Police Blotter
Two women arrested at massage parlor jobs
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Two women were arrested for providing masturbation at a Martinez massage parlor.
Kyong Cha Yun, 57, of Tampa, Fla., and Soon Jan Han, 54, of Doraville, Ga., were charged with masturbation for hire.
On Dec. 11, Yun agreed to and attempted to masturbate an undercover Columbia County sheriff's investigator at the King Spa at 337 S. Belair Road. The investigator paid $60 for a massage.
No specifics were included in a police report regarding Han's arrest.
Yun was arrested Dec. 12, and Han was arrested Jan. 27. Both were released from the Columbia County Detention Center the same day as their arrests after posting $1,600 bonds, according to jail records.
Woman held in shoplifting
An employee of the Columbia County Probate Court was charged with trying to shoplift from an Augusta Mall department store.
On Jan. 23, while working special duty at Dillard's, a Richmond County sheriff's deputy saw Amy Sturkey, 25, and another woman take several clothing items into a dressing room. When the women came out of the dressing room, the deputy said, their purses appeared larger than when they went in.
The deputy tried to stop the women as they left the store, but Sturkey, of the 300 block of Calico Trail in Martinez, refused to stop and went back into the store. The deputy said she pulled a sweater from her shopping bag and put it onto a clothes rack. Sturkey refused to go with the deputy to the security office, even after he grabbed her arm.
The deputy grabbed Sturkey's wrist and walked her to the security office. The second woman ran away after she removed two vests from her purse. The vests were found in a trash can outside the store entrance. Sturkey offered to pay for the sweater and two dresses.
Sturkey was charged with shoplifting and obstruction of a law enforcement officer. She was released from the Augusta-Richmond County Detention Center on her own recognizance the same day, according to jail personnel.
The following accounts were taken from reports from the Columbia County Sheriff's Office. Additional reports are available at www.columbiacountyso.org:
Evans homes vandalized
Someone used food to vandalize two Evans homes.
A 42-year-old man said that between 6 and 10:15 p.m. Friday, someone threw tomato sauce on the front door of his Dogwood Way home.
He told police the same thing happened numerous times last week, but he didn't report those incidents. The man said he believes a group of area juveniles vandalized his home, but is unsure why his residence was targeted.
A Fort Gordon soldier told police Saturday that during the night someone threw eggs on the concrete driveway and porch of her Full Circle Drive home. The eggs caused no permanent damage.
Mail tampered with
A Martinez man told police Thursday someone tampered with a tax document that was mailed to him.
He said he received his federal civil service tax document in the mail at his Knollcrest Circle South home, but it had been opened.
The document contained his Social Security number and other personal information.
Credit card used online
A Martinez man told police Saturday that someone used his credit card to shop online.
The 44-year-old said he discovered that someone used his credit card to purchase nearly $780 worth of merchandise from www.bestbuy.com. The shipping address for the merchandise was in Cross Junction, Va.
Martinez Columbia Fire Rescue report for Jan. 24-30:
Structure fires, five; wood/brush/grass fire, one; vehicle fires, four; controlled/unauthorized burn, one; activated fire alarms, eight; gas line rupture, one; medical incidents, 27; vehicle accidents, 14; investigate various incidents, five; electrical incidents, five; and mutual aid/public safety assistance, two.