Columbia Star

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Quirky Crimes in the Capital City





 

 

West Columbia

tInview Drive, 100 block: Police were called to a home at 4 p. m. Tuesday after neighbors complained of a man and woman arguing. As officers approached the house, they heard screaming and yelling and a male voice said, “I’m going to jail today.” The man then began walking toward the officers where he was escorted outside. He was covered in scratch marks and had lacerations to his face. The officers separated the couple to get each other’s side of the story, and the 20-year-old man told the officer with him that he and his sister got into an argument after he criticized her cooking. The man told the officer that the verbal dispute escalated and the two started pushing and shoving each other. Another officer was with the 17-year-old sister, and she gave a similar account of the chain of events. She had scratches and lacerations on her arms and face as well. Neither sibling wanted medical attention and both declined to press charges.

tCenter Street, 700 block: Police were called to a home at 6 p.m. Thursday after a man called 911 and said his girlfriend was trying to kill him. The 24-year-old man told the emergency operator that his girlfriend had a knife, and he was locked in his bedroom, but she was trying to break the door down. When officers arrived, the 24-year-old woman was sitting on a battered car screaming that her boyfriend had given her a sexually transmitted disease. One officer stayed with the woman and another went to speak to the man. The man explained that his girlfriend had discovered she had the infection, and when she confronted him, he admitted to his infidelity in the relationship. He then had to tell her that she caught the disease from him. He said at that point the woman grabbed a steak knife and ran into the front yard. He was afraid she would harm herself, so he went out after her. Just as he got to the front door, he saw her throw a cinder block through the back window of his car and begin to slice all four of his tires with the steak knife. She then ran back into the house with the knife, at which point he said he ran outside to retaliate, and he threw a cinder block through the back window of her vehicle. She then became incensed and began to chase him with the steak knife. That’s when he said he locked himself in the bedroom and called police. She broke the door down, and he said he tried to hold it with his body, but she kept swinging the knife at him. Both people were arrested and charged with vandalism and the woman, who was deemed to be the initial aggressor, was additionally charged with aggravated assault.

t12th Street, 600 block: A man was arrested and charged with public drunkenness at 8 a.m. Saturday after a woman dropped him off at a fire station. The drunken man was dressed as a woman, which is why the woman who picked him up said she stopped. She told officers that the man was running into traffic and waving his arms to flag down cars. She thought, because he was wearing a dress, that he was a woman in trouble. When she realized he was intoxicated and a man, she drove him to the fire station. He couldn’t tell officers his name or where he lived, so he was taken to jail. While he was waiting to be booked, he urinated on himself.

Forest Acres

tForest Drive, 3000 block: Police were called to a bank at 4 p.m. Monday after a woman tried to cash what turned out to be a stolen check. The woman presented the check with her driver’s license, but the teller knew the man who owned the account. She called him to check, and he told her he hadn’t issued a check to the woman and that as a matter of fact, he had had some checks stolen and that was one of them. The woman trying to cash the check got mad at the length of time it was taking to get her money and stormed into the bank demanding the cash. The teller explained she had spoken to the man whose name was on the account, and he did not authorize her cashing the check. The woman then demanded her check back but was told it was the property of the bank until the man came to claim it. The woman then left the bank in a huff, loudly spewing a lot of derogatory remarks at the teller and other bank employees.

Richland County

tCovenant Road, 3000 block: Police were called to a home at 7 p.m. Monday after a woman said her baby-daddy attacked her. The 24-year-old woman told officers the man ordered her to make him some chicken soup. She said that irritated her and she asked him “What’s wrong with your hands? Why can’t you make it?” That’s when the woman said the man slapped her and punched her in the face. The man claimed he was merely defending himself as the woman came at him with a mop handle and hit him with it. The woman admitted hitting the man, but she said she only hit him because he hit her first. The 23-year-old man agreed to go to his mother’s house and said he would send his mother over the next morning for his things. A computer check revealed the couple had had previous problems, and on one occasion the altercation had exacerbated into the woman vandalizing the man’s car. Both were warned to call police in the future if they felt an altercation coming on. tTwo Notch Road, 3000 block: A woman called police to a business at 5 p.m. Monday after she said a woman was assaulting another woman with a hammer in the parking lot. When officers arrived, the assaulted woman had already been taken away in an ambulance, but the witness who had called 911 told them what she saw. She said that she walked outside her place of employment and saw the two women rolling on the ground. When she saw the first woman pull out a hammer, the assaulted woman yelled for her to call police. When the attacker knew police were on the way, she fled the scene, but the witness was able to get her license number. An investigation revealed that the assailant is the current girlfriend of the victim’s exboyfriend. Although the witness got the attacking woman’s plates, she said the only name she knew her by was Precious. Charges are pending.


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