A Union man told public safety officers Thursday he was robbed.

The 43-year-old victim told Officer Al Griffin he was walking north on South Pinckney Street at West Henrietta Street around 11 p.m. when four men started yelling at him. He said they asked “what he had” said they wanted it and they were going to take it. The next thing he knew one of them hit him in the back of the head and underneath his left eye. He fell and all four of the suspects started hitting him all over his body. They took $24, an undetermined amount of loose change from his pockets, a silver quartz watch from his arm and his wallet out of his pocket.

A woman stopped and yelled that she was calling 911 and the four men took off running toward the Li'L Cricket.

The victim said the suspects were wearing “hoodies” of different colors. He said his watch is worth $30. He said they threw his wallet back to him when the woman yelled.

Robbery arrest

A Laurens man has been arrested in connection with a robbery that occurred in Union in October.

Chad Allen Phillips, 18, of 670 Indian Mound Road has been charged by the Union County Sheriff's Office with first-degree burglary and armed robbery.

The incident occurred on Oct. 10 on 331 Osborne St. The victim said a white man - later identified as Phillips - and a black man, came to his house with guns and demanded he give them everything he had. He said he and Phillips started fighting over his cell phone and it broke in half.

Another victim at the house said the suspects took a knife and a pack of cigarettes from him. He said he followed the suspects out of the house and demanded they give him his cigarettes back. This victim said Phillips turned around and shot into the ground where he was standing. The victim said he ran. He later gave Sgt. Russell Vinson a shell casing he said he found on the ground where the suspects were standing.

A third man at the house said he did not give the robbers anything.

An investigation is continuing.

Phillips, a former Toney Road resident, was charged on Aug. 21 with assault of a high and aggravated nature, discharging a firearm into a dwelling, pointing and presenting a firearm and kidnapping.

These charges were dropped on Oct. 21 by the solictor's office because the victim in the case, who is 19, could not be located and did not return calls seeking information.

According to the Union Public Safety Department, Phillips has requested a jury trial on charges of simple possession of marijuana and possession of drug paraphernalia that were lodged against him during the incident on Aug. 21.

Contributing to

delinquency of a minor

A Union man is accused of allowing two underaged girls to huff hydrocarbons in an attempt to get high.

Christopher Antonio Brannon, 29, who gave his address at the American Economy Inn on 755 North Duncan By-Pass, was charged Thursday by the Union County Sheriff's Office with two counts of contributing to the delinquency of a minor.

Both girls, who are 16, were charged with huffing. One of the girls also was charged with being a runaway. They were taken into Department of Juvenile Justice custody.

A report said Sgt. Dee Haney was called to Union County High School on Monday after one of the girls left school and did not return.

Haney spoke with the girl's mother who said the girl had not been home since Monday and would not come home as she had been instructed. She said the girl went to school on Monday but didn't go to class.

Haney talked with different people and learned the girl was with another juvenile girl at the motel. Officers went there and found them with Brannon. The report said he had allowed them to huff aromatic hydrocarbons - dust remover for computers in a spray can.

Thefts

At the intersection of Wyatt's Chapel Road and Mt. Lebanon Road in Buffalo, someone stole a 1995 Ford 345 front end loader tractor that belongs to G. Campbell Construction of Moores-ville, N.C. The job foreman told Deputy Thom McAbee that the crew is putting in gas lines and left the tractor parked in the middle of a field around 5 p.m. Wednesday. When they returned to work Thursday morning, the equipment, worth $15,000, was gone.

Someone also cut the lock on a utility trailer at the work site, but nothing was thought to be missing at the time of the report.

On 1478 Old Spartanburg Highway, Pacolet, a victim reported to Cpl. Scott Ruby on Thursday that $3,700 worth of jewelry is missing from her residence, including a diamond engagement ring, a gold wedding band, a diamond ring with a gold band and scalloped diamond and six or seven small diamonds, another gold ring with a diamond swirl pattern and to Pacolet Middle School rings.

There was no sign of forced entry. The victim said she had visitors in the home.

On 870 South Jonesville Highway, a victim told Sgt. Russell Vinson Thursday that someone took his Remington .243 from his vehicle. The gun is worth $350.

On 309 South Fifth St., Lockhart, a victim told Vinson Friday that someone stolen his silver 1999 Pontiac Grand Am. The victim said keys to the vehicle were stolen two weeks ago when visitors were in the home. The car is worth $3,000.

Fugitive from justice

A Jonesville man is accused of being a fugitive from justice in Delaware.

William Earl Allen, 46, of 292 Mt. Joy Church Road was arrested Thursday on a warrant signed by Sheriff Howard Wells.

A report said Allen has pending charges in Newcastle County, Del. for probation violation.

Man charged

Joe Dexter Nelson Jr., 59, of 417 Singing Pines Road, Mountville, was charged Wednesday by the sheriff's office with possession of stolen goods.

A witness reported seeing Nelson drive a motorcycle to 137 Blackstock Road and park it in a barn. He then moved it to another barn where he began taking it apart and painting it. Sgt. Dee McFalls ran the serial number through the National Crime Information Computer and found the motorcycle was stolen from a person in Laurens County.

Lumber recovered

Monday, an investigator with the Chester County Sheriff's Office called Lt. Kenneth Riddle with the Union County Sheriff's Office and asked for assistance in locating some lumber that had been stolen from an 84 Lumber truck that was stolen from Charlotte, N.C.

The investigator, Phillip Perry, said the truck was loaded with lumber for a job and was parked in Charlotte when it was stolen. Perry said the truck was equipped with GPS and it had traveled into Union County on the Berry Farm Road and had stopped near Williford Road .

Riddle went to the area and on Peake Drive noticed marks on a driveway in the soft soil which looked like some type of loader had been working in the driveway.

The owner came out and said a man he knew as “Gerald” had called him and asked if wanted to buy some damaged lumber. He said he met Gerald and two other men in a lumber truck near Tinker Creek Road and led them to his house. There they used a loader on the truck to unload the lumber and put it in his back yard. He said he paid them $500. The lumber recovered is worth around $1,000. 84 Lumber came and picked it up.