DUI: 6
Speeding/Failure to Stop: 2
Simple Possession of marijuana: 5
Simple Possession of methamphetamine: 4
Shoplifting: 18
Burglary: 22
Auto breaking: 16
Larceny: 27
Grand larceny: 23
Malicious injury to real property: 4
Begging: 3
Simple Assault: 14
Assault and Battery/ Fighting: 7
Fraud: 4
Sex/Crim sexual misconduct and kidnapping: 2
Drunkenness: 8
Threatening Public Official: 2
Public Disorderly conduct: 13
Possession of counterfeit money: 4
Illegal parking: 3
These briefs do not include every incident from the last week and suspects are presumed innocent until proven guilty. Information could change as investigations continue.
- An officer was on patrol at approximately 12 a.m. on Sept. 16 when he saw an African American man sitting on the road near 1100 House Street. When the officer began to question the man, the man explained that he had been kidnapped two days ago on Two Notch Road. The man told the officer that while driving on Two Notch Road he saw a drifter on the side of the road asking for a ride. The man allowed the stranger into his car, where the passenger pulled a gun on the man and forced him to drive to an unknown location on House Street. According to the man, his kidnapper also sodomized him several times and forced him to smoke heroin at one point. The man said that there were six or seven different African-American men at the house where he was kept during his captivity. The kidnapper was also called “Turk” according to the man. An EMS crew took the man to Richland Memorial Hospital for further treatment.
- Around midnight on the morning of Sept. 19 an officer was conducting a routine patrol through Five Points when he noticed an African American man yelling at pedestrians and pulling up flowers outside the Newman’s Five Points Exxon gas station at 727 Harden Street. The officer told the man to stop and to leave the area or go home, and the man complied. A few minutes later the officer returned and the same man was still at the gas station pulling up flowers and shouting obscenities. After attempting to calm the subject down verbally, the man responded to the officer, “F--- you, Corporal!” and attempted to leave. The officer followed the man to the Five Points fountain where he saw the subject was heavily intoxicated and subsequently arrested him for Public/Disorderly conduct.
- After being dispatched following reports of counterfeit money being used by a man to buy food at Cook Out, an officer arrived at Cook Out at approximately 9:45 p.m. on Sept. 18. The man in question had attempted to buy a meal at the restaurant using what the Cook Out manager claimed to be a counterfeit $20 bill. The subject, a middle-aged African American man, said that a stranger gave him the bill after he washed their car in the parking lot of Cook Out. The subject did not know that the bill was fake until he attempted to buy food. After asking the Columbia Police Department Headquarters for record on the man, it turned out he had three active bench warrants against him. The man was arrested for having counterfeit money and served the three warrants. The counterfeit bill was tagged and put in CPD’s possession.