According to crime reports and an interview with Eutaw Chief of Police Tommy Johnson, Abdullah Hassan Hafid of Leesburg, Virginia, was arrested Sunday evening in Eutaw and transported by ambulance to North Harbor medical facility in Northport, after vandalizing the William M. Branch Courthouse in Eutaw.

We were alerted by the Homestar system that a missing person from Virginia was at the Love’s Truckstop in Eutaw. Hafid’s brother had reported him as missing to this national system that tracks missing persons.

Chief Johnson said, ‘We went to Love’s and detained Mr. Hafid and put him in the back of a police car. He said that he was not feeling well, so we brought him to the Greene County Hospital. He broke a window at the hospital and jumped out. From there he went to vandalize the Courthouse.’

Using a rubber mallet or an iron bar, he broke the glass on the front door of the Courthouse. Then he broke the glass out of the second set of security doors. He went into the Court room and smashed the protective glass around the judge’s chair, broke a flat screen TV and a computer in the court room. He also damaged the judge’s chambers behind the court room.

The Eutaw Police Department arrested him and sent him by ambulance to North Harbor facility for the mentally ill. He is charged with trespassing and other crimes. Chief Johnson said no motive has been established for his crime spree. “We hope the staff at North Harbor can help us unravel the story of Mr. Hafid ‘s problems and reasons for attacking our courthouse.