Two employees decided to show their boss who’s boss after getting fired.

Apparently the boss took these two employees to lunch to let them know they were being terminated. This little announcement didn’t go over to well.

They returned to the office, causing a scene.

One employee went straight back to his boss’ office and announced he was going to kill him, and spat in his face.

The boss called police. When they arrived they had everyone clear the building.

The boss said he did not want to press charges but did want them to collect their stuff and leave.

Officers stood by while they packed and the business owner was advised of how to proceed in civil court.

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Divorce games

A man called police to report that harassing text messages were being sent to his phone. It turned out the man is about to go through what he foresees as an ugly divorce based on what his private investigator caught his wife doing.

The first message is from a man who said they should get together soon. The second one said, “good night big boy,” and the third one said, “come on, I’m so ready.”

The officer spoke to the private investigator who gave him the name and number of the caller and his place of employment.

The husband does not know the person the calls are coming from but wanted the information documented.

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You dirty old man

A woman came home last week to find her husband home from work early. Finding this odd she walked inside to see what was going on.

Well, what was going on was that he was sitting at his computer enjoying himself a little Internet porn.

Of course the wife was livid and let him know it which resulted in a huge argument.

There wasn’t much the officer could do other then tell them to call him back should they need him again.

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He hit me

A man ran a red light right in front of an officer, which turned out to be the least of his worries.

The officer got behind the driver who was hauling tail on a flat tire and bent rim.

Whether it was the booze or the flat tire, is unknown, but the driver could not keep the car in his lane. When he finally decided to heed the blue lights, he pulled over onto the shoulder of the oncoming lane.

When the officer walked up to the car he saw the whole front in was busted up, the driver’s side window was shattered and the rear view mirror broken off. There were scratches all the way down the side of the car and the running board was cracked.

When the officer approached the driver, he said, “officer, someone hit my truck.”

The officer asked if he was okay and the man said, “no, I’m fine. He hit me.”

The officer asked where he got into an accident and he said, “on 41. I should have stopped.”

The officer explained that he was pulled over because he ran the red light and asked for his ID. About the same time another officer called over the radio  and said there had been a hit and run accident on Highway 41.

This officer brought the hit and run victim up to this location to try and identify the vehicle as being the one that hit him.

Turns out, it was the same car. Officers could clearly see that the damage to both cars was consistent with the accident described as happening on Highway 41.

The officer did not smell beer on the man’s breath but asked him if he had been drinking. He said no and when the officer noticed the styrofoam cup spilt over on the floorboard, the driver said it was a beer his friend spilled earlier.

However it turned out the drink smelled more like vodka and orange juice.

The officer did give the driver a chance to explain his side of the story before arresting him.

The driver said, “he hit me. At least I stopped when I saw the blue lights.”

Nonetheless he was arrested for Leaving the Scene of an Accident.

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High class digs

A hotel manager called police because the occupant of one particular room had not checked out and they could not reach her on the telephone.

The manager told the officer that his staff attempted to enter the room after getting no answer on the phone but the security lock was on the door and they could not get in.

The officer was finally able to get the occupant to open up.

However, she was beyond drunk.

She was so drunk she thought she paid to stay another night.

She admitted to the officer that she went out partying and didn’t come back to the  room until the wee hours of the morning. When she arrived back, she had a few swallows of wine and passed out.

At this point she knew she was too drunk to drive, but the manager confirmed she did not pay for an additional night and had to leave. She said she did not have anyone to come pick her up, so she was escorted out of the room and arrested for drunkenness in public.

The officer had to help her walk to the patrol car because she could not keep her balance.  She was taken to jail. The hotel manager was kind enough to let her keep her car in the parking lot for at least one more day but threatened to have it towed if it was not removed.

While standing in line at the detention center she asked what time it was. The officer told her 2 o’clock and she said, “is that morning or night?”

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Company’s here

The senior advocate for the police department stopped by a man’s house for a welfare check, because the man’s daughter asked that he be checked on due to his living conditions.

The man let the advocate and other officers in the house and upon walking in the front door they found boxes stacked four feet high blocking the entrance into the living room.

The hallway to the kitchen and den were the same, making it difficult to walk.

There were newspapers everywhere, covering the floor up to two feet high.

The kitchen was scattered with food, boxes, empty jars and trash. There wasn’t even an open spot on the counter for fixing or setting down food.

The fridge was stocked with food but stank to high heaven of something rotting.

The dining room had a bed and couch in it, both covered with piles of paper and folders. The downstairs bathroom couldn’t even be entered because of the papers and boxes.

The bedroom in which this man lays his head only featured a small, cleared off space for him to lie down. His bathroom was no worse for the wear. The sink was covered in dried up toothpaste and very cluttered. The tub, which under normal conditions was white, was now black with soap scum and mold.

He told officers he had been living alone for 10 years and did not see anything wrong with his living conditions. He added that he would have cleaned up a little had he known he was having visitors.

Pictures were taken and officers determined they would contact adult protective services to help the man.

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Police were looking for a particular car because the owner of it was wanted for Criminal Domestic Violence out of Florida.

Sullivan’s Island officers radioed that the suspect was headed into Mount Pleasant.

Officers finally caught up with the car, which was parked in a local hotel parking lot.

He was not a registered guest of the hotel so officers began patrolling the area on foot.

He finally walked back up to his car and officers apprehended him, first checking to ensure that he was really their suspect.

They confirmed the warrant out of Florida and found that he was also a suspect in an arson investigation that involved the murder of his mother, who issued the domestic violence warrant against him.

He was arrested for the warrants.

During that time he made several mentions of the fact that his mother’s house had burned down and he knew officers there wanted to talk to him about it.

He was advised of his Miranda rights but kept on talking.

He told the officer that he lit a fire at his mother's house and went to check in with his parole officer. He said he told his mother to watch the fire but she must have fallen asleep and died of smoke inhalation. He said he knew this because the investigation was already complete and they did not find any trauma to his mother’s body. Also, she was found face down like she had been crawling towards the door to get out of the house.

He said an Florida office e-mailed him and said he needed to talk, but that he did not save the e-mail or the officer’s phone number.

Funny enough, the man’s car was packed to the brim.

He said he had moved most of his stuff out of his mother’s house before the fire but that he did lose some things in the fire.

He then went on to talk about the CDV warrant and how he didn’t do any of those things he was wanted for. He said his sister had gotten him locked up so they could get the antique furniture out of the house. He said it wasn’t burned in the fire because his sister had taken it out while he was in jail.

His car was towed to the impound lot to be processed.

But the inventory was not completed this evening because the car was packed floorboard to ceiling. The car was also infested with insects and rotting food because he had been living out of it since he left Florida. The accommodations he was about to face on Leeds Ave. weren’t much different.

(The Police Blotter is intended to be a 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.)

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