POLICE REPORTS

 A thief stole two cell phones from a Walton Drive electronics store recently.

According to the Gaffney Police Department, someone took a Motorola Cliq cell phone valued at $499 and an LG Xenon cell phone valued at $350 from the Radio Shack store on Walton Drive between 10 a.m. and 8 p.m. Nov. 11. Both phones were being used for demonstration purposes within the store.

 The Cherokee County Sheriff’s Office was asked to look into two cases of alleged power theft.

According to a police report, Broad River Electric reported the theft of power at a home in the 300 block of Quinns Trail in Cowpens and at a home in the 1200 block of Johnson Road in Cowpens.

In both cases, the utility provider told police that someone had cut the lock off the meter bases to the homes and was supplying power to the homes unlawfully.

 A Wilkinsville Highway woman was charged with a third offense of property crime following a Gaffney Police Department investigation into a Nov. 11 shoplifting incident.

According to a police report, officers were dispatched to Fred’s store on Wilkinsville Highway and were told a man and woman had entered the store and took a digital music player without paying.

The woman left in a burgundy Saturn vehicle and the man left on foot. A store employee followed and saw the man go into a nearby mobile home park. Police said they subsequently found the burgundy vehicle parked behind a trailer in the park and they were advised that the woman they were looking for was located inside the trailer.

Police said they located Patty Renee Painter, 38, and Harold Wayne Taylor, 36, both of Wilkinsville Highway, inside the trailer and that Painter handed over to police the digital music player with the store security tag still attached.

Taylor was issued a ticket for shoplifting while Painter was served an arrest warrant for a third or subsequent offense of property crimes.

 The Gaffney Police Department reported the arrest of a Kennedy Street man following a Nov. 13 incident during which he allegedly struck another man in the head with a pipe.

According to a police report, officers were dispatched to the parking lot of the Cherokee County Senior Center on West Rutledge Street at about 6:30 p.m. and found a 46-year-old North Logan Street man lying on his back and with blood covering his head and face.

Police said the man’s girlfriend told them that Tommy Allen Shippy, 50, of Kennedy Street, had struck the man in the head.

Police said they then went to a home in the 400 block of Martin Luther King Boulevard where they saw Shippy, who was on a porch, lay down a pipe-like object. Police said they subsequently recovered the item, which appeared to be a metal fishing rod holder made of rebar, and also noted blood spattered on the front of Shippy’s shirt.

Police said Shippy and a female witness claimed Shippy struck the other man in selfdefense.

Shippy was charged in an arrest warrant filed by Det. Brian Blanton with assault and battery with intent to kill.

 Two thieves made off with more than $1,700 worth of cell phones from a Walton Drive cellular telephone store.

According to the Gaffney Police Department, the two unknown men, one wearing an M&M’s Racing Jacket and the other wearing dark jeans with a pink-studded belt, took four cell phones that were being used for display purposes at the T-mobile store at 113 Walton Drive on Nov. 13.

 Limestone College reported the theft of a flat screen television recently.

According to the Gaffney Police Department, someone stole a wall-mounted 32- inch Toshiba flat screen television from the Old Limestone Learning Center building at 115 College Drive on Nov. 13.

There was no estimate on the value of the television.

 A leaf blower was reported stolen from Serene Drive.

According to the Gaffney Police Department, someone took a push-type Might Mac leaf blower from a property in the 200 block between 4:30 p.m. and 5:25 p.m. on Nov. 14.

The unit was valued at $500.