Summerville Journal Scene ®
Bad idea
Officers dispatched to a residence in Newington Plantation to serve a warrant found an intoxicated man, who was the person named in the warrant, standing in the front yard of a residence.
One of the officers asked the man to come over to them so they could speak; the man replied that he was fine where he was. The officer then told him he had a warrant for the man and he needed tocome with the officer, to which the subject replied, “I don’t care.”
The officer again repeated that he had a warrant and the subject was coming with him and the man began to move around the porch area of the residence, and then took an aggressive stance. The officer pulled his Taser and the subject told him he didn’t care and to go ahead and tase him.
A woman in the house then came to the window and told the officer the subject was going to fight.
The subject got into a fighting stance and took a step toward the officer, who hit him with a five-second jolt from the taser. The man hit the ground and they were able to place him in handcuffs. They asked the subject if he needed medical attention and he told them he did not.
They then transported the subject to the Berkeley County Detention Center.
High price for a soda
Officers responded to a call on Trolley Road about a suspicious person loitering near the Martin’s Creek Office Building. The caller, a concerned citizen, reported seeing a white male wearing a sleeveless black shirt and shorts standing near a white pickup truck. The caller said the subject then grabbed what appeared to be a pry bar from the truck and attempted to break into a soda machine on the property. The complainant then got into the truck and drove into a nearby apartment complex.
A few minutes later an officer saw the vehicle described by the caller and stopped it. The officer saw the driver making furtive movements in his seat. Then, before the officer could explain why he was stopping the subject, the subject blurted out that he didn’t know why he was being stopped because he had not done anything wrong. He also acted nervous, sweating profusely and hands shaking. He told the officer he was lost – yet had a GPS device on his dashboard.
Because of all this, the officer ordered him out of the car and placed him in handcuffs pending further investigation. The officer explained that someone said they saw him trying to break into a soda machine nearby. The man denied this, saying he had never left his vehicle, except once to look for some cigarettes in the vehicle.
The caller then arrived and positively identified the subject as the one who was at the incident location. The officer arrested the man for loitering since he could not explain why he was at the incident location. Further investigation turned up three pry bars in his truck. There were scratches on the soda machine, which seemed consistent with marks that would be made with one of the pry bars.
The subject was transported to the Dorchester County Detention Center.
Auto break in
A Pine Forest man reported that someone broke into his car, a PT Cruiser convertible, by cutting two holes in the convertible roof, then stole a Garmin GPS device. The Garmin is worth $129; the subject did $1,500 in damage to get to it.
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