http://www.gtowntimes.com/ en-us http://www.gtowntimes.com/story/robbers-plead Two Myrtle Beach residents who held up Georgetown Kraft Credit Union and other  banks this year pled guilty in federal court to bank robbery, and to robbing a bank while out on bond, according to United States Attorney W. Walter Wilkins.Maurice Russell Small, age 23, and Elysia Nicole Nolan, age 20, robbed GKCU on May 21. The next day they robbed Citizen’s Bank in Florence and on June 2 it was Anderson Brother’s Bank in Loris. They were arrested on June 2 and released on bond. They then robbed the Branch Banking and Trust in Murrells Inlet on June 26 and were re-arrested, Wilkins said.Wilkins stated the maximum penalty Small and Nolan can receive is a fine of $250,000 and imprisonment for 20 years, plus an additional 10 years for ... 12/2/2008 http://www.gtowntimes.com/story/robbers-plead http://www.gtowntimes.com/story/Crime-11-28-08 The Department of Social Services is working with the Sheriff’s Office on an investigation into possible child abuse. A DSS worker said a 3-year-old boy now in foster care said he was abused by his father. The toddler says when he cried or would not go to sleep his dad would beat him on his back, butt and back of the legs. If he would hide under his covers, his dad would drag him out by the throat and beat him, the report states. Sheriff’s Office• A 25-year-old Pawleys Island man suffered minor injuries after an altercation with his stepfather concerning alcohol. The man, who met deputies at the Waccamaw Community Hospital Nov. 22 said the argument turned physical and the two started pushing each other. The older man hit his stepson on ... 11/27/2008 http://www.gtowntimes.com/story/Crime-11-28-08 http://www.gtowntimes.com/story/Pol-Blotter-_-Grandmother-accused-of-beating-grandson-w-fireplc * A Georgetown County woman is accused of beating her 14-year-old grandson with a fireplace tool. The teen told a deputy his grandmother told him to put wood in the fireplace Nov. 19 and when she came out of her room and saw the door on the fireplace was open, she got very upset. She allegedly started choking him and then used the fireplace ash shovel to hit him on the face and body. He was also reportedly hit on the legs and arms with the fireplace poker. When he grabbed the poker, his grandmother allegedly started choking him until he got weak and let it go. The teen, the deputy reported, had a lump and gash on his head. No charges have been filed but the teen was placed in the care of another relative. ... 11/25/2008 http://www.gtowntimes.com/story/Pol-Blotter-_-Grandmother-accused-of-beating-grandson-w-fireplc http://www.gtowntimes.com/story/GMS-studnet-charged-with-threatenng-Obama A Georgetown Middle School student is in trouble after allegedly making threatening remarks towards President-elect Barack Obama.According to school officials, the incident happened Tuesday as students were assigned to write letters to the soon-to-be president.During the class, one male student - whose age is not on the report - said “if (Obama) comes to Georgetown, I will be there to shoot him,” the incident report states.“The subject hen made shooting gestures with his hands,” according to the report.This caused an uproar in the class. The teacher tried to settle the class while removing the student from the room.The student allegedly told the teacher, “I don’t want to write about commitments, I want to write about him (getting) assassina ... 11/21/2008 http://www.gtowntimes.com/story/GMS-studnet-charged-with-threatenng-Obama http://www.gtowntimes.com/story/Police-Blotter-_-Pawleys-man-stabbed-by-unknown-suspect Georgetown County Deputies responded to Figtree Lane in Pawleys Island Nov. 14 because of a stabbing. A 31-year-old man said he was stabbed in the chest by an unknown person. The man said when he arrived home, he opened his front door and the stranger who was waiting inside stabbed him. He told deputies he was unsure if the attacker was male or female. The man first said he thought his girlfriend may have stabbed him because they had been arguing but later said he was mistaken. Deputies talked to the man's girlfriend. She said when they woke up her boyfriend told her he thought there was someone in the house so he told her to leave. The woman's story "changed several times," the report states. Blood was found on the flo ... 