West Columbia

Comanche Trail, 1000 block: A woman called police at midnight Thursday after she said her neighbors were threatening to beat her up. The 27–year–old woman told officers a woman from a neighboring apartment knocked on her door and accused her of telling the apartment manager the neighbor and her boyfriend were selling drugs out of the home. The woman said she told the neighbor she and the manager never talked, and she had no idea if they were selling drugs. Then the boyfriend came out and began swearing at and threatening the woman. She said he went to punch her at least twice, but his girlfriend held him back. She said the man told her she done messed with the wrong one and called her obscene names and threatened her with bodily harm.

tNorth 12th Street, 100 block: A woman was arrested and charged with public drunkenness at midnight Thursday after police found her sipping a beer on the curb in front of a gas station. The 45–year–old woman was holding a 24–ounce can of beer the label said contained 12 percent alcohol. Her speech was slurred, and she had trouble walking. She said she was drinking outside because they told her she couldn’t have the beer inside the gas station. She told them the beer had not gotten her drunk, but that she was still high from drinking that morning.

tSunset Blvd., 2300 block: Police arrested a woman at 3 p.m. Thursday after suspecting her of being in violation of her probation. The 26–year–old woman was identified, and a computer check was made to confirm she was wanted. Once she was placed under arrest, a search of her purse revealed a hypodermic needle commonly used for injecting drugs, cigarette papers commonly used for rolling marijuana, and a metal pipe with residue of crack cocaine in it. The woman informed officers they couldn’t charge her with any drug offenses as they didn’t find drugs but only paraphernalia. She proudly told them that she always left her drugs at home and only used other people’s while out.

Forest Acres

tPercival Road, 3000 block: Police were called to a home at 1 a.m. Wednesday after a woman said some thugs kicked in her sliding glass door. The woman told officers a group of males was outside her home yelling for her sons to come outside and fight. She said she told her sons not to go outside because she was afraid for their safety. After a few minutes of threats and demands to fight, she said one of the men kicked in her doors and then ran away. A short time later the woman said another man opened her storm door and threatened to kill everyone in the apartment. When officers spoke to the accused man, he denied the threats and breaking the sliding glass doors, but he admitted he did yell for the woman’s sons to come outside and fight.

tForest Hills Police Station: Parents brought their 16–year–old daughter to police headquarters at noon Thursday after the girl told them she had received pornography on her cell phone. Someone had texted the girl a close–up photo of a man’s genitals several times and each time the sender attached a message to the picture. The girl said she texted the sender back to ask who he was, and he told her his name and said another girl had given him her number. The girl said she didn’t know either of the two people, but the man kept sending the obscene photos with the name Superman on it. The girl said she knew someone by that name, but that wasn’t him in the pictures.

tTwo Notch Road, 3900 block: Police were called to a discount department store at 11 a.m. Tuesday after a clerk said a shoplifter tried to run her down. The woman told police a man entered the store, picked up two large bags of dog food and left without paying. She said she followed him out and confronted him, and he then tried to run her down with his vehicle. She was able to jump out of the way and wasn’t hurt, she said. The thief had blocked out his license tags with paper and tape so they couldn’t be read, the woman said.

tCleaton Road, 6900 block: Witnesses to an attack by a pool called police at 7:30 p.m. Monday after they said a man punched out a female sunbather. The 27–year–old alleged victim was uncooperative with the responding officers and refused to give them any information but witnesses said the man and woman were screaming profanities at each other when the man punched the woman in the face and then fled with three other men. The woman refused to identify her attacker and declined to press charges.