West Columbia

tMarabou Circle, 200 block: A woman called police at 12:30 a.m. Tuesday after she said her husband was hitting her. When officers arrived the 53–year–old woman wouldn’t open the door and said everything was fine. They told her they had to make sure she was okay so she let them in and told them that she and her husband were in bed, and he began to yell in her ear. She said she yelled back in his ear so he would know what it felt like, and he elbowed her in the chest and knocked her out of bed injuring her foot and knee. The man came back while officers were there and told them that his wife had started the argument, and she was a chronic liar. He said she hit him, but he didn’t have any bruises or scratches and an examination of the woman revealed bruises and marks that confirmed her version of the story so he was charged with domestic violence and taken to jail.

tJefferson Street, 800 block: A distraught woman phoned police at 10 a.m. Thursday after she discovered her computer had been tampered with. The woman told officers her ex–husband had somehow hacked into her email accounts and reset all of her account information, access settings, and passwords. She said she had no idea how to get online to read her mail and wanted to prosecute.

tMeeting Street, 300 block: a man was arrested at 3 p.m. Tuesday after police spotted him stumbling in the street. The 43–year-–old man told officers he had just had a couple of drinks but insisted that he had dinner with them. When pressed for details because he was so intoxicated, he admitted to officers he had downed numerous beers and only a bowl of chips “to soak them up.” He said he was on his way back to his motel room, but he was walking in the opposite direction from where he said he was staying.

Forest Acres

tLakeview Circle, 30th block: Police were called to a home at 2 p.m. Wednesday after a maintenance serviceman reported that a customer had snatched his dog. The serviceman said he showed up at the residence to do the job that had been agreed to in a work order signed by the resident. When he was finished, he tried to collect from the resident, but the resident refused to pay. The serviceman showed him the work order, and the resident tried to grab it but missed. The serviceman then went to his vehicle to call his office and when he opened the door the resident snatched the serviceman’s small dog out of the van. He said he would trade the dog for the work order and locked himself in his home. When police arrived the man gave the dog back to the serviceman, but he denied that he had okayed the work order. No arrests were made but assault charges were pending.

tDecker Blvd., 2700 block: Two 11–year–old boys were charged with disorderly conduct Tuesday at 10 a.m. School officials said the duo was also causing suspicious fires in boys’ bathrooms on the school campus. An investigation revealed that several bathrooms had the charred remains of burnt papers, and the boys were seen going into the bathrooms on the school’s surveillance tapes. One of the boys admitted to bringing a lighter to school and setting paper on fire with it. Both boys’ parents were notified. There was no damage to the school from the fires.

tBarnes Spring Road, 3000 block: A woman called police at 9 p.m. Tuesday after she said her former boyfriend and the father of two of her children threatened to “shoot up” her home. The woman told officers that the ex–boyfriend was upset because he thought her current boyfriend had “snitched” on him for not paying child support. She said he threatened to put a cigarette out in her face and slapped her. She said she got away and locked herself in her home, but the man then began kicking her car, and he threw a trash can at it. He then yelled at her he was coming back that night to “shoot up” the house with her in it. He had custody of the children that night so the woman was worried that he might carry out the threat.

tLakeshore Drive, 5000 block: A woman called police at 2 a.m. because she said her downstairs neighbor was beating on the ceiling with a broom and she couldn’t sleep. When police arrived, the officer went into the woman’s bedroom and could hear the noise as well as feel the vibrations. He went downstairs to talk to the neighbor and found the 50–year–old woman severely intoxicated. The officer said he had to explain several times she wasn’t allowed to beat on her ceiling, but the woman couldn’t grasp what he was saying. The neighbor’s boyfriend came home during the incident and told officers he would try to keep the woman from continuing to beat on the ceilings, but when she was intoxicated beating on the ceiling was her way of dancing.

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tWestmore Road at Humphries Drive: Three men were arrested at 9 p.m. Tuesday after their car was pulled over for not signaling on a turn. When deputies approached the car, they smelled marijuana and asked the driver to step out. He said he couldn’t, but the deputy insisted. As the driver got out of the car, he spilled a beer he was trying to hide on the floor and a marijuana cigar fell into the beer puddle. The man explained that was why he initially refused to get out of the car, because he didn’t want to spill his beer or drop his drugs. The passenger was observed trying to stuff a bag of the pot into his pants and the back seat passenger was sitting in a pile of ripped open marijuana cigars so it was obvious they had interrupted some sort of drug deal.

tRiverwind Drive, 1600 block: A woman called police at 11 p.m. Thursday after she said that her baby’s father’s ex–girlfriend was harassing her. The woman told deputies that the ex–girlfriend apparently wanted to get back with her “baby-daddy,” but he wasn’t interested as he was now with the current girlfriend. The current girlfriend said that the former girlfriend would show up at her home and beat on the door, yelling for the man and rattling the lock. The current girlfriend said she was afraid the ex would eventually get inside the home, and she was frightened of her.