West Columbia

tBoozer Street, 500 block: A man was arrested at 8:30 p.m. Thursday after he was accused of assaulting his girlfriend and her son. The woman told police the man showed up at her home drunk, and they argued. She said she told him to leave, but he then threw a beer bottle at her door, breaking the glass. She said she went inside to call police, but while she was on the phone, the boyfriend kicked the door in, causing $300 in damages. The 36–year–old man rode away on his bicycle when he realized police were on the way. A few hours later, another call came into headquarters regarding a fight between the boyfriend and the girlfriend’s son. The son told officers the man slapped his mama, and he was protecting her. The boyfriend said he only came back to apologize for the damage to her door, but the woman began yelling at him for leaving beer bottles in her yard, and he got angry and slapped her, but he said he didn’t slap her very hard. He left when the son got involved, but officers found him a few blocks away and charged him with assault. His bicycle was confiscated.

tMcSwain Drive, 100 block: Police were called to a home at midnight Thursday after a woman said her brother threatened her with a knife because she wanted to take him to the dentist. The woman told police she and her brother were arguing about the dentist appointment when he told her he knew where she kept her knives and how to use a knife. The brother admitted he argued with his sister, but he denied threatening her. He explained to officers that he really didn’t like to go to the dentist.

tWest Columbia Police Department: A woman went to the police department at 4 p.m. Friday to ask for help in getting her former boyfriend to stop harassing her. The woman is pregnant with the man’s child, but she said she wants to end the relationship. The woman told officers she broke up with the man three weeks ago, but he continuously calls and texts her, begging her to come back to him. She said he gets angry when she tells him she doesn’t want to reconcile and says vile things to her. She said they had bought a crib for the baby, but he refused to let her have it unless she came back to him.

tAlexander Road, 500 block: A woman called police at 3 a.m. Friday after she said a woman she knew beat her up. The 20 –year–old woman told officers she had been out partying with her friends and when she got home, all of a sudden the door on her side of the car opened, and she was dragged out by her hair. She said once she was on the ground the other woman began to pummel her with closed fists. Some of the assailant’s friends pulled her off, and they all drove away, the woman said. She said she had no idea why the woman was mad at her.

Forest Acres

tSandy Ridge Road, 4000 block: Police were called to a home at 6 p.m. Tuesday by a crisis hotline operator who said she had a man on the phone who told her he had shot himself in the stomach. When officers arrived at the home, they had to break in through some French doors, but they found the man to be unharmed, and there were no signs of any gunfire. The man told the officers he just told the operator he had shot himself, but that he didn’t even own a gun. He was taken to the hospital for mental and physical evaluation with charges pending.

tCarlyle Circle, 100 block: A woman called police at 3 p.m. Wednesday after she said she received a strange call from a man claiming to be her grandson. The 84–year–old woman told officers the caller sounded as if he were crying and told her he was in big trouble. The caller told the woman he had been arrested in Haiti and needed $1,840 for bail money. He gave the woman explicit instructions to go to one of two offices to wire the money to a specific office in Haiti. The man called again while the officer was at the woman’s home taking the report. The officer took the call but didn’t identify himself as a police officer at first. The caller again assured the officer, who he apparently thought was the woman’s husband or a relative at the time, that he was the woman’s grandson and had indeed been arrested in Haiti. When the officer told the caller he was a police officer, the pseudo–grandson promptly hung up and didn’t answer any returned calls. The caller didn’t realize the woman had caller identification. The number used to call the woman is still under investigation.

Richland County

tPercival Road, 300 block: A 16–year–old boy was arrested at 2 a.m. Tuesday after he disappeared from a birthday party at Chucky Cheese on Saturday night and then turned up at his home Tuesday. The boy’s mother called police and said the boy returned after being missing for three days, but he refused to tell her where he had been, who he had been with, or where he got a strange new cell phone he was carrying and she hadn’t bought for him. Officers tried to reason with the boy, but he became loud and boisterous, screaming at the officers and calling them names and using obscenities. They took the cell phone from him, which really set him off and caused him to throw a full tantrum. He was told several times to go inside and be quiet while they talked to his mother, but he refused. When he became more aggressive about the cell phone, they charged him with disorderly conduct and for being a runaway.