Police Blotters

LEXINGTON COUNTY SHERIFF

Forest Grove Circle, 400 block: Police were called to a home at 9:30 a.m. Thursday after the resident said a 13-year-old student was harassing him by phone. The man told deputies that the student attended the school he worked at and he had called the man numerous times. When deputies confronted the student, it was apparent from his knowledge of what was said and the times of the calls that if the student didn’t make the calls, he was in the room when they were made and knew who did make them.

RICHLANDCOUNTY SHERIFF

Two Notch Road, 7000 block: Two women were arrested at 8:30 p.m. Friday after they were caught in a plot to steal from a department store. One of the women entered the department store and shopped for a while, finally selecting numerous items. When she went to a register to check out, the clerk put almost $1,000 worth of merchandise into shopping bags and charged the woman $4, a report said. In her statement to police, the 47-year-old woman admitted that she knew the 62-year-old clerk and that they had planned the caper beforehand. Both women were charged with shoplifting.

WEST COLUMBIAPOLICE

Augusta Road, 2400 block: Two women were arrested at 7:30 p.m. Monday after they were spotted shoplifting in a discount department store. Store employees told police that the women brought in bags bearing the store’s logo and started filling them with items from the shelves. When they left without paying, an employee stopped them and found almost $200 worth of merchandise in their bags. When police arrived both women gave fake names and said they had no identification on them. One began trying to get away from the officer as he was cuffing her, a report said. Officers found cocaine and drug paraphernalia on the woman who resisted arrest, so she was charged with possession.

Dale Street, 300 block: Police were called to a home at 8 a.m. Monday after the resident returned to find that someone had broken in. The victim said at first nothing seemed amiss, but then he noticed a rear kitchen window was open and a table had been moved. Someone had taken a safe he kept in his bedroom closet. He said the safe contained jewelry and paperwork along with his blank checks. His Social Security card and other forms of identification were in the safe.

Central Avenue, 800 block: A woman was arrested at 11 p.m. Monday after police saw her and a man in a heated argument in the middle of the street. When officers separated them, they saw that the woman was wielding a steak knife. The 34-year-old woman was charged with possession of an unlawful weapon.

Augusta Road, 2400 block: A suspected shoplifter was arrested at 1:30 a.m. Tuesday after a brief foot chase by police. When the man left a store, he saw the officers, turned and walked away, then began to run. They shocked him with a Taser, but he kept running. He fell down after being shocked a second time and was captured. He was charged with resisting arrest and failure to stop on police command.

— Julia Rogers Hook