Good Samaritan who stopped to help woman is robbed of $1,300 by ‘unknown male’ suspect
A delivery man from Conway who stopped to assist what appeared to be a motorist in distress was the victim of a robbery.
The incident happened Dec. 27 at the intersection of Highway 701 and Old Pee Dee Road in the Yauhannah Community.
The victim, a driver for the Frito-Lay company, was headed back to Conway at about 6:30 p.m. when he saw a female next to a disabled vehicle, so he pulled over to see if he could help. As soon as he stepped out of his truck, “An unknown male grabbed him from behind and stated to him, ‘Don’t turn around and give me the money in your pockets,’” the report indicates.
The victim complied with the order and gave the robber more than $1,300 that was in his pocket. All but $25 of the cash belonged to the snack company.
The robber and the woman, who was used as the decoy, then jumped in the car and drove away.
The victim said the tag on the car was a red dealer’s tag. The area was searched, but the car and suspects were not located.
• Georgetown County deputies spent part of the first day of 2008 dealing with a 42-year-old Myrtle Beach man who apparently tried to kill himself inside a room at the Brookwood Inn in Murrells Inlet.
Officers knocked on the room door several times, and when there was no response the manager provided a key.
The bloody man was found on the bed with a pair of scissors in his hand. He had wounds on his neck and was also holding a razor blade. He was ordered to drop the blade and scissors, and he responded by saying, “I have nothing left to live for.” After talking to the man and asking him several more times to drop the weapons, he finally complied and was taken into custody and was transported to Waccamaw Hospital for treatment and evaluation.
About an hour after the deputies dropped the man off, they were called back to the hospital because he was threatening staff and disrupting the emergency room. The man was reportedly mad because he was told he was not allowed to smoke anywhere on the hospital property. He started fighting with the staff and had to be restrained and handcuffed by security. He was then taken to jail.
• A Columbia man and his family were on Cedar Island New Year’s Eve looking for shells when they found something else — drugs. The man said he saw what he thought was a seat cushion and when he picked it up he noticed it was packed with a green leafy substance. He turned the package over to the Coast Guard, who called deputies. It is believed, the report states, the substance is marijuana.
• An 18-year-old Pawleys Island woman said she was hoping to buy some cocaine when she picked up a man on Petigru Road at about 2:30 a.m. Dec. 29. Instead, she was robbed and sexually assaulted.
The woman said when the man got in her car she asked if he knew where to get cocaine. He said “yes” and told her to drive to a house on Harrow Lane. There was no one at the house. The man threw the woman on the ground and took $300 and her cell phone.
Before he let her up, he reportedly sexually assaulted her. The man has not been found.
• Investigation continues into multiple incidents reported at area churches recently. At about 9 a.m. New Year’s Day deputies met with the building supervisor of Precious Blood of Christ Church in Pawleys Island because of what appeared to be an attempted arson. The man showed the officers an area in front of the altar where he found a box of matches, several burnt matches, a cigarette lighter and a can of WD-40. There was some minor damage to the rug caused by one of the matches. The church held a midnight mass New Year’s Eve, so whoever broke into the church did so after everyone left at about 1 a.m.
There is a security camera in the church. Tape from the camera was reviewed.
• On Dec. 29, someone climbed through a window at Mt. Olive Church on Dunbar Road in Georgetown, and once inside they tried unsuccessfully to break into a filing cabinet. The cabinet was heavily damaged but was not opened.
That happened one day after someone stole an air conditioner from Nazareth AME Church on Choppee Road. The $800 unit was behind the church, making it hard for anyone to see the thieves when it was being stolen.
• More than $16,000 of damage was done to a Ford Mustang that was parked at the Hanser House Family Restaurant in Pawleys Island Dec. 30. The owner said the tires were slashed, the passenger side fender was keyed, the tail lights were busted out and sugar was poured in the gas tank. The suspect is a Pleasant Hill area man, but no arrest has been made.
• An employee of Gullies Shell station in Pawleys Island was reportedly caught in the act of stealing from the store by a surveillance camera. The female worker, according to a manager, is seen on the tape — which was recorded New Year’s Day — tearing off lottery tickets even though no one else was in the store at the time. She is also seen walking out of the store with a carton of cigarettes in a beer box, but when she walked back inside she was empty-handed.
The deputy said he had to take the manager’s word about what he was seeing because the tape was “grainy” and it was hard to see what was actually taking place.
• A Gapway Road man reported his two English bulldogs were stolen from his residence Dec. 26. The pen where the dogs were kept was behind his house and was not locked. The dogs, the owner said, were worth more than $2,000.
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• A manager of the Moneysaver convenience store on Highmarket Street maybe should have followed the “fool me once shame on you, fool me twice shame on me” saying when it concerned an employee.
The manager told police that on Nov. 28, the worker stole $498 from the cash register, but when he discovered the theft he did not fire her because she has a child. Instead, an agreement was reached where she would pay $50 a week until all the money was reimbursed.
However, according to the manager, none of the money has been paid back, and on New Year’s Day another $500 was discovered missing from the woman’s register. This time she was fired and the manager is pressing charges for breach of trust.
• A Georgetown woman who was staying at the Harbor Inn Hotel Jan. 3 reported her pocketbook was stolen from her room. She said the purse contained $101 in cash as well as important cards and papers. The last time she saw the purse it was on the TV stand.
• Two separate reports of windows being shot were taken by police Jan. 4. Someone from Cash-O-Matic on South Fraser Street said a hole had been shot in the front window of the business. It appeared the shot was from a small caliber gun.
A woman who lives on Old Charleston Road told police a hole was shot in a window of her house, causing about $100 in damage.
That same day, diners at Ryan’s heard something strike a glass window of the business. A manager looked and saw a break in the window, but the report does not indicate if the damage was caused by a gun or something else.
