On Dec. 12, a Winthrop staff member informed an officer from the Winthrop University Police Department that she and a coworker had noticed an “unknown white powdery substance in a small plastic baggie that had busted open” near the intersection at Oakland Avenue and Myrtle Drive. According to the report, the officer collected the unknown substance, placed it into evidence and “labeled it for destruction.”
On Dec. 20, WUPD was contacted by a Winthrop staff member in regards to a trespassing incident. The complainant told police that an individual who is “[n]o longer Winthrop [a]ffiliated” had been in the Conservatory of Music. The suspect was reportedly demanding to speak with the new chair of the department. The suspect was informed by the complainant that the department chair was in a meeting and that the suspect was not supposed to be in the building as he is on trespass. The suspect reportedly continued to demand to speak with the department chair and eventually asked the complainant if she would be calling the police if he did not leave. The complainant said that the suspect “finally left with his walker.” The complainant said that the suspect got into a car and sat in it for 15 minutes before driving away. The complainant “stated she believed [the suspect] was possibly drunk because she could smell alcohol on him.” The officer “determined there was enough probable cause to issue an arrest warrant” for the suspect.
A WUPD officer was conducting stationary patrol on Jan. 1 when he saw a vehicle “make an illegal left hand turn from Oakland Avenue onto Eden Terrace.” According to the report, the driver subsequently failed to “yield to the right of way as the vehicle was turning left.” The officer pulled the suspect over, ran the suspect’s license and was informed that the suspect’s “license was suspended for failure to pay traffic citations.” The suspect was placed under arrest and booked into Rock Hill’s city jail.
On Jan. 2, WUPD officers responded to another incident regarding the suspect again at the Conservatory of Music. The complainant and a faculty member were walking to the Conservatory when the suspect allegedly attempted to converse with them from his vehicle. The pair walked into the Conservatory, locked the door and contacted WUPD. Another trespass warrant was issued for the suspect.
On Jan. 6, an officer and a sergeant with WUPD were conducting a stationary radar patrol when, according to the report, the sergeant “measured a tan Lexus SUV … going 50 mph in a 35 mph zone.” When an officer made contact with the driver, she said that she was speeding because she was “on her way to drop her daughter off at daycare.” The officer ran the driver’s license and the license plate and discovered that both were suspended. The suspect and her daughter were picked up by a relative and the SUV was towed.
A Winthrop staff member contacted WUPD on Jan. 10 to report that the Sellers House had been damaged. The complainant told an officer that a “large white GMC truck scraped the side of the Sellers House,” according to the report. The officer inspected the damage and was “advised” by the complainant that “the Subject could be a client” of a lawyer located next door to the Sellers House. The officer spoke with a witness who identified the subject. The witness further described the incident as having occurred some time during the night of Jan. 9. The report states that a lawyer “advised the Subject to report the incident to Winthrop police” but that the subject “did not report the damage to property and left the scene of an accident.” The subject followed up with WUPD on Jan. 11 to fill out paperwork that related to the incident. The officer “issued the Subject a citation for Leaving Scene of an Accident (Fixed Object).”
