Police blotter

The following accounts were taken from reports from the Columbia County Sheriff's Office. Reports are available at www.columbiacountyso.org:

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Martinez home is reported burglarized

A Martinez woman returned home Friday and found her door kicked in and her home burglarized.

She said she saw several lights on inside about 8:30 p.m. The back door appeared to be closed, but she called police.

Someone had kicked the back door off its hinges and ransacked several rooms. Stolen property included a shotgun, two televisions, a Nintendo Wii game system, a laptop computer, 16 silver certificates, 13 $2 bills and a $29,000 gold Rolex watch.

Money stolen after shopping cart is switched

Someone switched an Appling woman's shopping cart in the Martinez Walmart and stole cash from her purse.

She said that about 10 p.m. Saturday, someone switched her cart with another, which she realized was not hers in the shoe department of the store at 260 Bobby Jones Expressway.

Store employees found her abandoned cart, with her purse, in the ladies department.

The woman said $100 was missing.

Two high schools burglarized

Two high schools were burglarized last weekend.

An assistant principal at Lakeside High School, 533 Blue Ridge Drive in Evans, said someone broke the glass out of the band room door Saturday and unlocked it from the inside. The burglar ransacked the band room office.

About 2 a.m. Sunday, two men used a ladder to break the glass out of a cafeteria door at Greenbrier High School, 5114 Riverwood Parkway in Evans. The men, whose images were recorded by surveillance video, used the ladder, which was obtained on school property, to break the glass front out of a soft-drink machine and to reach a $3,000 television set mounted on the wall in the main hall.

The video showed the men carrying the television set out and loading it into a dark extended-cab truck.

Vehicles are vandalized

Someone damaged two vehicles last week.

A Martinez man said that between 11 p.m. Thursday and 9 a.m. Friday, someone pulled the transmission fluid line out of his Chevrolet 1500 truck, causing fluid to leak out. Because the hood was secure, the only way to reach the line was to crawl under the truck.

A developer told police he was eating at an Evans restaurant Friday evening when someone told him a tire on his Chevrolet Tahoe was flat. He pumped up the tire and drove home. When he took the vehicle to a repair shop Saturday, a technician found a knife blade stuck in the tire.

Martinez-Columbia Fire Rescue report for Sept. 6-12:

Structure fires, four; wood/brush/grass fires, three; vehicle fire, one; controlled/unauthorized burns, two; other fires, two; activated fire alarms, 12; gas line ruptures, two; hazardous materials, one; electrical incidents, one; medical incidents, 21; vehicle accidents, three; investigate various incidents, seven; assist residents, one; and mutual aid/public safety assistance, one.