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Crime Beat 06/24/09

Published Tuesday, June 23, 2009 12:30 PM

By David Berman
Summerville Journal Scene ®

Robber makes HIV threat

A man who robbed a Bacons Bridge Road pizzeria June 16 reportedly told an employee he would stab her with an HIV-infected needle if she did not cooperate with his requests.

According to a Dorchester County Sheriff’s Office report, witnesses saw the man sitting on a bench outside Pizza Hut until all the customers were gone. He then entered the store and immediately went around the counter, demanding an employee give him money, the report says.

After the employee pulled money from a cash register, he pressed a second employee — the one he threatened to stab with the HIV-infected needle — to open another register and a locked safe, the report says. She was unable to open either one and the man fled the store.

Bottomless shopper

Summerville police arrested a 36-year-old Ladson man June 17 after two women, and then an officer, caught him with his pants down at Azalea Square, a report shows.

The two women parked in front of Pier 1 Imports to do some shopping about 1:40 p.m. when the man pulled in alongside them. He was staring at them while “touching himself in a sexually explicit manner,” the report says.

This continued even as one of the women was removing her baby from the vehicle, she said. She called police and he kept doing it as she was making the phone call, she said.

When the reporting officer arrived, he could see the man was exposed before he pulled up his pants, the report says. The man was charged with indecent exposure.

Attack victim blacks out

A 65-year-old Lincolnville man said he lost consciousness outside a Summerville area apartment complex June 18 when two teens hit him in the head with a blunt object and repeatedly kicked him, a sheriff’s office report shows.

The man does not speak English, but through his daughter he explained that he was leaving a friend’s apartment about 6:30 p.m. when the two suspects, age 14, asked him for some money. He turned them down and kept walking. Suddenly, he felt a blunt object strike his head, he said.

He recalled seeing a large black rock or piece of asphalt fall to the ground after he was hit, he said. The two suspects began kicking him in his ribs and abdomen. He lost consciousness and awoke in his home about 90 minutes later, he said.

A friend had found him, he said, and carried him home. His wallet and its contents were intact, but his cell phone was missing.

Deputies met with the man and his daughter at a local emergency room, where he was being treated. He was wearing a cervical collar and backboard, the report says.

Contact David Berman at 873-9424 ext. 214 or dberman@journalscene.com

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