A S.C. Highway Patrol trooper called for assistance from the Sheriff’s Office after a vehicle he was chasing crashed in Trinity Road in the Yauhannah Community at about 6 p.m. Aug. 23.

The trooper said he made traffic stop on the vehicle in Bucksport but when he walked up to the car, the driver sped away.

The chase proceeded south on Highway 701 until the driver turned on Trinity Road.

Near the intersection with Old Pee Dee Road, the driver lost control and the vehicle ended up about 30 feet from the road in some woods.

There were three people in the vehicle.

One had to be transported to MUSC because of the severity of a head injury.

Felony charges on all three people in the vehicle are expected to be filed once they recover.

Woman ticketed

and warned

While on patrol on the afternoon of Aug. 24, a deputy clocked a vehicle traveling 48 mph in a 25 mph school zone near Waccamaw Elementary.

A traffic stop was made and when the officer approached the vehicle he smelled marijuana coming from inside.

The driver — an 18 year old Myrtle Beach woman said she was giving her co-worker a ride home.

The woman admitted she had smoked marijuana in the vehicle that day.

A small amount of the drug and drug paraphernalia were found inside the car.

The woman was issued a citation for careless operation and a warning for possession of drug paraphernalia.

Checks forged

A Browns Ferry man met with deputies after receiving a call from his bank informing him his account was overdrawn.

He discovered seven of his checks had been forged and were cashed at a local convenience store.

That loss totaled more than $538.

Another check was written to a company in the amount of $171.

The man said his live-in girlfriend admitted cashing the checks.

She was an employee at the store where the checks were cashed.

Found ATM

A Georgetown man said he was driving in Killsaw Hunting Club Wednesday when he saw something he never expected to see — an ATM machine.

The heavily damaged money machine was next to the road in the woods.

Investigators were unable to immediately determine from where the machine was taken.

Fondling allegation

A Tennessee woman said while she was visiting her grandmother in Murrells Inlet her 13 year old son was molested by her 60 year old uncle.

The teen said it happened while everyone else was asleep.

The woman said she did not say anything while she was in Murrells Inlet because she did not want to upset her grandmother “and give her a heart attack.”

She waited until she returned to Tennessee to call the Sheriff’s Office.

The case is still being investigated.

Disorderly patient

When police arrived at the Georgetown Memorial Hospital at about 10:45 p.m. Aug. 21, they saw a security guard was outside with a barely-dressed female patient.

The guard said the 35 year old woman had been in the emergency room and told her nurse she wanted to leave.

The nurse told the woman she could leave after she signed a form showing she had refused treatment.

That’s when the woman cursed at the nurse and ran out of the hospital wearing only a T-shirt and underwear, the report states.

Police say the woman was apparently intoxicated and was yelling and cursing when told by them she needed to sign the form.

She then turned around, placed her arms behind her back and yelled at the officer to take her to jail.

He honored that request.

The preceding reports, compiled by Scott Harper, were collected  from local law enforcement offices.