On March 31, the Reporting Officer (R/O) met with a subject who informed the R/O that she and her mother had been receiving many threatening phone calls and messages from her sister.
The subject showed the R/O a recording of a voice message her mother had received and explained that the sister had been threatening to come to Winthrop campus and remove the tires from the subject’s vehicle as well as threatening to physically harm her and her mother. The R/O made contact with the sister and informed her to no longer contact the subject or their mother.
On April 1, the R/O observed a vehicle making improper turns and proceeded to follow the driver to observe their driving patterns. The R/O stayed behind the vehicle and observed the driver disregard the vehicle control device at an intersection when it was red.
The R/O attempted a traffic stop, but the vehicle turned right and failed to yield. The vehicle continued to travel down Stewart Avenue and finally yielded at the intersection of Ebenezer Avenue and Alumni Drive.
The R/O made contact with the driver, who stated that he was stressed out and in a hurry because he was looking for two females that were in an altercation. The R/O asked for his South Carolina driver’s license, registration and proof of insurance. The driver then rolled his window back up and proceeded to drive off from the traffic stop, so the R/O followed in pursuit of the driver.
Sergeant Kevin Sullivan told the R/O to stop the pursuit, and the R/O stopped following the vehicle and saw him leaving in an unknown direction.
When Sullivan ran the plates through NCIC, the vehicle came back registered to a different person than the driver the R/O had seen in the vehicle. The vehicle’s owners, the victim and her mother, were told to call WUPD as they did not know who would be driving their vehicle. The victim gave Sullivan the suspect information, who attempted to call the suspect but was unable to make contact.
