Lost it

A soon-to-be ex-husband lost his cool when he found out his wife was divorcing him. But this should have come as no surprise to him, since she has an order of protective measures against him prohibiting him from coming to their home. However, when the divorce paperwork was served to him, he charged over to her house and started banging on the door and threatening to kidnap the children.

In addition to the man losing his temper at her house, he released his fury into her voicemail a total of 10 times in less than an hour. Police went to his home to arrest him but he would not come to the door. They did not have probable cause to enter his house, so they simply left to draw up a warrant for violating the order of protection. It was also learned the man was wanted in Richland County for fraudulent checks.

The joys of marriage

A couple married for only one year is beginning to feel the strains of marriage and has been arguing a lot lately. But the straw that broke the camel's back was when the husband decided to use the corner of the bedroom as a toilet.

The husband woke up in the middle of the night and started to pee in the corner. His wife yelled at him to stop and grabbed him to wake him up. It must have really startled her husband because he stopped mid-stream and started shoving his wife around the room. At some point she was able to get away and call police, but when they got there she did not want to press charges and did not want him to get in trouble. She said she just wanted to go to sleep.

There wasn't much the police could do, so they left. So did the husband. He decided it would be better if he stayed at his brother's for the night.

Oil spill

Someone who is really mad at BP decided to take it out on a local gas station owner. This vandal went to a local BP gas station one night and damaged all eight gas pumps to the point of inoperability. The vandal painted the screens with spray paint and put super glue in the credit card slots. Then the vandal put bumper stickers on the pumps that said "Don't buy from BP."

Extra police patrols have been ordered for all BP gas stations.

The Clampits

Class is sometimes hard to come by, and this next couple proves just that.

The wife told police that she was on the couch watching television when her husband came down and started arguing with her. She said she was trying to sleep but he kept demanding her car keys so he could go to the store and buy some smokes. She kept telling him to leave her alone and he got mad, so he grabbed her purse and dumped everything out. Then he poured a beer on her head. Because she was so unfazed by this outburst, he grabbed her by the arm and leg and pulled her off the couch and then spit on her.

Of course his side of the story is entirely different. In fact, he said she was the one doing the arguing and hitting and kicking and that actually she said things to him that he did not even wish to repeat. He said he told her not to talk to him like that and when she kept saying it they got in each other's face and yelled and that is how she got spit on. The two promised not to bother each other for the rest of the night.

A nickel's worth

An 18-year-old man pulled his car right out onto the highway in front of a police car, causing the officer to have to slam on brakes to avoid hitting him. The officer followed along behind the driver to see if he might be impaired, but did not notice anything. A short distance down the road, he pulled the driver over for failure to yield the right of way. As he spoke to the driver, he again did not notice any impairment. He asked the driver if he knew why he had been pulled over and the man said, "yeah, I pulled out in front of you. I thought I had enough room but I guess I didn't."

Everything was going fine and he was about to receive a warning when the officer noticed a toker's box, used to store pot pipes and weed. The officer asked where his dope was, and he fessed up and told him where he hid his nickels worth of stash, but not before he lied to the officer and tried to convince the cop that the box was a puzzle.

Shots fired

A Snee Farm man called police to report gun shots being fired behind his home. Police went to a condo development behind his home to investigate. An officer came across a man and a woman sitting on the front steps of a condo unit. At a closer glance, the officer also saw two men walking around butt-naked in the garage.

The officer gathered everyone up and made the two get dressed and then questioned them about the gun shots. All of them said they didn't hear a thing, which might be because they were drunk out of their minds. But they were all very cooperative and one (an off-duty police officer) even produced his gun so officers could see that it had not been fired.

Wine cooler

An Isle of Palms patrol officer stopped a weaving car on the Connector. The officer immediately noticed a strong odor of alcohol coming from the car and an open wine cooler. A few field sobriety tests indicated impairment. The driver was taken into custody, but when the officer went back to the car he saw the open wine cooler was missing. It took no time to locate the wine cooler and the passenger was also taken into custody for hindering. The driver was transported to the Detention Center where a Datamaster Test was to be administered but he refused to provide a sample.

He was promptly charged with DUI and Open Container.

Speed demon

After 3 a.m. a patrol officer clocked a guy going over 80 miles per hour on the Connector. He pulled the guy over and saw that he had a suspended driver's license for failure to pay two traffic tickets. He was taken into custody, where he was found to have a large amount of marijuana on him. He was charged with DUS, Speeding, Open Container, and Simple Possession of Marijuana.

'Just Tylenol'

A man on Ocean Boulevard asked police for directions to a specific residence. But when the man walked right past the residence he had inquired about, the officer became suspicious, as he looked intently into each driveway of the houses he passed. When the officer asked the man for identification, the man became anxious, jittery and fumbled his words. The man's license has been suspended for recent narcotic violations so he was detained and found to have Schedule II Narcotics, identifed as Dilaudid. The man, however, told the officer that the pills were Tylenol, then Lortabs. He was charged with False Information to the Police, and through Charleston County Sheriffi's Office Narcotic Unit he was charged with Possession of Schedule II Narcotics.

Fist pump

Isle of Palms officers went to the business district, where a fight had been reported. Management of the establishment had detained a suspect and turned him over to the first officer when he arrived. A man lay unconscious on the floor. Fire Department personnel had tried to perform first aid until EMS arrived to treat and transport the man to the hospital. Witnesses claimed that the man who was being detained walked up to the other man's table with a closed fist and struck him, rendering him unconscious. He was arrested and charged with Assault & Battery in the third degree.

Holla

An officer responded to a business at the City Marina where a man on the back deck was yelling loud profanities to patrons and to a DNR officer conducting business at a nearby dock. The man was intoxicated and having trouble maintaining his balance. The man was upset that the DNR officer had arrested his friend, who was operating the boat under the influence of alcohol. The man was taken into custody and charged with Disorderly Conduct. He also was wanted in Georgia by the Clarke County Sheriff's Office, for a similar charge.

Fleeing for a reason

A foot patrol officer noticed a group of underage kids drinking brewskis near the Grand Pavilion in Wild Dunes. The officer saw one male throw down a can of beer and open a second. The officer approached the group and explained that one of the guys resembled a male subject captured on videotape for stealing liquor from the Grand Pavilion. The male subject threw down his beer and ran for the beach. The officer charged the two remaining guys with Underage Possession of Alcohol and allowed them to leave the area. A little while later, a vehicle was stopped on 57th Avenue with the guy who had run from the officer on the beach. The driver was identified and found to have a half-empty bottle of rum in the vehicle. He was charged with Minor in Possession of Beer, Illegal Transportation of Liquor, Possession of Altered ID, Hindering/Resisting Arrest, Petit Larceny, Littering, and Unlawful Destruction of Sea Oats.

(The Police Blotter is intended to be an informative and/or humorous column written from police reports obtained from the Mount Pleasant Police Department. Many of the stories come from the initial incident reports and, occasionally, supplemental reports.)