Police blotter

Masked woman attempts armed robbery in parking lot

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Columbia County authorities were still searching Tuesday for a woman they say tried to rob another woman Thursday afternoon outside a Martinez grocery store.

A 60-year-old Martinez woman told deputies a masked woman approached her with a knife or screwdriver and demanded money in the parking lot of the Food Lion on South Belair Road at about 1:20 p.m. The Martinez woman screamed and the suspect fled the scene, Columbia County sheriff's Maj. Rick Whitaker said in an e-mail.

The suspect was further described as a slender white woman dressed in all black.

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

Two go-carts taken from local amusement park

A NASCAR-inspired go-cart was reported stolen Wednesday from the former Funsville amusement park in Martinez.

Ed Smith, a co-owner of the new Adventure Crossing entertainment center on Wheeler Road, told deputies he discovered a $4,500 NASCART go-cart had been stolen and a second removed from the race track. The second cart was later recovered in a wooded area of the property.

Smith told deputies that vandals also broke into a batting cage and discharged a fire extinguisher.

Multiple suspects might have been involved because the carts weigh several hundred pounds each, and have to be lifted to be removed from the track area.

All-terrain vehicle stolen from yard of Evans retiree

An Evans retiree told deputies Thursday that someone stole an all-terrain vehicle from her yard.

The 65-year-old from the 5100 block of Huntfield Road told deputies the orange-and-black Alpha Sport Cobra 90 four-wheeler was taken sometime between Wednesday night and Thursday morning.