POLICE BLOTTER - 27 Jan. 2011
Wednesday, January 26, 2011 at 8:26PM Compiled by Monica Kreber
kreberm@mytjnow.com
PETTY LARCENY (1/19/11)
At 1:30 p.m. Wednesday, the Winthrop Police Department received notification through its GPS tracking device that a bait bike had been taken from the bike rack in front of Wofford Hall, the police report said.
A Winthrop dispatcher advised the reporting officer the bike was traveling toward the Winthrop Commons shopping mall. The officer observed the suspect operating the bike in that area. The suspect got off the bike in front of the Cash Advance store and walked inside.
At this point, the officer approached the suspect and asked him if the bike was his. The suspect told the officer it was.
The officer placed the suspect under arrest. At that time, the suspect admitted he saw the bike at Wofford, noticed it wasn’t locked and took it. The suspect was transported to the Rock Hill Law Center Jail, according to the report.
POSSESSION/CONSUMPTION OF BEER UNDER 21 (1/20/11)
A reporting officer was patrolling the Student Activities Center parking lot when he noticed two males sitting in a vehicle parked at the back of the building.
The officer approached them and, when the males opened the window, smelled marijuana.
The officer asked both males to step out of the vehicle, while the reporting officer and another officer on the scene searched the vehicle.
Both males also had the smell of alcohol on them. The officers gathered their information and realized that neither was 21. The officers administered the PAS/VR test and both registered a reading.
The first male received a ticket for possession and consumption of alcohol under 21. The other male was arrested and taken to Rock Hill City Jail because he was being uncooperative.
DRIVING WITHOUT INSURANCE (1/22/11)
At 6:35 p.m., an officer stopped a black Isuzu after checking the tags on the North Carolina vehicle.
The tag had been revoked for no insurance and the officer asked the subject if he had insurance.
The report said the subject gave the officer the run-around about insurance, and later admitted there was supposed to be insurance through Allstate.
The officer issued the subject a ticket for operating an uninsured vehicle and had the Isuzu towed.
