A family on their way to church made a frightening discovery Sunday morning — bullet holes in their car.

The incident began Saturday night around 10 a.m. when the victim said he heard several gunshots outside his home at 4885 English Avenue in Carlisle. The victim said he looked out the window and saw a vehicle heading toward Carlisle. He was not able to identify the driver or the make and color of the vehicle. The victim said at the time he didn’t think anything about the gunshots because people are always firing guns in the area.

While getting ready to go to church the next morning, the victim said his daughter told him that someone had shot up his car. He said he went outside and found several bullet holes and several smaller dents above the bullet holes in the passenger side door of his red, 1998 Toyota Camry. The vehicle was parked in front of the residence with the passenger side facing the road.

The victim said it did not appear his house or other vehicles on his property had been damaged. Damage to the Camry was estimated at $500.

Witness Intimidation

A woman ended up in jail Friday for allegedly sending threatening messages to a woman who assisted law enforcement in a drug arrest.

Brittany Bloneba Rice, 19, 109 Gault St., Apt. B1-23, is charged by the sheriff’s office with intimidation of a witness.

The incident report states a deputy met with the victim on Feb. 11 about her receiving intimidating messages for assisting law enforcement. The victim showed the deputy six text messages on her phone that were threatening and intimidating in nature that had been sent to her by Rice.

The report states the messages had been sent to the victim because she provided information that led to the arrest of Cortez Harris on Magnolia Drive for possession of marijuana. Rice was arrested the day after the deputy met with the victim.

Petit Larceny

An Enoree man has been charged in connection with the theft of 60 automotive batteries from a business in Jonesville

Robert Earl Scott, 47, 10379 Highway 56, is charged by the sheriff’s office with petit larceny. Scott is alleged to have stolen 60 batteries from the business’ parking lot sometime between Sept. 21-22. Among the items taken were automobile, golf cart and four-wheeler batteries. The batteries had a total value of $600. Scott was taken into custody Friday afternoon.

Incidents

The following incidents are being investigated by the sheriff’s office:

Suspicious Fire

Even though it was extinguished before it could spread to any nearby buildings, deputies are investigating a fire that began in a backyard at 1267 Linversville Road in Buffalo on Sunday afternoon.

A deputy was dispatched to the location at the request of the Buffalo Fire Department. When he arrived on scene, the deputy learned that two children at a nearby residence had seen smoke coming from the backyard of an abandoned house at 1267 Linersville Road. The fire department was called to the scene and extinguished the fire before it could spread to the house or a nearby storage building.

Firefighters became suspicious of the blaze when they discovered a small pile of sticks in the middle of the area where the fire was contained. There was nothing else in the area other than the pile of sticks and this made firefighters suspicious that the fire might have been intentionally set.

The following incident is being investigated by the Union Public Safety Department:

Burglary

A man who pretended to be an employee of the City of Union Utility Department’s Electric Division is being sought in connection with the theft of a woman’s pocketbook.

The victim contacted the electric division Friday to report that a man had come to her house at 109 Little Drive and said he would be cutting trees around her powerlines on Monday. The woman was told by the electric division that it was not doing any work in her area.

Public Safety Director Sam White went out to the woman’s house to interview her about the incident. The woman described the man who came to her house as a white male around 50 years old, wearing glasses and driving a black truck. She said the man left a short time later after telling her he would be back Monday to cut the trees around her powerlines.

White told the woman to call 911 if anyone else came to her house. He went back to check on her Monday. The woman told him that on Friday she discovered her pocketbook was missing from her house but was contacted Saturday by a woman who said she found her pocketbook on the side of a road in Buffalo. The woman returned the pocketbook to the victim who said everything was still in it except for $2.

Arrests

The following persons were arrested by the public safety department:

Jonathan Alexander West, 25, 115 Wedgewood Court, Union, charged Monday with shoplifting.

Winston Clinton Adams, 55, 101 Gallman St., Union, charged Monday with disorderly conduct and trespassing.

The following persons were arrested by the sheriff’s office:

Joel Rosenfeld Stewart, 40, 613 Monarch Highway, Union, charged Tuesday with shoplifting.

Zedrick Deon Harris, 23, 102 Marigold Drive, Union, charged Sunday with failure to stop for a blue light and no tag light.

Joseph Jake McNeace, 18, 127 Medford Loop, Buffalo, charged Saturday with breach of peace.