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Crime in the Creek 1/6

Published Wednesday, January 06, 2010 9:27 AM

By Jim Tatum
The Gazette

A sampling of nefarious doings obtained from Goose Creek Police Department and Berkeley County Sheriff’s Office reports:

• Goose Creek Police Officers responding to a call at Shannon Court Apartments found a burglary in progress.

The first officer arriving at the scene heard sounds from the apartment and saw that the lights were on and called for backup. As two more officers arrived, a black male subject suddenly ran out the front door. The officer challenged him, stopped him, cuffed him, and ordered him to sit. The officer also reported smelling alcohol on the subject.

The officers then went into the apartment and found it to be in disarray, to the point of being ransacked. They found broken glass outside a window and glass dust on the subject’s person.

The subject told officers he was the former boyfriend of the woman who lived in the apartment, that they had a child together, and that he was there to watch the child. He then changed his story to say family members brought him there. He also claimed not to know how the window became broken.

The officers ultimately arrested him for burglary and transported him to Hill Finklea Detention Center.

• A woman who resides at Red Cedar Drive reported that she came home and found a number of items, including jewelry and fishing supplies worth about $2,500 missing from her home. She said she believes that an acquaintance of her daughter’s may have stolen the items because he and the daughter’s boyfriend are the only people who have been in the house in recent weeks. She further stated she found the fishing rod at a local pawnshop.

The officer then checked the pawnshop and found that the victim’s daughter‘s boyfriend sold the fishing rod to the pawnshop.

Officers want to speak to both subjects and the case is under investigation.

• Two officers successfully resolved a home invasion of sorts – removing a recalcitrant squirrel from a fireplace in a residence located on Prentice Circle in Goose Creek. One officer had to return to the police department to retrieve a catch stick. They tried to get the squirrel with the catch stick to no avail; one of the officers finally trapped it using an ASP baton.

The squirrel resisted, biting the officer in the finger, but was transported to the ASPCA.

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