POLICE BLOTTER - 2 Sep. 2010

Compiled by TJ Staff

POSSESSION/CONSUMPTION OF LIQUOR UNDER 21 (8/21/10)

At 1:25 a.m., a reporting officer observed a black female vomiting in the parking lot of the Winthrop Operations Center, located at 520 Cherry Road.

The officer approached the female and detected a heavy odor of alcohol coming from her.

The officer asked her about the alcoholic odor and, at first, she said she had not been drinking. She later admitted to drinking liquor.

The reporting officer administered the PAS/vr alcohol screening sensor and she registered a reading. Due to her state of intoxication, she was arrested and transported to the Rock Hill Jail.

DISORDERLY CONDUCT (INTOXICATION) (8/21/10)

At 8:18 a.m., a reporting officer was sent to the West Thomson Residence Hall lobby in reference to a white male student who was being disorderly and hostile toward other individuals.

When the reporting officer arrived, he observed that the student was highly intoxicated. The student could not keep his balance and had trouble understanding the officer’s questions and directions. The officer also smelled alcohol on the student and noticed he was not wearing shoes or pants.

The officer escorted the student out of the West Thomson lobby and placed him under arrest.

After interviewing the student witness who had complained, the officer learned that the intoxicated student arrived at West Thomson by walking from his residence at Richardson in order to get breakfast in Thomson Café.

When he realized that Thomson did not open until 8:30 a.m., he began harassing other students in the lobby. When he noticed students ignoring him, he became belligerent towards them.

During the ride to the Rock Hill Law Center Jail, the intoxicated student passed out in the back of the patrol vehicle.

Once they arrived, the officer had to wake the student up and expend great effort in helping him out of the vehicle.

During this time, the student did not understand why he was under arrest or why he was being placed in a jail cell, though the officer had explained it to him several times.

While being booked, the student became somewhat aggressive to the reporting officer and the correctional officers by yelling and not sitting down.


FAILURE TO STOP FOR BLUE LIGHT, HABITUAL OFFENDER, DRIVING UNDER SUSPENSION (8/18/10)

At 10:46 p.m., a reporting officer observed a 1999 beige Nissan Sentra traveling eastbound on Oakland Avenue with no lights. The driver was operating the vehicle recklessly, weaving and bobbing between other vehicles.

The reporting officer turned around and followed the vehicle in an attempt to conduct a traffic stop. The officer turned on the blue lights while the driver drove the vehicle into the eastbound center lane of Oakland Avenue at Myrtle Drive.

The driver continued eastbound on Oakland without making any attempt to stop.

The reporting officer turned on his siren in addition to flashing his blue lights in an attempt to get the driver to pull over.

The driver then made a wide turn onto Sumter Avenue traveling toward Charlotte Avenue. The vehicle ran through the stop sign at Sumter and College Avenue and made a right turn onto Charlotte Avenue, still with no lights on.

Once on Charlotte Avenue, the driver began driving in the wrong lane of traffic, going head on toward oncoming vehicles.

The reporting officer still had his blue lights flashing and his siren blazing.

The driver turned left into the YMCA parking lot, went through the lot and turned onto Catawba Avenue. The driver leaped out of the vehicle and ran behind the houses located on Catawba, where a short chase ensued.

The driver was found hiding in a dog house behind one of the residences.

The driver, once arrested, told the reporting officer he didn’t stop because he knew he had no license.

The actual owner of the vehicle arrived where the car was abandoned and said the driver was her ex-boyfriend; he had the vehicle for about an hour.

The owner allowed the reporting officer to search her vehicle but nothing was found inside.

The vehicle was released to its proper owner and she willingly went to the Winthrop Police Department to give a written statement.

PUBLIC DISORDERLY INTOXICATION (8/29/10)

At 1:20 a.m., a reporting officer was checking property on foot at the Dalton Hall lot on Founders Lane when he noticed a male urinating in the breezeway area near the Richardson Hall loop.

The officer approached the male and detected an odor of alcohol coming from him.

The male said he had been drinking shots of unknown liquor. He also said that he had no idea of his whereabouts.

Further investigation revealed the male was a student at UNC-Charlotte and was at Winthrop visiting friends.

The male was taken to the Rock Hill Law Center Jail and issued a trespass notification from Winthrop.