Police Blotter - 30 September 2010
Wednesday, September 29, 2010 at 10:00PM Compiled by Jonathan McFadden
COMMUNICATING THREATS VIA COMPUTER (FACEBOOK) (9/21/10)
At 6:40 p.m., a student met with a reporting officer in Lee Wicker’s lobby to report several threatening e-mails sent to her Facebook account.
Under the name CheVii Boo’Gatti Rose, someone sent the student obscene messages. One said, “I really put my all into you n loved you unconditionally n u f*** tried to play me yo but I tell you wut tho u should hope I don’t see u n yo dude again on different terms…”
The student said she is unsure of who the sender is, but she suspects it could be her ex-boyfriend because her current boyfriend received a similar e-mail around the same time.
The student said she blocked the sender from her account, but the person was able to send another message. At this time, she does not want to open an investigation.
PUBLIC DISORDERLY CONDUCT (9/23/10)
At 2:50 a.m., an officer reported to an incident of a black male harassing a female. The female said the male was telling her he was not going to hurt her as he walked behind her.
She quickly went into the Courtyard lobby and called the police. She said she thought the male was drunk.
The reporting officer and another officer found the male walking on Lee Street, just off Rose Street.
The reporting officer requested the male’s I.D. several times, but the male was avoiding taking it out. He also smelled like alcohol and appeared to be intoxicated.
He looked at the officers and said, “Ya’ll just Winthrop police. I ain’t on campus. Why ya’ll harassing me?”
The reporting officer once again told the male to display an I.D., but the male continued to stall and began looking around as if he wanted to run away.
The male then became loud and angry at having to show his I.D. and would not let the officers ask him anything.
The officers arrested the male, but he became more difficult to deal with as he was carried to jail.
In the police car, he yelled and was uncooperative all the way to Rock Hill City Jail.
SALE OF WINE/BEER TO A PERSON UNDER 21 (9/23/10)
At 10:40 p.m., a reporting officer observed a Honda Accord, without headlines on, pull out of the parking lot of the Shamrock gas station at the corner of Cherry Road at Richland Avenue.
The reporting officer stopped the driver and observed two cases of beer on the floor in the rear of the vehicle.
The officer requested the driver’s I.D., as well the I.D. of the passenger who was with him. The officer discovered that both were under 21.
The officer asked where the beer had come from. The driver said he went into the Shamrock gas station, walked to the beer cooler in the back and purchased two cases of beer and two alcoholic energy drinks.
The driver said he then went to the front counter, placed his items in front of the clerk and showed him his I.D., which shows the driver’s birthday as Jan. 5, 1992, - making him 18 years old.
The driver said the clerk said, “I remember you,” and sold him the beer. The driver agreed to go to Winthrop’s police department and give a statement of the events that took place.
Meanwhile, the officer went into the Shamrock gas station and asked the clerk about the sale of alcohol to the underage driver.
The clerk said he didn’t sell any alcohol to a person under 21 and would show the officer video footage from the store.
While watching the footage, the officer pointed out the 18-year-old driver purchasing alcohol at the counter.
The clerk said the driver’s I.D. showed he was born in 1987.
The officer told the clerk the driver didn’t have any I.D.’s showing he was born in 1987.
The clerk was issued a citation for sale of beer/wine to a person under 21. The driver was issued a summons to appear in court.
