Forest Acres

tGlenbrook Circle, 100 block: A 78-year-old woman called police at 1 p.m. Thursday after she said she had received several phone calls from a man she didn’t know. She told officers the caller told her she had won 1.5- million dollars, and all she had to do to collect it was to send in $150 to a post office box. The woman said the number was restricted and didn’t show up on her phone. She said she had told the caller she wasn’t interested, but he continued to call her and insist that she had indeed won the money and by sending him the $150, the millions would be on the way to her door. tForest Drive, 4000 block: Police were called to a restaurant at 9:30 p.m. Wednesday after witnesses said the manager of a neighboring bar burst into the eatery and started accusing the restaurant employees of dumping their trash into his dumpsters. The manager of the restaurant told officers this was not the first time this had happened, and her employees were not dumping anything into the bar’s dumpsters. She said the bar manager had come in and caused a similar scene several times, and she wanted him trespassed from the property. tNorth Beltline Blvd., 2000 block: A woman called police at 6 p.m. Wednesday after she said she returned home from a trip and someone had been in her apartment. The 37-year-old woman told officers there were scratches on the door and paint chips on the floor where the intruder had apparently tried to jimmy the door. She said she suspects it’s her former boyfriend because since their break-up a few weeks ago, he had been calling incessantly and texting her even though she said she made it plain she did not want any contact with him. She said the man had called or texted her over 150 times in one day and even left a message that a mutual friend of theirs had been shot in order to get her to take his call. She wants all contact with the man to stop, but she believes he gained access to her apartment because things were not in the same places where she left them, so now she said she didn’t feel safe there.

Richland County

tPercival Road, 300 block: A mother called police at 7 a.m. Thursday after she said some older boys were bullying her five-year-old son. The mother said that on Wednesday she had called police because a nine-year-old boy had pushed her son off his bike as he rode by a group of kids. The mother said she confronted the group when her son told her what had happened, but she never accused any particular child. On Thursday, while waiting on the school bus, one of the older boys again attacked her five-year-old and pushed him to the ground, causing him to hurt his hands as he fell on the pavement. That incident was witnessed by the younger boy’s cousins, and now the mother wants to prosecute. tCovenant Road, 3000 block: A 68-year-old man called police at 2 a.m. Thursday after he said his 50-yearold roommate had gone crazy on him. The man said he was asleep in his room when the woman began to beat on his door and was yelling and screaming. He said he didn’t open the door because he was afraid she would hurt him. The woman said she had heard noises outside and was merely trying to wake the man up to help her, but he refused to leave his room. The woman was angry at the man for not assisting her when she heard people outside the home, and the man was angry at the woman for waking him up, so reporting officers suggested the two separate for the night. Both parties agreed to the separation, and no charges were filed.

West Columbia

tAugusta Road, 2000 block: Police were called to a restaurant at 9:30 p.m. Tuesday after employees said a man was causing a disturbance and appeared to be intoxicated. When officers arrived, the employees told them that the man, who appeared to be in his 60s, had come in and demanded to use the phone. When he was told he couldn’t use the phone because it was behind the counter, the man began to yell and swear. He then walked out and started walking to a neighboring fast food restaurant. The officers saw him walk across the drive between the two eateries and fall off the curb into the drive-way, get up, and then fall again on the other curb. They approached him and asked for his identification. He refused and began calling them obscene names and making lewd suggestions as what they could do to him and themselves. They smelled alcohol on his breath, and his speech was slurred. They asked him his name, and he kept giving them the names of fictional super-heroes. He was charged with disorderly conduct and public drunkenness and arrested. All the way to jail he kept yelling, swearing, and calling the officers names. He refused to give them his real name because he said they couldn’t hold him in jail if they didn’t know who he was. He was informed that he could indeed be held until he was identified, and while that stopped his verbal onslaught of the officers, he still refused to give them his name. tEmanuel Drive, 100 block: A woman called police at 6 p.m. Monday after she said her mother’s 44-year-old ex-boyfriend was stalking and threatening her. The 22- year-old woman told officers her mother had wanted to break up with the man, whom the mother was living with at the time, so the daughter told her mother she could come and stay with her. Ever since her mother moved in, the daughter said the former boyfriend had been threatening her for helping her mother leave him. She said the man called her continuously and told her if she didn’t kick her mother out, he would slash her tires and burn her house down. He then called her boss at the restaurant where she worked and told him she was stealing and giving away free food to her family. She said her job was in jeopardy, and she and her mother were in fear for their safety.