Best crimes of the Summer
— Three officers responded to a fight after a May 29 graduation ceremony at the Carolina Coliseum. The victim told police that after the ceremony, a woman came from behind and grabbed her hair, repeatedly hitting her in the head and saying “I told you I was going to find you and get up.” Bystanders pulled the woman off of the victim before police arrived. Witnesses told police that after the two were separated, the assailant bragged, laughed and said “I just beat her ass.” When police questioned the assailant about the incident, she jokingly replied that she and the victim had an “ongoing disagreement” and admitted to hitting her in the head from behind. She was then arrested for assault and transported to Alvin S. Glenn Detention Center. The victim inquired about getting a restraining order.
— Three officers were eating at Chik-fil-a late July 10 when a man got into an altercation with a security guard there. The man went outside for ten minutes before approaching the officers at their table and telling one officer he was disrespected by the security guard and would “kick his ass, take his gun and shoot him.” When the officer told the man they would not let that happen, the man cursed at him. The officer then told the man if he did not leave the restaurant or stop cursing, the officers “would give him a place to sleep tonight.” The man cursed at the officer again, saying they could not arrest him, and the officer gave him five seconds to leave. The man cursed again and was arrested for trespassing.
— An officer arrived at the scene of a DUI arrest in order to assist the responding officer around 4 a.m. July 25. The officer brought the driver back to his apartment at Riverside Apartments and returned to the scene to wait for the man’s car to be towed. The man then returned to the scene with a woman, asking if she could drive the car to his apartment. The woman did not have a driver’s license on her, so the officer said no. While the car was being towed, the man ran to the car and jumped into the passenger seat. He refused to exit the car multiple times before being arrested for disorderly conduct.
— Compiled by Amanda Coyne