal trespass was reported at a mobile home park on Hwy. 29 South after a woman who know longer lives there damaged the front door of a mobile home.

•Battery and criminal trespass were reported on Veterans Drive after a man said his brother was at his residence when he returned home about 8 p.m. and started punching him in the face with his fist before he could even get out of his vehicle. He said he punched him about 10 times. After his brother left, the victim also noticed that a phone and his patio furniture had been broken.

•A gun and $200 in cash were reportedly stolen from an unlocked vehicle on Eustus Carter Road.

•A woman on North Seventh Street reported that two white males pulled up in a white Chevrolet Tahoe SUV and tried to steal her riding lawn mower. She said one man got out of the SUV with surgical gloves on and approached the mower and when she yelled at him he took off running back to the SUV.

•The owner of Market on Main in Ila reported that a number of Georgia Lottery tickets had been stolen by an employee who had admitted to taking the tickets. The employee was reportedly fired.

•A TV, $50 in change, jewelry, prescription bottles and other items were reportedly stolen from a home on North Seventh Street.

•A lawnmower was reportedly taken from a home on Irvin Kirk Road.

•A man reported that someone stole his plow from a field on Sam Swindle Road last week. He said he left the plow in the field after it got stuck in a stump and when he came back the plow was gone.

•A man on Jack Sharp Road reported that his riding lawn mower had been stolen from under his porch.

•A man on McCurley Road reported that copper wire and aluminum siding had been taken from a storage trailer on his property.

•A woman on McCannon Morris Road reported that a man may have killed her Chihuahua. The case was forwarded to animal control.

•Firearms, knives, bullets, a bow and game camera were taken from a home on Bud Freeman Road.

•Simple battery was reported on Ed Coile Road following a domestic dispute. A woman at the scene was found with an injured arm and said her husband had pushed her down. Her husband and son said she had fallen down accidentally.