Just before 4 p.m., Demaggio was driving west on the 5700 block of Wrightsboro Road just west of Water Branch Baptist Church outside Grovetown when she ran off the right side of the road, said Columbia County Sheriff’s Capt. Sharif Chochol.

Authorities on Sunday arrested a North Augusta couple accused of burglary after they led deputies on a high-speed chase into South Carolina.

A Grovetown man called deputies at about 10:45 a.m. Sunday, stating they saw a man go into their neighbor’s garage and come out carrying a backpack leaf blower. The man, later identified as Jack Holt, 24, threw the blower into the trunk of a white Dodge Intrepid and sped away.

A Richmond County Sheriff’s Office motorcycle deputy was critically injured Thursday afternoon when he crashed his personal motorcycle on Interstate 20.

Deputy Alton Creech, who was off duty, was approaching the Belair Road westbound exit on his Harley-Davidson shortly after 5 p.m. when he hit the back of a 1999 Toyota Camry, said Columbia County sheriff’s Capt. Steve Morris.

Creech, 32, was airlifted to Georgia Regents Medical Cen­ter and listed in critical condition, according to a hospital spokeswoman.

The former treasurer of an Evans neighborhood association has been charged with stealing more than a quarter-million dollars from the organization.

Laurie Wainwright Vanover, , of the block of, was charged with multiple counts of financial transaction card fraud, computer theft, theft by taking and theft by conversion after turning herself in Tuesday morning at the Columbia County Sheriff’s Office, said Capt. Steve Morris.

Two Augusta teens were arrested early Tuesday after authorities say one robbed a Martinez convenience store at gunpoint and then led deputies on a brief chase.

James Eric Gibbons, 17, of Sasser Lane, and Evan terry Ramsey, 17, of Martin Luther King Jr. Boulevard, were charged with armed robbery and are being held in the Columbia County Detention Center without bond, according to Columbia County sheriff’s Capt. Steve Morris.

The following accounts were taken from reports from the Columbia County Sheriff’s office:

Online date harasses man after learning he’s married

An Evans man told deputies Tuesday that a woman he met through on online dating site harassed him at work after learning he was married.

The 28-year-old man said he met the woman on Zoosk and they dated for a few weeks. She bought him an amplifier for his car, but after discovering he was married, the woman asked to be repaid. The man agreed.