Crime Blotter: Aug. 31- Sept. 7
These briefs do not include every incident from the last week and suspects are presumed innocent until proven guilty. Information could change as investigations continue.
Two officers arrived at Marlboro St. at 4:08 a.m. on Sept. 6 after a man on his way home reported that a two-year-old African American boy was seen wandering the sidewalks and standing in the roadway near an apartment complex. The officer was able to help the boy back near his residence where a neighbor helped the officers to find the child’s apartment. The mother was charged with unlawful conduct toward a child, but told the officers that she believed her son to be asleep in his bedroom after putting him to bed at 10:30 p.m. The mother explained that her son does occasionally sneak out and leave the apartment to knock on neighbor’s doors. After seeing that the boy’s residence was safe and livable and that he was in good health, the two officers released the boy to his mother for the evening.
A University of South Carolina student was charged with public disorderly conduct and possession of another’s ID after officers on patrol in Five Points noticed a physical altercation outside of Bird Dog on Harden St. at 12:25 a.m. on Sept. 7. The officers stopped the altercation between the student and an employee of the bar and the employee explained that the student was causing trouble at the establishment. The officers could tell the 19-year-old Caucasian male was heavily intoxicated, slurred his words and smelled heavily of alcohol. After being apprehended for public disorderly conduct the officers discovered two South Carolina IDs, allowing the cops to add an additional ID charge to the case. The male was taken to Alvin S. Glenn Detention Center.
An officer was called multiple times to a house on Randall St. after a report of an intoxicated African-American man making inappropriate and sexually suggestive comments toward a woman walking on the street at 12 p.m. on Sept. 5. When confronted by officers the man was seen throwing a liquor bottle in a nearby dumpster, stumbling while walking, slurring his speech and drooling. The officer asked the man to vacate the premises and not return. In less than 20 minutes, the officer was called back to the same location as the man was seen yelling and carrying a big stick. The man was subsequently arrested and taken to Alvin S. Glenn Detention Center.