Aiken Standard in Aiken, South Carolina

Crime blotter reports multiple incidents in Aiken County area

Deputies responded to various incidents Friday. A Graniteville man reported a break in on Augusta Road with a toolbox and a push lawn mower stolen from the back yard. A shoplifting incident on Old Depot Street in Warrenville involved two laundry detergent bottles captured on camera. A Willis ton Road assault in Aiken involved a man blocking an exit, pushing the victim, who retaliated with a blower before the suspect fled. An Aiken woman reported malicious injury to property after a man punched her televisions when denied a cigarette. A Beech Island vandalism on Old Jackson Highway involved scratching the rear door of a car with an unknown object.