Accusation of eye poking results in citation

Police were dispatched to the area after a caller advised a large group of people were fighting in the street.

Upon arrival, the officer met with a woman who said another man was trying to fight with her brother and had poked her in the eye twice.

The officer did not see any sign of injury in or around the woman’s eye.

According to the woman’s brother, he and another man were arguing when his sister walked outside. The brother said the other man poked his sister in the eye three times.

The other man denied poking the sister in the eye, but admitted he had been arguing with the brother. The man said he never touched the sister and several witnesses confirmed his story. Several other witnesses refused to comment on the incident.

No arrests were made “due to the lack of reliable witnesses and physical evidence,” but the man was cited for disorderly conduct.

Other recent incidents investigated by Winder Police include:

•financial transaction card fraud on Missi Lane. A man’s bank account was debited $49 by a company with which he was unfamiliar and had not authorized to access his account.

•no insurance on King Street. A man’s vehicle was towed after the only proof of insurance he could produce was an insurance card from 2004.

•damage to property on Springdale Drive. A woman returned from an out of town trip and discovered her 1998 Plymouth Neon had a dent in its roof. According to the report, the damage looked as if it had been caused by someone jumping up and down on the top of the vehicle.

•criminal damage to property on Fairview Avenue. The glass front door of a business was broken. An employee of the business said she did not know who broke the door, but advised she had been threatened a few days earlier by an angry tenant. Police were called to the location again several days later after the angry tenant showed up again demanding a refund of her rent money.

•road check on Hwy. 82. Winder Police conducted a sobriety road check on Aug. 28. A total of 79 vehicles passed through the sobriety checkpoint.

•no insurance on Courtyard Circle. An officer stopped a vehicle after running the tag and discovering the 2003 Buick Century was uninsured.

The driver could not produce proof of insurance and the vehicle was towed.

•theft on Loganville Highway. A woman’s iPhone was stolen after she left it on the table at a restaurant while she went to the restroom.

•burglary on Second Street. An apartment was burglarized after the suspect forced open the patio doors to the unit.