West Columbia
Augusta Road: Police were called to a home at 2 a.m. Tuesday after a woman said she and her husband awakened to the sound of breaking glass. As she called the police, her husband went to investigate the noise, she heard her husband yelling. She went out into the kitchen to find her husband yelling at a strange man standing in her kitchen. The man had obviously entered through a broken window over the sink. As her husband demanded to know what the man was doing in their house at that hour, the man crawled back out the window and fled on foot. When the police arrived, they found the man from the couple’s description a short distance away. They asked him what he was up to and he told them he “only went into that house” because “God” told him to. He never said whether God told him why he should go into the home but he was charged with trespassing into an enclosed dwelling and taken to jail without further incident. A mental evaluation may be ordered when he is arraigned.
Center Street: A woman was arrested at 8:30 p.m. Friday after officers leaving the scene of a larceny saw her in the street yelling and swearing. When they tried to approach her to find out what was wrong, she lay down in the middle of the road and was impeding traffic. She refused to talk to them but as they were charging her with disorderly conduct, she tried to flee. They caught her but at that time she stiffened her body and kept turning away from them to avoid being handcuffed. The officers called for backup and once she was cuffed, the woman again turned her body into dead weight and laid down again. The officers had to pick her up and physically place her in the patrol car. On the way to the jail, the woman became combative and aggressive. She somehow got out of the handcuffs and began to yank on the wires in the vehicle. The officers had to stop to recuff her and she continued to scream and yell all the way to the jail. Once there she kicked out the rear passenger window with her feet before she could be subdued and placed in a cell. She was charged with resisting arrest, public disorderly conduct, and for being a pedestrian in the roadway.
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