I need my meds

A grocery store manager had a strange encounter with a homeless woman one afternoon. She came in, grabbed a bottle of 21st Century Omega Oil Dietary gel-caps and went to the customer service desk. She stood there, opened up the bottle and started downing the pills. The manager asked her if she was going to pay the $9.99 for the bottle and she said no, because she didn't have any money. She went on to explain that she had an emergency and must take as many pills as possible.

The manager called police and when they arrived the woman was still standing there popping the gel caps and squeezing the gel into her mouth. The officers asked her if she intended to pay for the product, and she said no, but she would come back and pay the next day.

She said that someone tried to steal her reproductive eggs and she had to take the pills right away. The officer asked her how someone could steal her eggs and she replied, "someone can steal a woman's eggs if they perform a gay act from a distance."

She went on to say that she was living out of her car, but did not need medical attention for the stolen baby making eggs. The manager was kind enough to refuse to press charges but the woman was placed on Trespass Notice and told to leave. She was not allowed to take her egg replenishment concoction.

Gettin' crabby

In another grocery store a manager noticed a group of individuals enter his store separately and meet up in the seafood aisle.

He watched them for a while and eventually escorted several of them out because of the way they were behaving.

He forgot about one male and one female and thinks they stole four cans of crab meat, totaling over $70. They went to the register and bought some chips and dip using a food stamp card. This enabled police to track down the crab meat stealing thieves. No word on how the interview went.

Hit and run

A man went to visit his friend one evening when a woman came barreling around the corner and smashed into his car.

She took off, however, so he could not determine who had done this. Luckily a next door neighbor witnessed the entire event and was able to get a tag number. There were also several pieces of debris left behind from this woman's car. Police tracked down the home of the suspect and knocked on the door. She would not answer and the house was dark. By looking through the window of the garage however, they could clearly see the same car that the neighbor described. In addition, the garage door was damaged and the front yard had tire tracks in it.

The brick wall to the house was also damaged, from what appeared was a car racing inside the garage to possibly hide. But since no one came to the door the officers left.

The next day officers went back to the woman's house. She said she wrecked the car into her garage the afternoon before and it was not drivable.

The officers told her that she was suspected in a hit and run. She denied that her car was involved and denied she was involved.

She said she could not have been involved because of the accident with her garage and the fact that she had the car towed to the repair shop that morning.

The officer went to the repair shop and sure enough her car was damaged and a large red streak of paint went down the side of it. This was the same color paint as the victim's.

The debris found at the scene matched her car.

The officers did not buy her lie and charged her with Leaving the Scene of a Collision.

Card eating ATM

A man became irate in a local store one day when he went to use the ATM and the machine ate his card.

He was so mad in fact he told an employee that he was going to get a gun, come back and shoot him.

The store manager called police who were quickly able to identify him. He left a book in the store and it happened to have his name and phone number written inside it. The officer called the number and the suspect answered. He admitted that there was a disturbance at the store.

In the meantime the employee told officers that the man approached her and asked her where the ATM was.

She pointed it out and a short time later he came back up to her and told her he was angry because it ate his card. She said there was nothing she could do to get the card back and he would have to call the bank in the morning. He said he did not want to wait until the bank opened in the morning; he wanted the card back right now.

Funny thing is, his card would do him no good because the employee saw the receipt he was holding and it said he had a zero balance. He got even angrier and said he was bi-polar and was going to his car to get a gun and shoot her in the forehead.

When police interviewed the man he said that he came to buy some video controllers and when he got to the register he realized he needed to get some more money out of the machine to complete the transaction.

When the ATM didn't work he told an employee about it and he said that the woman told him he needed to speak with a psychologist.

He told police that he cursed her and then left. He denied threatening her. He was very vague about the entire incident and finally admitted that he put the wrong card in the ATM.

The store manager did not press charges but the man was placed on Trespass Notice.

One way

An Awendaw man turned into a local shopping complex and didn't quite make the turn.

He drove into an oncoming car and then slammed into a concrete median. Then, instead of getting out to make sure the occupants in the other vehicle were okay, he drove the wrong way down a one way street. Police caught up with him and found him to be a little tipsy.

He swore up and down he did not have anything to drink but the officer was curious as to why his pants and shirt were covered with red wine and why it was spilled all over his floor mats and in the cup holder. He said it was sweet tea.

He then refused to do any field sobriety tests, because he was determined to convince the officer he was not drunk.

He was arrested for Leaving the Scene and DUI and taken in to the station.

He would not do any field sobriety tests but he did agree to blow. He only registered a .01 percent.

But the officer was convinced he was inebriated.

So he took the man to the hospital for a urine sample because he believed the man to be drunk on not only alcohol but prescription pills.

It should be noted on the way there the suspect told the officer that marijuana may show up in the urine sample due to being exposed to second hand smoke.

(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. Generally, cases have not been adjudicated at the time of publication.)