A loving family

A family reunion turned ugly last month when a man and his girlfriend got into a fight because his other baby's momma showed up. The new girlfriend got upset because the other baby's momma was there and decided that the best revenge would be to destroy her boyfriend's mother's car.

Then she decided to grab a bottle of bleach and pour it onto her boyfriend's clothes. He grabbed the bottle of bleach from his girlfriend and poured it down the toilet, then started to walk out of the house.

She followed him outside, yelling and screaming like a maniac, and that is when he decided just to call the police.

Police spoke to the woman, who said her boyfriend accidently hit her in the forehead with the front door. She changed the entire story and said that they got into an argument and he wanted to leave.

She said she got upset about him leaving and followed him outside. They argued some more and that is when she told him to take his behind to his mother's house and went inside and locked the door.

The police were able to clam them both down and the man's mother said she would not press charges for the damage this new girlfriend did to her car. The officers went on their way to handle the numerous other domestic calls they received that evening.

When the cat's away

A concerned neighbor called the police when she saw two strange people walking up to a house whose owners, she knew, were out of town. The house was not very well lit and the officers approached cautiously. They walked around the house, which backed up to some woods, making it very hard to see anything. They checked an outside door and found it to be unlocked. This concerned the officers so they rang the doorbell and, of course, got no answer. There were no lights on inside the house, and fearing that an intruder may have entered the house, they announced themselves as police officers and yelled inside to see if anyone was home. They walked inside and as they went into the kitchen they found a bunch of teenage kids hiding behind the counter. The officers asked them who lived in the house and no one answered. Then one finally admitted that the kid who lived there was also hiding. What they forgot to hide was all the beer they had strewn about, as well as the unopened cases in the fridge.

The officers gathered up all the kids and sent them to the den, where one by one they took down names and information and called their parents.

Then they called the parent of the kid who lived there. In all, only one kid had not been drinking and was allowed to go on home. Nine of them went home with their parents and an underage possession ticket. The kid who lived there had to watch as the officer poured out all the beer, which the kids claimed a stranger had bought for them at a local gas station.

Come and get it

A construction worker lost his two way cell phone/radio at the job site one day and decided to call the phone to see if anyone might have picked it up.

He breathed a sigh of relief when someone answered it and said they had the phone. But he was shocked to learn that it was a punk teenage kid who had the phone and was demanding money for its return.

He said his name was Shane and that he lived in Park West.

He continued to demand a reward, but being the dumb kid that he was, didn't realize that he wasn't going to get a dime. The construction worker had the phone disconnected and reported it as stolen. He has every intention of pressing charges, should an officer track down Mr. Shane.

In the Atlantic

A boat full of drunks had a little spat with the dock hands at a Shem Creek bar last week, and the boat captain got sassy with the police officer and didn't seem to care what the consequences would be.

The officer already happened to be at the bar when a bouncer told him a fight had broken out.

He went to the dock to see what was going on and came across the boatful of drunks yelling and screaming. One threw a full beer at the dock hand, who happened to be standing on a dock full of customers.

They yelled and screamed some more and then tossed another beer at a bouncer on the dock. The officer shined his flashlight on the boat and they screamed "come get us boys."

He told the boat captain to come back to the dock and he trimmed up his outboards and gunned the engine down Shem Creek.

The passengers on the boat were cheering and yelling (something you can't do on Sullivan's Island) and the boat drove out of sight.

The bouncers were able to get the hull number and the officer called DNR and got the captain's name and phone number. He also got the man's address.

He called the number and spoke to the captain's father, who said his son did not own a boat and that his own boat was docked in Awendaw.

They hung up and dad must have called his son, who called the police officer just a few minutes later.

This 28-year-old punk would not tell the officer where he was.

He said, "I could be anywhere." But he did admit to being at the bar with friends and spending $60 on just two beers.

He told the officer the boat was his and he and his friends were being harassed at the bar. He said the bouncer threw a salt shaker at them as they drove away.

"I'm not sure what the police officer on the dock told you but they were all harassing us," said the captain.

He then refused to give the officer his correct address and said: "I'm on the water in the Atlantic. Are you going to have the Navy SEALS come out of the water and get me? Cause I am not drunk and I haven't done %$#@."

He was informed that he was on Trespass Notice from the bar and he said, "I ain't going back there."

The officer said he would be in contact with him again and then asked him for his correct address one more time, and the punk said, "figure it out" and hung up.

Sick of him

You know things are bad when you're sick of your son and want him our of your house.

They're even worse when you have to evict him. But it happens, and one mom was dead serious about doing it.

She even called police to get the ball rolling.

She said her son came to the house asking for money to buy crack.

She said that he lived with her and woke her at all hours of the night and she had to work in the morning. She said she was sick of him and wanted him out.

The officer explained the eviction process to her and said if her son came home to call the police so they could serve him with an official Trespass Notice.

She said her son did not have a telephone and she had no alternative means of reaching him but would call if he returned.

Total winner

A girl called police because she got into a fight with her boyfriend. She said she had told him that she wanted to slow the relationship down and he had gotten mad and proceeded to get drunk. She said they argued and then he locked himself in the bedroom, so she slept downstairs. The next morning she went into her bedroom and it smelled like urine and her carpets were wet.

He wrote profane words on her bathroom mirror in paint and poured paint into her bathtub. She cleaned up the mess and called police.

She said she was not afraid of the man but she did not want him to return to her house, and she wanted her key back. She said he had been texting her with messages about contacting her ex-husband and getting her in trouble and she was just over him.

She agreed to pack his things up and leave them in the garage for him--including his dog.

(The Police Blotter is intended to be an informative and/or humorous column written from police reports obtained from the Mount Pleasant Police Department. The stories come from the initial incident reports and, occasionally, supplemental reports. Generally, cases have not been adjudicated at the time of publication.)