A twenty-five-year-old Summerville woman was arrested early on Thursday morning after a complaint about someone “banging on (a) door with a large stick.”

Officers arrived and spoke with the complainant who said that shortly before midnight on Wednesday, someone was on her porch banging on the door.  The complainant told the responding deputy that it was a male subject.  A search of the area did not turn up a male suspect, but the deputy “did come across a female subject in the area” that he identified as Amber Hovater.   The deputy said that he did not see any damage to the house where the incident had happened and went back on patrol.

About thirty minutes later, the deputy was called to a nearby residence in reference to someone on the property.  This time, the complainant said that Ms. Hovater had been on the complainant’s mother’s porch and she wanted to press charges.

The deputy arrested Ms. Hovater and transported her to the Chattooga County Jail.  A short time later, the complainant brought several pieces of “decorative wood” that had been broken off her mother’s porch by for deputies to see.

Hovater was charged with destruction of property along with criminal trespass charges.