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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Animals abandoned at rescuer's kennel

The president of Happy Tails Rescue called police Tuesday evening after discovering that someone had left a dog and puppies in a kennel at her Appling home.

Barbara Gleitsmann said that when she returned home about 9:15 p.m., she checked the rescue and boarding kennels on her property. She found a female and eight puppies in a kennel cage left inside her main boarding facility.

She examined them because they had been left in the same facility she houses clients' pets. The animals appeared to be malnourished but did not appear injured.

Gleitsmann said she wants to prosecute the trespasser. She kept the animals for Happy Tails.

Someone spends woman's $4,100

Someone spent nearly $4,100 of a Grovetown woman's money at Walmart.

The resident told police Tuesday that she checked her bank account about 2:30 p.m. and found a transaction for $4,096 at an unknown Walmart store that day.

She had her bank freeze the account, but she had no idea how anyone got the account information.

Items stolen from SUV are recovered

Police found several items stolen from a Martinez man's vehicle Wednesday.

Between 1:30 and 10:15 a.m., someone stole several items, including a GPS unit, a briefcase, a demonstration kit, a laptop and cash from his Toyota 4Runner. The SUV was parked in the driveway of his Old Mill Road home.

The briefcase, a tote bag and demo kit were found behind a nearby brick wall at the entrance to Millbrook subdivision on Oakley Pirkle Road. The GPS, HP netbook and $200 were still missing.

SUV's gas siphoned during the night

Someone siphoned gasoline from a Martinez man's SUV on Monday night.

He discovered that someone siphoned about 20 gallons of gas from his Ford Explorer between 6:40 p.m. Monday and 7:30 a.m. Tuesday, while it was in the driveway of his Cyndee Circle home.

He said he has had problems with someone damaging and tampering with items around his home.