The Gazette
A sampling of nefarious doings obtained from Berkeley County Sheriff’s Office and Goose Creek Police Department reports:
• Note to would-be robbers: Watch where you step when you try to make a fast exit.
Herbert L. Singleton, 24, of Atlanta, is in Hill Finklea Detention Center after Berkeley County Sheriff’s Deputies arrested him in connection with a Sunday morning armed robbery of the Kentucky Fried Chicken on U.S. 17A near Sangaree.
According to BCSO Public Information Officer Dan Moon, a man entered the restaurant about 8:30 a.m. Sunday, ran behind the register and snatched an undetermined amount of money from the register.
However, on his way out, his gun went off, harming no one, and he slipped and dropped most of the money.
Deputies arrested him a short time later and transported him to Hill Finklea Detention Center.
• A Goose Creek police officer on patrol pulled a vehicle for a seatbelt violation near Redbank Road. As the vehicle was pulling into a parking lot, the officer noticed the driver moving around suspiciously, reaching around inside the cabin.
When the officer approached the driver, he noticed that the driver was acting very nervously and asked him why. The driver replied that he had been out drinking with friends the night before. The officer then asked for permission to search the car even though he already had probably cause; the driver agreed.
A quick search of the center console turned up a bag of a leafy green substance that field tested positive for marijuana as well as a digital scale.
The officer then arrested the man on drug paraphernalia and possession with intent to distribute charges and transported him to Hill Finklea Detention Center.
• A Goose Creek woman reported that someone broke into her residence on Vixen Boulevard and stole a number of items of jewelry worth a total of $2,205. She said she returned home from work and found the deadbolt on the front door locked. She noted that this was odd because she and her husband never lock the deadbolt. When she went inside, she found her jewelry box open and the jewelry missing.
• School officials at a local middle school reported that they were reviewing video surveillance to try to determine who might have written graffiti in a boy’s bathroom. They called in one student who denied doing it but did give several names of other students who were in the bathroom when he was there.
One of the witnesses questioned said he didn’t know anything about graffiti, but that several of the boys were in the bathroom “cutting up” – they had grabbed another boy and were threatening to stick his head in a commode to give him a “swirly.”
Later, the instigator was charged with simple assault, intimidation, and disturbing a school.
• A woman who had been working on her laptop at McDonald’s in Goose Creek reported that when she went to use the bathroom, she was careful to take her laptop with her. She left it on the bathroom counter; when she came out of the stall the laptop was gone.
Investigators will review video footage to try to identify a suspect.
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