Forest Acres

tForest Drive, 3000 block: Police were called to a restaurant at 11 a.m. Tuesday after employees received complaints about a man vomiting out front. The man was slurring his speech and unsteady on his feet, but he told officers he was there to get something to eat. When they asked to see his money, he only had a quarter on him so they told him to go home and sleep it off. As he walked away he tossed an empty box of cigarettes on the ground so he was then charged with littering and disorderly conduct and taken to jail.

tArbor Drive, 200 block: A woman came into police headquarters at 8 a.m. Thursday to report someone was shooting her cat. The woman told police that in April, one of her cats was limping and when she took it to the vet an x–ray showed a pellet in the leg. Then on May 8 the same cat showed up with a broken leg, and this time there were two pellets found in the leg. She said a neighbor told her she had seen the boyfriend of a woman who lived on Partridge Drive, a nearby street, shooting at cats with a pellet gun.

tBethel Church Road, 4000 block: A woman came into police headquarters at 7 a.m. Monday after she said her husband had locked her out of their home. The woman told officers that the night before her husband wanted to have sex, and she didn’t so he began kicking her out of bed. He told her if they couldn’t have sex, she had to leave and took her keys away.

tPercival Road, 300 block: Police were flagged down at 4 a.m. Tuesday by a man who said he was robbed at gunpoint. The man told officers he walking along the road when a car with two men pulled up to ask him for directions. He said as he was giving the directions to the passenger, the driver got out and came around the car pointing a pistol at him demanding his wallet and cell phone. Then the duo drove off. The robbed man said he didn’t have any money in his wallet, but all of his identification and various credit cards were in it.

West Columbia

tAugust Road, 2000 block: A woman called police at 8 p.m. Thursday after she said a man threatened to burn up her grandchild. The woman told officers the man came into her bar demanding something that would “make his high go down,” but she told him she didn’t have anything. She refused to serve him so he left but returned several times angry because he said he was still “high,” and she wouldn’t help him. When she finally got him to leave he began to call her repeatedly telling her he knew where she lived and that he killed babies. He told her he was going to burn her grandchild “to a crisp” so she got frightened and called police.

tNorth Lucas Street, 800 block: A man called police at 11:30 p.m. Wednesday after he said that a strange man called him and threatened to kill his girlfriend. The caller then told the boyfriend he was going to kill himself, and the boyfriend tried to talk him out of that. After the boyfriend counseled the caller, the caller said he felt much better about himself, but he was still going to kill the girlfriend. The girlfriend said she had no idea who the caller could be, but he sounded “white and country.”

tLeaphart Road, 2400 block: A woman called police at 1 a.m. Wednesday and told them there was a strange man in her home with a straight razor. When officers arrived a man met them at the door and identified himself as the 49–year–old woman’s live–in boyfriend. He said the woman was very drunk, and she got mad at him because he refused to take her “out drinking at a bar.” When officers talked to the woman, she told them she had never seen the man before and that she had no idea who he was. She told them he had come to her birthday party, but now it was time for him to go home. The boyfriend said he would spend the night at a friend’s house until the woman sobered up and recognized him again.

tZiegler Drive, 800 block: A man called police at 2 p.m. Thursday after he said his “baby-momma” and her sister were harassing him by phone. The 18–year–old man told officers he had been released from jail that morning on criminal domestic violence charges the night before and the 17–year–old mother of his child and her 17–year–old sister were repeatedly calling him and yelling obscenities at him. He said they were being mean and rude to him.

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tEast Bridge Street, 80th block: A company contacted police Wednesday after they discovered they had paid almost $10,000 in workman’s compensation to a dead man. The company said they had been sending monthly checks to the man’s home since he had been unable to work, and the checks had been systematically cashed. Someone in the company’s bookkeeping department noticed that after a time the cashed checks had two signatures on them and after further investigation discovered the man had died in 2008. They want the woman who co–signed the checks to return the money but they can’t contact her.

tWorthington Parkway, 200 block: A very surprised woman called police at 9 a.m. Wednesday after she thought her car was stolen. The woman had leased the car from a rental agency and was unaware that it had been reported stolen and repossessed.

tGabriel Street, 200 block: A man was arrested at 3:30 p.m. Tuesday after trying to outrun police by car and on foot. The man was spotted leaving a known drug house and when he saw police following he began to speed away. He didn’t stop for the blue light or the siren, and when backup appeared and it looked as if he would be caught, he jumped from the moving vehicle and began to run through back yards and jumping fences. At one home he took off his shirt and tossed it in a carport and kept running until he fell to the ground exhausted and officers caught up with him. An inventory of the car produced marijuana, cocaine, a grinder commonly used to grind marijuana with residue in it, and a knife with cocaine residue on it. He denied knowing anything about drugs found in the carport and told officers that “what you got me on is all you gonna get me on.” He had a warrant and was driving on a suspended license as well the drug possession and traffic violations.