Staff Writer

Sheriff's deputies are looking for the person responsible for damaging a Buffalo building that is slated to become a textile baseball museum.

County building maintenance director Bobby Bailey reported the damage to the old Buffalo Mill office building on 106 Flat Drive Thursday. Bailey told Cpl. Jeff Wright that someone took a brick or rock and broke a large glass pane out of one of the windows that recently had been replaced.

Damage was estimated at $250.

Burglary

In the 200 block of Fleming Road, someone took a sink and cabinet and stripped copper wire from the interior of a single-wide mobile home that a man had been remodeling. A report said Cpl. Scott Ruby and Deputy Thom McAbee observed damage to the floor, wall and ceiling in the trailer. Damage was estimated at $800. The items taken are worth around $500.

Man arrested

Michael Shane Fincher, 27, of 1208 Linersville Road, Buffalo, was charged Friday by the sheriff's office with criminal domestic violence of a high and aggravated nature and child endangerment.

Deputies were called to Fincher's home shortly after midnight after it was reported there was a domestic problem and a child had glass in her mouth.

A woman told Sgt. Dee Haney and Deputy Randy Manus that Fincher had struck a glass door which she and the baby, who is 1, were standing behind.

When Manus tried to talk with Fincher, he ran into the woods but was taken into custody after a short foot chase. Fincher was treated at Wallace Thomson Hospital for a cut to his right arm.

The woman said Fincher called her at work and told her to come get the baby. When she arrived, he threw her on the ground, smacked her in the face and pushed her into the side of the trailer. Inside, he banged her head into the refrigerator.

A friend grabbed Fincher and took him outside. Fincher kept trying to get inside the trailer. He slipped away from the friend and struck the glass door the woman and child were standing behind. It threw glass on the woman and the baby was cut on her face and neck.

Fincher was being held in the Union County Jail Friday. Bond had not been set for him.