The people involved in these events are innocent until proven guilty. The accounts come directly from police reports.

Crimes by Zip Code

29200
A 45-year-old homeless man is complaining this week that another homeless man, 51, bashed him in the head several times with a tire iron and then used it to choke him out. The victim also told police that the man used the tire iron to wreck his “tent,” which is the structures some area homeless construct in urban areas. Cops say no signs of a struggle, nor visible injuries could be found – also the hobo was drunk – so they took him to the hospital to get checked out; 800 block Huger Street.

29201
A man says he was minding his own business at the bus station waiting for a ride to Tennessee where he had a $27-an-hour job waiting for him. That was, anyway, until a copper picked him out of the crowd and arrested him for public drunkenness. The kicker? The guy says he doesn’t even drink, but is on medication that makes him dizzy. “Man, they’ll arrest you for anything,” he said, receiving his belongings from the property room in the cop shop. “Imagine…be on vacation and leave on probation;” 1 block Justice Square.

29201
Say you’re on the run from the law and have a warrant out for your arrest. You’d think the last thing you’d be doing would be standing at a busy intersection waving a sign begging for money. But that’s what a the 46-year-old man with an outstanding warrant in Cayce was doing before cops shook him down and sent him back over the river; 400 block Hampton Street.

29201
Cops on patrol see a car stalking through an apartment complex parking lot with its lights off and decide to check it out. As soon as they do, a passenger bails out with a semi-automatic handgun and takes off running and the driver bails shortly after. Cops say they cut off the chase because the area was “saturated” with children but inside the abandoned car they find an SKS assault rifle, fully loaded with a round in the chamber. Sleep tight, Columbia; 100 block Lorrick Circle.

29203
It’s just another night in Redneck Park when a 45-year-old husband comes home drunk and throws his dinner all over the floor. “We will make News 19, 57 and 10 tonight because I will kill your ass,” he says to his wife while cornering her in the kitchen and threatening to punch her in the eyes and mouth so she’ll “have some teeth missing.” When the cops show up, they see the man also has broken the house phone by throwing it on the floor. He is arrested for drunkenness; 400 block Bailey Street.

29205
Carrying a pocketknife in Columbia is illegal, but it becomes an even larger breach of the law when, while being arrested for public drunkenness, you make a lunge for that knife while resisting arrest. Such was the plight of this 19-year-old knifesman who was taken to the ground by officers so hard that he busted his forehead on the concrete. Lesson learned: don’t try to stab a cop, it always ends badly; 1000 block Harden Street.

29205
Don’t have the $16 you’ll need to buy beer at the local bodega? Maybe you have the loot but you’re not 21? Ahh, just roll up on your bicycle, dash in the mini mart, snag a case of Bud Light, hop back on the bike and haul ass. That’s what a man who looked to be in his 20s did this week, and guess what? He got away with it; 2900 block Rosewood Dive.

29212
We read somewhere that push mowers are great for the environment; no toxic gas fumes, no carbon footprint. Well, in any case, someone this week jacked a 12-year-old Craftsman push mower from the garage of a 60-year-old man who had left the door open. Go green! 1500 block Lost Creek Road.

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