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Coming back to smashed glass littering the pavement or an empty parking spot where your car used to be is a terrible feeling, but PennyGem’s Justin Kircher says there are some easy steps you can take to prevent future thefts.
Someone cut a fence to steal a trailer from a Eutaw Springs business on Friday, according to an incident report.
The owner of Bells Marina, located at 12907 Old Number Six Highway, reported that surveillance video showed a pickup truck entering the parking lot at 3:02 a.m. without pulling a trailer behind it.
The video shows the same pickup leaving the property at 3:59 a.m. towing a 16-foot-by-six-foot trailer.
The black metal trailer has a wooden floor and a mesh drop tailgate. It contained a Craftsman push lawnmower, a Craftsman weed trimmer, two O’Reilly’s car jacks and various hand tools.
The value of the stolen trailer and its contents is $3,250.
• A man went to mark an area for a new grave at Hickory Hill Baptist Church in Neeses on Monday, but noticed someone damaged two headstones with a vehicle. The church is located at a 4623 Neeses Highway.
The man estimated the damage at $1,000.
• A man reported Saturday that someone stole his 9 mm Jimenez pistol that he’d left in his aunt’s car when it was parked in the 300 block of Jamison Avenue in Orangeburg.
The gun is valued at $250.
• Someone stole a motorized hole digger from a Heartsfire Road residence in Orangeburg.
The theft was reported on Friday. The hole digger is valued at $3,000.
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Martha Rose Brown covers crime and other topics. She's worked as a journalist in the region for the past 20 years.
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