Police blotter

The following accounts were taken from reports filed with the Columbia County Sheriff's office.

Peeping tom gets away

A peeping tom caught in the act fled before Columbia County Sheriff's Office deputies arrived at the Evans scene.

Tammy Maria Pitt, 32, was in the bathroom of her Evans Mill Court home Wednesday morning when she saw a strange man looking at her through the window, according to the sheriff's office report.

Pitt described the man as a white male in dark clothing, according to the report.

Suspected satanic vandalism in Harlem

A Grovetown man found disturbing vandalism on his Harlem property Wednesday.

When Harvey Raymond Fritts, 47, of Grovetown, went to his Harlem property on the 6300 block of McZilkey Drive, he found two wooden crosses with writing on them nailed to the fence at the property's entrance, according to the Columbia County Sheriff's Office report.

Responding deputies also reported circular patterns drawn on the driveway, which they suspected were satanic symbols, the report stated. Inside the circle, the vandals had placed chicken bones, a polaroid photo of Fritts and a Coca-Cola can. Above the circle, a metal cross was staked into the ground and had a necklace on the top.

Gravestone vandalism at Bellevue

A gravestone was damaged at Bellevue Memorial Gardens recently.

Melissa Dearth-Lawson, 28, of Martinez, visited her husband's grave to find someone had used an unknown instrument to scratch the word "husband" off the bronze and granite gravestone at the cemetery at 4501 Wrightsboro Road, Grovetown.