11/20/2008 http://www.gtowntimes.com/story/Police-Blotter-_-Pawleys-man-stabbed-by-unknown-suspect http://www.gtowntimes.com/story/Police-Blot_-Tupacz-robbed-at-gunpoint_-police-looking-for-susp A liquor store robber who struck last week was still on the loose Tuesday. The owner of Tupacz Liquors and Fine Wine on Church Street told police a man armed with a pistol walked in the store at about 5:50 p.m. Thursday and pointed the gun at a woman and demanded money. The owner was in an office but when he heard the disturbance, he walked up front where he was confronted by the gunman. He ordered the owner to get on the floor and told the woman to empty the cash register. He searched the front desk for more money. He took the owner's wallet. As he was leaving he warned he would come back and kill them if he heard the police responding. A couple of minutes later a customer walked in and saw the owner and other workers on t ... 11/18/2008 http://www.gtowntimes.com/story/Police-Blot_-Tupacz-robbed-at-gunpoint_-police-looking-for-susp http://www.gtowntimes.com/story/crime-11-14 Five men — one wore panty hose over his head — held up the Super Chick on West Main Street in Andrews, locking one worker on an office and forcing another in a freezer.Police were sent to the store at about 11 p.m. Monday and met with the employees who were unhurt. A male workers said he was outside locking an ice box when he was approached by the five men. One of them was holding what appeared to be an assault rifle, according to an incident report.They held the gun to the employee’s head and forced him inside the building and then into an office and barricaded the door. One of the men then approached a female cashier and demanded money but because the store was about to close for the night, she had already dropped the money in the safe an ... 11/14/2008 http://www.gtowntimes.com/story/crime-11-14 http://www.gtowntimes.com/story/Crime-11-12-08 Investigators met with a 10-year-old girl and her school principal Nov. 6 and are now checking out allegations of possible sexual abuse.The girl’s teacher said she noticed something seemed to be wrong with the girl, who speaks little English. The teacher asked her what was wrong and because of the language barrier, she let the girl write her answers.The girl wrote the words “touched me”, “hit me”, “on summer” and then the name of an 18-year-old male.Police were told it’s believed the girl was victimized by the 18-year-old during the summer break. So far, no charges have been filed.Georgetown Police• A Georgetown man in the process of constructing a house on Cannon Street met with police Nov. 6 to report a possible spy.The man told police a ... 11/12/2008 http://www.gtowntimes.com/story/Crime-11-12-08 http://www.gtowntimes.com/story/school-board-candidate-arrested Two days after losing his race for a seat on the Georgetown County School Board, one of the candidates was arrested for allegedly stealing money from his workplace.Johnell Conyers, 43, was arrested by the  Georgetown Police Department Thursday, charged with breach of trust with fraudulent intent after an internal investigation was conducted by Advance Auto Parts.According to an incident report, police met with a regional representative from the store who said their investigation indicated Conyers - the Georgetown store manager - “had made 83 separate payouts over the last 90 days  and kept all the money which totaled $6,257.”The report also states Conyers “admitted to making 78 of the transactions.”Conyers has been released from j ... 11/10/2008 http://www.gtowntimes.com/story/school-board-candidate-arrested http://www.gtowntimes.com/story/Police-Blotter-_-Police-searching-for-teen-who-robbed-Scotchman Georgetown police are continuing to search for a teenager who robbed the Scotchman convenience store at 701 Black River Road Sunday evening. According to a female clerk who was on duty, the suspect -- described as being 16-18 years old -- walked in the store at about 8 p.m. Sunday and asked about the price of a cigar. He then pulled out a silver handgun and said "give me all the money." The woman opened the cash drawer. The teen told her to make sure she lifted the money tray and gave him any cash that may have been stored underneath. The robber then reached over and grabbed the money and stuffed it in his pocket and fled out the door. He left the scene on a bicycle with about $375 that he took from the store. ... 