POLICE BLOTTER - 1 Nov. 2011

Compiled by Amanda Phipps

LARCENY OF AUTO (10/23/11)

At 2:00 p.m., a student notified Winthrop police that he parked his car in the legion lot on Sunday, and when he returned he could not find his vehicle, according to the police report. A reporting officer went through the parking lot with the victim and did not locate the vehicle. The victim called his parents, who told him that they had not taken the vehicle nor was there a possibility of it being repossessed, according to the police report. The vehicle was listed in the NCIC (National Crime Information Center) database, according to the report. 

DAMAGE TO PROPERTY (CLOTHING) (10/25/11)

At 9:26 p.m., a Winthrop reporting officer met with the victim in the lobby of Wofford Hall, according to the police report. The victim stated that she went to the Wofford laundry room to wash her clothes, but found that all washers were occupied. The victim stated that she saw a load of clothes that was in a washer, but was finished washing. The victim said she then moved the clothes from that washer to a dryer and started it. The victim placed her clothes into the empty washer and washed them, according to the police report. The victim then left the laundry room. After the victim left the laundry room, the suspect entered the room and saw that her clothes had been moved. The suspect left the room and the victim returned a few minutes later. The suspect returned and asked the victim why she had moved her clothes. The victim did not respond to the suspect. The victim said the suspect has told her she would do something to the victim’s clothes, according to the report. The victim said she had not believed the suspect would do anything to her clothes. The victim moved her clothes to a dryer and left the laundry room. The suspect returned to the laundry room with a clothesbasket with a bottle of bleach in it. The suspect then removed the bleach from the basket and put it on a table, according to the police report. The suspect removed her clothes from a dryer and waited until two other females left the room. Once they left, the suspect took the bleach and opened a dryer. The suspect made sure no one was around and poured the bleach onto the victim’s clothing, according to the report. The suspect then replaced the cap on the bleach and put the bottle in the basket and covered it with her clothes, according to the report. The victim returned a little later to find that her clothes had been damaged due to the bleach. After reviewing video footage for the laundry room, Winthrop police identified and contacted the suspect, who admitted she poured the bleach on the victim’s clothes because she was mad. Police gave the victim a victim notification form, according to the police report.