tCenter Street, 500 block: A man called police at 3:30 Thursday after he said his former neighbors were stalking him. The 34–year–old man told officers the neighbors, a man and a woman, had harassed him when he lived in an apartment above them on the outskirts of town. He said he has moved several times since then, and everywhere he goes the couple shows up. He said he lived in a house, and they would walk around it shining flashlights in his windows. Now he said they have tapped his phone lines and listen in on his conversations. He also said that they have tapped a pay phone at a gas station near his house where he started making phone calls after they tapped his home phone. No arrests were made as the accusing man didn’t know the couple’s name or where they lived.

tSunset Blvd., 300 block: Police were called to a business at 10:30 am Friday after a manager said that a terminated employee spit on him and threatened to kill him. The man told officers the 24–year–old female employee had not reported for her shift the day before, and that was cause for termination. When he informed the woman of that, he and two other witnesses said the woman began to yell and swear at him then spit in his face and told him she would come back to “kill” him.

t12th Street, 200 block: A woman added charges to her record Thursday when she showed up for court holding drugs. The 35–year–old woman was appearing in court on charges of shoplifting and possession of marijuana but didn’t bring the money to pay her fine. She did, however, manage to remember to stock her purse with a variety of illegal drugs. Because she couldn’t pay the fine, she was taken into custody from the court hearing and, subsequently, booked on the charges, as she had been warned she would be. During the arrest procedure, the woman and her purse were searched. While searching the purse, officers discovered a syringe commonly used for shooting cocaine or heroine and asked the woman why she would bring that to a court of law. The woman said she was only holding the needle for “her friend,” who was the real drug addict but further searching revealed she also had marijuana, methamphetamine, illegal Xanax, and ocycodone.

Richland County

tBush River Road at Morningside Drive: A man was arrested at 1:30 am Friday after he was pulled over for driving into oncoming traffic on Bush River Road. When police hit the blue lights, the man pulled into a parking lot but didn’t stop until he pulled out of another driveway onto the roadway, a report said. His car had two flat tires on the right side that the driver said “may have been from running over a curb.” When he got out of the vehicle, officers realized he was extremely intoxicated due to his inability to stand straight, his bloodshot eyes, and slurred speech. The man only spoke broken English, but he refused to take the field sobriety test. He admitted to an evening of Tequila shots washed down with numerous beers but told officers he couldn’t go to jail as he was on his way to meet his friends at a “gentleman’s” club. Nevertheless, he was arrested and given a breathalyzer test. He blew .16, double the legal limit. Although his car was legally registered to him, the man had no driver’s license.

tRiver Drive at Sunset Drive: A man was arrested at 3 am Friday after deputies saw him acting suspiciously and approached his car. When they got to the car, the man had several marijuana cigars strewn about the vehicle and a bag of pot on the seat in plain view. He was placed under arrest but somehow got his cuffed hands in front of his body after he was put in the police car and became combative. He ignored several commands to relax and place his hands behind his back so he had to be tased. Even after the deputy tased the six foot, 190 pound man in the arm, he broke away and tried to run. The other officer then tased him again before they were able to gain control and get him back in the car.

USC Campus Police

tLincoln Street, 800 block: Maybe it was changes in latitude or changes in attitude, but police were notified on Monday that someone attending the Feb. 23 Jimmy Buffet concert was passing out fake $100 bills for cocktails, food, and memorabilia. Five of the counterfeit bills were found when the final tally of the concert was being taken at the collection center. One bill was taken from a merchandise booth, but the other four were passed at the various concession stands. All of the serial numbers were almost exactly alike except for being one number or letter off, a report said.

tDevine Street, 1500 block: A man was arrested at 5 am Wednesday after police found him napping in his car with the car running. Officers tried to wake the driver, but he didn’t stir even as they knocked loudly on the window, a report said. The door was unlocked so they were able to turn off the car and shake the driver into consciousness and get him out of the vehicle to try and asses his condition. Due to an intense alcohol smell and the driver’s slurred speech, they knew he was drunk. They asked for his license and he gave them one that said he was 21 but then admitted that he had forged that one and gave them his real one that said he was 20. The genius was charged with possessing an altered license as well as the drunk charges.

Forest Acres

tClemson Road, 5000 block: A 14–year–old boy was arrested and charged with assault after a teacher said he punched him in the face with a closed fist. The teacher told officers the boy was arguing with another student and screaming and swearing. The teacher is authorized to be able to restrain disruptive students according to a report so he put the boy into an empty classroom. At that point the teacher said the boy punched him. When officers arrived, they found the teacher restraining the student on the floor and the student screaming and threatening the teacher as well as yelling he didn’t care about being arrested. This was the 14–year–old’s second attack in as many days so he was charged with assault and battery on school property and taken to jail.