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Crime beat 2/19

Published Thursday, February 18, 2010 12:22 PM

By Jim Tatum
Summerville Journal Scene ®

Not the place to camp…

A deputy dispatched to give the once over to a suspicious vehicle parked at Rolling Meadows in Summerville found a white SUV parked at the end of the road on part of someone’s driveway. The car was running; the windows rolled up and doors locked; and three male subjects were asleep or passed out inside.

The officer woke up the driver by knocking on the window with his flashlight. When the driver opened the door, the officer reported smelling the odor of burned marijuana and alcohol coming from inside the vehicle.

The officer detained the driver, searched him, and put him in the back of his patrol car and called for another unit.

A second deputy arrived and they got the other two subjects out of the car and searched them, finding 19 generic Xanax pills.

A search of the car turned up a woman’s purse, two GPS devices, several phone chargers, and tobacco removed from a cigar. The subjects admitted smoking marijuana prior to the deputy’s arrival, as well as stealing the pills, a makeup bag, and a GPS device from other vehicles.

The deputies called the parents of two of the subjects and released them to their custody; they transported the third subject to the detention center after discovering he had a warrant against him.

The DCSO Criminal Investigation Division will follow up with the investigation.

Easy rider

An officer on patrol in downtown Summerville saw a man riding a bicycle erratically with no headlight, making him difficult to see in the dark. The officer stopped him, explained why he was stopping the subject, and asked what the subject was doing. The rider replied that he was on his way home. The officer noted the man’s speech was slurred and he smelled strongly of alcohol. Then the officer noticed a large bulge in the man’s waistband and asked if he had any weapons. The man reached for his left side and said he had a sheet rock knife.

The officer told the subject to put his hands on his head; the officer searched him, finding another knife, a small bag with rock particles, and a red cylinder. When the officer asked him if the particles were crack cocaine, the man said, “I think it is– it looks like it.” He also said he didn’t know where it came from.

The man was transported to the detention center.

Social Security supplement

The owner of a discount beer and wine store on Trolley Road reported that a 54-year-old white male subject who frequents his place of business came in to cash a check for $1,850. The victim said the man comes in regularly to his store to cash his Social Security check; the check this time was from something called Melnyk Racing Stables Inc.

The victim said he cashed the check on Jan. 20 and his bank informed him two days later that the check was counterfeit and they were charging the amount against his account.

The case is under investigation.

Choose words carefully

Deputies responding to a disturbance at a late-night club on Dorchester Road found themselves dealing with another incident: four black males involved in a fight in the parking lot. However, when they approached them, two of the subjects ran away, jumped into a car, and fled the area.

One of the officers returned to the scene of the fight to find two armed security guards had the remaining two subjects in custody, with one in handcuffs and the other held at gunpoint.

One of the security guards told the officers that the subject in handcuffs had tried to get into a vehicle while yelling that he was going for his gun. The security guard responded by thoroughly pepper spraying the subject and putting him in handcuffs.

Officers searched the subjects and the vehicle but found no gun. As neither subject had warrants against them, the officers released them.

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