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COLUMBIA POLICE RECEIVED A REPORT OF A BURGLARY AT FRICKE’S HARDWARE STORE, ON UNION STREET, SOMETIME BETWEEN THE 24^TH. & 25^TH. OF MAY. THE BURGLARY & THEFT WAS DISCOVERED APPROX. 0730 HRS., ON THE 25^TH. POLICE & THE OWNERS FOUND A BROKEN WINDOW AND A BLOOD TRAIL THROUGH THE STORE. THE EVIDENCE LED TO ONE JOHN CARLTON SHAEFFER, AGE 34, OF THE 200 BLK. OF PERRY STREET. , COLUMBIA. MR. SHAEFFER HAD BEEN EMPLOYEED AT THE BUSINESS AT ONE TIME. POLICE PICKED HIM UP, TOOK HIM TO LGH FOR TREATMENT OF HIS INJURED ARM, WHICH HAPPENED WHEN HE BROKE THROUGH GLASS TO ENTER THE PLACE, THEN TOOK HIM TO CENTRAL ARRAIGNMENT FOR CHARGES OF BURGLARY, THEFT AND CRIMINAL MISCHIEF. HE WAS COMMITED TO LCP IN LIEU OF $20,000.00 BAIL.

EDWIN HERNANDEZ, JR., AGE 21, OF COLUMBIA, WAS CITED FOR DRIVING WHILE OPERATING PRIVILEGE IS SUSPENDED OR REVOKED, AT 3^RD. & PERRY STREETS, 22 MAY 2015.

DANIEL MICHAEL ARMOLD, AGE 25, OF YORK, WAS CITED FOR STOP SIGNS & YIELD SIGNS, AT RT. 30 EXIT RAMP AT LINDEN ST., 25 MAY 2015.

KEIN K. KIRCHNER, AGE 41, OF LANCASTER, WAS CITED FOR DRIVERS REQUIRED TO BE LICENSED, IN THE 1^ST. BLOCK OF SOUTH 4^TH. STREET, 24 MAY 2015.    

COLUMBIA BOROUGH HAS HAD NUMEROUS COMPLAINTS OF VANDALISIM, THROUGH OUT THE AREA. LOTS OF PERSONS REPORTED SILVER SPRAY PAINT ON THEIR VEHICLES AND SOME OF THEIR HOMES/PROPERTIES. SOME OF THE AREAS WERE ON SOUTH 9^TH. STREET, RIDGE AVE., PARK AVENUE, AND LOCUST STREET. ANYONE WITH ANY INFORMATION, IS ASKED TO CONTACT COLUMBIA BOROUGH POLICE DEPT., AT 717-684-7735. IT IS KNOWN WHERE THE SPRAY PAINT WAS PURCHASED AND ALSO THE APPROX. TIME, IT WAS PURCHASED.