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Dispute at cafe leads to arrest

Aiken Department of Public Safety officers arrested Jingyu Corallo, 52, of the unit block of Congress Drive N.W., Aiken, and charged her with disorderly conduct Friday, an incident report says.

The report says an officer who was on foot patrol in downtown Aiken was approached by a man who said his wife was mentally unstable and feared an argument would occur.

They went to Davor's Cafe in the 200 block of The Alley, and the officer escorted Mrs. Corallo out of the restaurant. The report says she then hit her 34-year-old stepson, Donnie Corallo, also of the unit block of Congress Drive N.W., on the right side of his face.

The officer handcuffed her and tried to put her in the patrol car, but she resisted, the report says. She then kicked the vehicle and pushed herself out with her legs, according to the report.

The officer requested a caged patrol car to take her to the Aiken County Detention Center. Her stepson declined to press charges for assault and battery because he was not going to be in town on the court date, the report says.

Man is accused of bumping women's car

A 24-year-old Aiken man was arrested Friday and charged with aggravated criminal domestic violence.

According to a report from the Aiken Department of Public Safety, Michael Lionell James, of the 200 block of Kershaw Street S.E., hit a white Ford Explorer with his white Ford Taurus.

The Aiken women riding in the Explorer, Beatrice Hightower, 36, of the 800 block of Barnwell Avenue N.E., and Linda Tyler, 35, of the 200 block of Kershaw Street S.E., first told responding officers that they had feared for their lives but that Mr. James had not struck their vehicle.

However, the officers noticed that paint had been transferred from one vehicle to the other.

Officers also saw that the rear of the women's vehicle and the front of Mr. James' vehicle were damaged.

The women then said Mr. James had bumped their vehicle several times with his car.

Mr. James. who has a child with one of the women, also was charged with reckless driving and driving under suspension, the report says.

He was taken to Aiken County Detention Center.

Deputies investigate store's armed robbery

The Richmond County Sheriff's Office is still investigating an armed robbery of a south Augusta package store late Friday night.

Two men, one armed with a shotgun and the other with a silver semi-automatic pistol, robbed the Windsor Package Shop in the 4100 block of Windsor Spring Road at about 11:20 p.m.

The men, both wearing bandannas on their faces, forced three employees to the floor.

They then grabbed money from the cash register and fled in a beige vehicle, according to a sheriff's report.

Store employee Anthony Henry, 22, said this was the second time he'd had a gun pointed in his face since he'd started working at the business.

Truck, trailer stolen from hotel parking lot

A truck and trailer were stolen from a hotel parking lot Friday while the truck's owner was cutting the grass.

A Richmond County sheriff's report states that while the man was mowing the lawn at the Courtyard by Marriott Hotel on Stevens Creek Road, someone stole his white 1989 Chevrolet C1 pickup and an attached trailer, which contained a rake, hedge cutter and extension ladder, among other things.

Group punches man at Surrey Center club

A fight broke out in front of a nightclub in the Surrey Center shopping center early Friday.

A Richmond County sheriff's deputy was dispatched at 3 a.m. to The Vue night Club on Highland Avenue.

When he arrived, a man said six men had punched him for no apparent reason.

The officer noticed a cut on the man's lower lip, swelling in his forehead and a scrape on his right knee.