The blotter comes from police reports released by the USC Division of Law Enforcement and Safety and doesn’t include crimes reported by city or county law enforcement.
— Officers saw a man who appeared unsteady on his feet at the corner of Bull and Greene streets around 5:30 p.m. March 16. The man “spit all over himself” and attempted to enter the Callcott Social Science Center. After initially refusing to stop when police asked him to, the man told the officers that he did not know where he was or where he was going and that he was “very confused about being confused.” The officers noticed that he smelled of alcohol and called paramedics. He was transported to Palmetto Health Baptist.
— An officer witnessed a student facing the road and urinating under a street lamp while a large group of people walked by him early in the morning of March 17. As the student was zipping up his pants, the officer made contact with him and noticed that the student was slurring his words and smelled strongly of alcohol. The student said that he had been drinking in Five Points and was on his way back to his residence hall. After searching the student, the officer found a fake Florida ID in his pocket and placed him under arrest for public disorderly conduct.
— Public Intoxication of the Week: An officer saw a man who appeared to be intoxicated walking near the corner of Gibbes Court and Barnwell Street early in the morning of March 17. The officer saw the man attempt to enter a house at 16 Gibbes Court, and, once the man learned the door was locked, he began urinating on the front corner of the house. The officer then approached the man, who smelled strongly of alcohol and said that he was staying with a friend who lived in the house but did not own it or have a key. When the officer asked the man to call his friend, the man stated that he had lost his phone and could not remember his friend’s phone number. The officer called a taxi to bring the man to a hotel for the night and warned the man that if he returned, he would be arrested. Thirty minutes later, the man returned and was arrested for public intoxication.
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Editor’s Note: USC’s Division of Law Enforcement and Safety only made detailed reports available for incidents on or before March 18 as of Sunday afternoon. Basic information about incidents on or before March 22 were available on the division’s website, but without reports._