11/4/2008 http://www.gtowntimes.com/story/Police-Blotter-_-Police-searching-for-teen-who-robbed-Scotchman http://www.gtowntimes.com/story/Police-Blotter_-Woman-gets-jail-time-for-mistreating-child A 33-year-old Georgetown woman was sentenced to jail time during a trial last week after being found guilty of unlawful conduct toward a child. Helenia Dawn Jacobs was arrested in February after she left her 12-year-old daughter at home to take care of her siblings, ages 8, 5 and 1. During that time, the youngest child was left unattended and turned on the bathtub, causing the bathroom to flood, according to Assistant Solicitor Dorie Biagianti, who prosecuted the case. The water caused electricity problems in that part of the house. When Jacobs returned home, she started to "yell and curse" at the 12-year-old for not watching her sibling, Biagianti said. She then picked up a kid's size pool stick and used it to beat the 12- ... 10/30/2008 http://www.gtowntimes.com/story/Police-Blotter_-Woman-gets-jail-time-for-mistreating-child http://www.gtowntimes.com/story/CBMS-teacher-charged- A Carvers Bay Middle School teacher was charged with assault and battery because of an incident last week inside her classroom. According to the Georgetown County Sheriff’s Office, the incident occurred Oct. 23 when a 14-year-old male student would not stop talking after he was asked to do so by his teacher Rhonda Britton. The teen said Britton “got angry and threw a candle at him and hit him in his face,” the report states. The deputy who responded to the classroom said he observed some swelling on the face of the teen. Another student provided a written statement saying he saw Britton throw the candle and strike the teen. Assistant Sheriff Carter Weaver said warrants were obtained and were served on Britton Sunday. She was released ... 10/29/2008 http://www.gtowntimes.com/story/CBMS-teacher-charged- http://www.gtowntimes.com/story/Police-Blotter_-No-suspects-in-Tallowtree-burglary A woman from Tallowtree Drive in Andrews said when she returned home from work Oct. 15, she saw a window was broken. When she went inside she saw the house was in shambles with all the drawers on her cabinets pulled out. The intruder went through every room in the house rummaging through every drawer and closet. She said she is missing about $4,500 worth of jewelry, $80 in coins, a clothes iron, and a gun safe which contained six shotguns and three rifles. The thieves also took $40 worth of meat, an underwater camera, a drill and several fishing poles from the garage. There are no suspects. Sheriff's Office * Deputies were sent to Kensington because of a suspicious man on a bicycle Oct. 18. A resident s ... 10/28/2008 http://www.gtowntimes.com/story/Police-Blotter_-No-suspects-in-Tallowtree-burglary http://www.gtowntimes.com/story/Police-Bltr_-Husb-arrested-for-violating-ordr-aftr-helping-wif A man who thought he was doing a good deed for his family was arrested Oct. 20. The man, who lives in Beaufort, told Andrews police he made the trip to the home on Martin Luther King Drive in Andrews after his estranged wife called him and said her car was not working. After the man fixed the car, he went inside the house to clean up but then could not find his wallet. At some point, police were called to the house and the woman reported she had a restraining order against her husband. The man told police he knew about the order but he wanted to help out his wife and children. The 47-year-old man was taken to jail, charged with order of protection violation. Andrews Police * Police arrested a 52-year-old Jone ... 10/26/2008 http://www.gtowntimes.com/story/Police-Bltr_-Husb-arrested-for-violating-ordr-aftr-helping-wif http://www.gtowntimes.com/story/Police-Blotter_-Pawleys-daycare-worker-investigated-for-possibl The Georgetown County Sheriff's Office is investigating a report of possible child abuse by a daycare worker in Pawleys Island. The mother of a 1-year-old boy said the daycare worker brought her son to her workplace Oct. 15. She was mad and said she no longer wanted to care for the baby. The woman said she took her baby to a different daycare and talked to an employee there who used to work with the woman from Pawleys Island. She said she witnessed the Pawleys Island daycare worker squeezing a baby's face. On another occasion she saw a book shelf fall on a child and the woman did not report the incident. The mother of the 1-year-old is asking for investigators to check to see if children are being abused at the daycare in Paw ... 10/23/2008 http://www.gtowntimes.com/story/Police-Blotter_-Pawleys-daycare-worker-investigated-for-possibl