MOULTRIE, Ga. — It’s been said that love hurts. In this instance the injured party was a 55-inch flat screen television reportedly broken by a girlfriend angry that her beau was spending too much time playing video games on Christmas Day.

Deputies investigated a number of other domestic disputes over the holiday weekend, making arrests in two of the incidents.

On Sunday, Joshua Stevens reported that his girlfriend had “destroyed” their residence while he was away. The television was among the damaged property, and Stevens’ Xbox game system had been taken.

He told police that he and the woman had argued earlier in the day because she complained that he was spending too much time on the game system.

The woman was not at the residence when Stevens arrived home and police were unable to find her.

On Saturday, Lonnie Wesley Beck Jr. reported that a neighbor in his mobile home park at 225 Indian Lake Drive struck him twice with a tire tool when Beck caught the man taking things from his truck.

Beck told police that the man hit him in the cheek and left shoulder and drove away after Beck hit him to defend himself.

Beck had marks on his cheek and shoulder, police said. Emergency medical technicians responded but Beck declined to be taken to the hospital.

On Thursday, Alisha Croy, 1800 block James Buckner Road, reported that a male companion punched her in the right eye.

She told police that he kicked her puppy and hit her when she pushed him.

Croy’s right eye had some black coloration. She went to a relative’s residence for the night and had not decided whether she wished to press charges.

In another Friday incident, Russell Roberts, 200 block Cool Springs-Ellenton Road, Norman Park, reported that a male acquaintance hit him in the face with a pipe.

Roberts told police that he and his girlfriend were having a heated discussion at a residence near the intersection of Sylvester Drive and Bethel Road.

When he reached for the phone, he reported, that man hit him.

Police went to the residence where the incident occurred and the homeowner said that the man they were looking for “might” be home. After initially refusing permission to enter, the man allowed them to come inside to look for the suspect.

Finding a door locked, they forced it open and found Joshua Ryan Martin, 22, of Camilla inside. They charged him with battery and obstruction of a police officer.

On Saturday, police arrested Ashley Renee Harlow in a domestic dispute at her 812 Doc Darbyshire Road Lot 7 residence.

Police took Harlow to jail after officers responded to the residence to a report from Wayne Baggett that Harlow and his son, Joshua Sanders, had been arguing all night and that it had at one point turned physical.

Harlow initially told police that nothing had happened but later said that she and Sanders wrestled over relationship issues.

Sanders, who ran into the woods as officers arrived but returned to the residence, told police that he and Harlow argued over a cell phone and that she scratched him.

Officers determined that she was the aggressor, police said, leading them to arrest her. Police charged Harlow, 26, with simple battery.

Arrests

Sheriff’s Office

• Wendell Fain Griffin Jr., 36, 617 Waites Road, Norman Park, was charged Sunday with theft by receiving stolen property.

Police arrested Griffin after finding at his residence a Bobcat 250 welder that was reported stolen.

The owner, John Cravey, 2600 block Rainwater Road, Tifton, had reported the theft of the welder, valued at $3,150, to Omega Police, and he later found it in Colquitt County at Griffin’s residence.

Griffin told police that two men and a woman brought the welder to his residence and left it there.

• Israel Langoire, 42, was charged Friday with pedestrian under the influence.

• Sarah Lise Croom, 19, was charged with two counts theft by taking and five counts theft by deception.

• Randall McKenley Crawford, 39, 1957 Sylvester Hwy. Lot 17, was charged Dec. 20 with criminal trespass and unlawful conduct during 911 call.

• Michael Garrett Brown, 31, 221 Blackberry Lane, was charged Sunday with theft by taking.

• Fred Joudie Brown III, 34, 2911 Sylvester Drive, was charged Sunday with pedestrian under the influence.

Moultrie Police

• Rico Laran Haynes, 21, 615 11th Ave. S.E., was charged Sunday with malicious mischief and disorderly conduct.

• Eric Nevil Fredrick, 42, 1420 Fifth Ave. S.E., was charged Saturday with contempt of court.

• Karey Jermaine Elliott, 32, 329 Hwy. 111, was charged with malicious mischief, disorderly conduct and two counts failure to appear.

Probation violation

Moultrie Police

• Tyler Lee Cook, 21, 334 W. Broad St., Doerun.

Thefts

Sheriff’s Office

• Julie Owens, 1000 block North Park Avenue, Tifton, reported Monday that a male acquaintance stole a diamond ring valued at $20,000 out of her purse while they were at a residence in the 2300 block of Georgia Highway 37 East.

• Steven Sims, 900 block Tree Farm Road, reported Saturday the theft of an aluminum shed and contents, including his father’s tools, from his former residence in the 500 block of George Flowers Road, Norman Park.

Sims told police that the landlord there had allowed him to leave it there until he could move it.

He later flagged down the officer to tell him he found the shed at a residence about a half-mile away. The resident there had a bill of sale indicating he bought it for $400.

The tools and several other items were not with the shed, Sims reported. He estimated the value of the stolen property at $7,500.

• Walter Thomas Sumner, 100 block Tallokas Trail, reported Friday the theft of a refrigerator and fencing with a total value of $1,800 from a rental property in the 200 block of Middlebrooks Street, Norman Park.

• James Smith, 6000 block Highway 37 East, reported Thursday the theft of a 6-by-12-foot black Anderson trailer valued at $1,250.

• Daryl McDuffie, 100 block Cherry Avenue, reported Thursday the theft of an HP Notebook laptop computer valued at $150.

Burglary

Sheriff’s Office

• Therisa Gandy, 4300 block Highway 188, Ochlocknee, reported Friday that women broke into a vacant residence in the 100 block of North Church Street in Funston.

Gandy reported that the back door had been forced open and was damaged, the ceiling torn apart in several places and all cabinets and drawers opened. She was not sure whether anything was stolen.

Fraud

Sheriff’s Office

• Heather Griffin, 200 block Blackberry Lane, reported Sunday that her cell phone account had been hacked and the phone rendered inoperable.

Property damage

Sheriff’s Office

• Morris Baker, 100 block Second Street Northeast, reported Dec. 21 that tenants at a rental mobile home in the 200 block of Selina Drive trashed the residence.

Baker told police a couple renting the house had asked for a rent extension until Dec. 9, which he granted. When he did not hear from them by Dec. 12 he went to the location and found that they had moved.

Inside the house, Baker told police, he found windows broken, blinds torn apart, porch screens cut, holes in the walls and a “general lack of cleanliness.”

Other investigations

Sheriff’s Office

• Esteban Cervantes, 200 block Tallokas Estates, reported Saturday that a driver who followed him apparently fired several shots at his 1984 Ford truck.

Cervantes told police that at about 6:15 while driving on Old Berlin Road a driver behind him closed to a small margin. He then heard what sounded like gunshots hitting the truck.

Police said there were six indentations in the rear of the flatbed truck behind the passenger and small, flat pieces of metal in the bed that appeared to be the same color as the indentations

Cervantes was not injured.