On Feb. 5, the Reporting Officer (R/O) was dispatched to Phelps Hall due to the detection of marijuana. The R/O arrived and made contact with the complainant, a resident assistant. The complainant led the R/O to the suspects’ room. Upon arrival, the R/O could detect an odor of marijuana.
The R/O made contact with Suspect #1 and asked if she had any marijuana in the room. The suspect stated that she had some in the room and gave it to the R/O. The R/O then informed the suspect that he would search the room to be sure there was no other marijuana. The suspect stated that her boyfriend was in the shower, and the R/O informed the suspect that she and her boyfriend needed to stand in the hallway while the search was conducted.
Upon searching the room, the R/O discovered several packs of cigarillos and two bottles of liquor. The liquor was in Suspect #2’s desk. Suspect #2 is also under the age of 21. The R/O asked who brought the marijuana, and Suspect #1 stated that she did not want to tell on anyone, but they went in together as roommates to get it. The R/O then informed Suspect #1’s boyfriend that since he was not a student and there is no tolerance for illegal substances on campus, he would be trespassed from campus for one year.
The R/O informed Suspect #1 that she and Suspect #2 would be referred to the Dean of Students for the marijuana and alcohol in the room.
On Feb. 7, the Reporting Officer (R/O) was dispatched to 1210 Winthrop Senior Circle, in the city limits of Rock Hill, at Phelps Hall. Dispatch informed the R/O that there were several individuals outside yelling and talking about alcohol.
Once the R/O arrived, he made contact with several students in a Nissan Altima playing loud music. The R/O asked them to turn the music down, and they complied. The R/O then observed a group of about four individuals talking extremely loud. The R/O informed them to keep it down because there were several complaints about the noise level outside Phelps Hall. Three of the individuals then went to their dorm.
The R/O observed several cans of beer on the ground and one individual still standing right near them. The R/O asked the suspect if the beer cans were his. The suspect then replied, “Why would they be mine?” The R/O informed the suspect that he was standing right next to them, the odor of an alcoholic beverage was coming from his person, and it appeared that there was spilled beer on his shirt.
The R/O then asked for his identification, to which the suspect responded, “Don’t you have anything else f***ing better to do?”
The R/O then asked for the suspect’s identification again, and the suspect gave the R/O his student identification. The R/O then asked for his driver’s license as well, and the R/O observed that the suspect was under the age of 21. The suspect told the R/O that he was just going to get some food, pointing at Thomson. The R/O then informed the suspect that he could not enter Thomson because he was intoxicated.
The suspect stated that he would then run and try to get away. The suspect then became emotionally angry once the R/O informed him he could not leave. So, the R/O asked the suspect to put his hands behind his back, causing the suspect to become physically agitated. Once the R/O had one cuff on the suspect, the suspect was balling up his right fist and grabbing his right wrist with his left hand. The R/O told the suspect to let go of his wrist.
Once the suspect was in handcuffs, the R/O checked for proper fit and double-locked each cuff. The R/O then asked the suspect to calm down, and the suspect replied, “F**k you, bro.” The suspect then began to say, “Put me in jail, bro. I want to die, bro.”
The R/O then escorted the suspect to the back of his patrol vehicle to begin a search. The suspect then turned around and started to scream in the R/O’s face, “Put me in f***ing jail.” The R/O then pinned the suspect to the back of his vehicle to prevent the suspect from spitting at him. The suspect attempted to keep turning around on the R/O while yelling at him, and the R/O performed a leg sweep and assisted the suspect to the ground lying face down.
The suspect then began to yell, “I want you to die. I literally want you to f***ing die.” As the R/O searched the suspect, the suspect said, “Kill me, bro, kill me.” The suspect then yelled as loud as he could, “I want you to kill me.” As the R/O attempted to help the suspect back up to his feet, the suspect yelled, “I don’t give a f**k,” and was spitting as he said it. After the R/O asked the suspect to stop spitting, he began to spit even more.
The R/O then tilted the suspect’s head to the ground to prevent him from spitting on
the R/O. The R/O then assisted the suspect to his feet and placed him into the back of the patrol vehicle.
The R/O then collected the empty beer cans as evidence and returned to his vehicle to ask the suspect if he needed EMS. The suspect stated he wanted to be let go. The R/O informed the suspect that it was not happening. The suspect then stated, “Well, then I don’t give a f**k what you say.” The R/O then transported the suspect to the Rock Hill city jail.
On the way to the jail, the suspect began to hit his head on the glass of the rear passenger side window, and the R/O asked him to stop. As the R/O was approaching Rock Hill Jail, the R/O radioed dispatch to have the jailers assist in trying to get the suspect out of the vehicle. Rock Hill Police Department (RHPD) arrived and assisted the R/O in getting the suspect out of the vehicle. The RHPD officers began to escort the suspect into the jail. As they were escorting the suspect, he attempted to spit on the officers.
As the RHPD officers escorted the suspect to his cell, he began yelling at the officers, telling them, “You ain’t sh*t,” “Kill me,” and “I just want to f***ing die.” The R/O then booked the suspect in the Rock Hill City Jail for public disorderly conduct.
