Police blotter

Items taken as man serves time

A Summerville man serving time in jail may have less to go home to.

According to a Dorchester County Sheriff's report, a 29-year-old Charleston man complained that someone was stealing from his 49-year-old father's Central Avenue home while his father's in jail. The son estimates a refrigerator, washer and dryer, three televisions, wooden dresser and hand-carved wooden chest, valued to-gether at $3,600, had been taken.

Man accused of pointing shotgun

Four people accused a man of pointing a shotgun at them over a property dispute in Harleyville on Dec. 7.

According to the Dorchester County Sheriff's Office incident report, the suspect was putting up a fence near the property line, which was in dispute by both parties. The primary accuser said when she walked to the back of her property to see where the fence was going, the man pointed a shotgun at her.

The officer asked the man if he owned a shotgun, which he admitted to but denied he pointed it at the four people, and got "very verbal" with the officer, the report says. The officer left the man, and the others signed forms saying they wish to press charges.

Suspect flees after soda theft

A man took 16 2-liter bottles of soda from a display in front of a Central Avenue store and sped away when store employees tried to stop him Dec. 4, reports say.

The man put the bottles into a car and hit another parked vehicle in his rush to get away.

Employees noted the license tag and reported it to the police.

Reports state that the Buick belonged to a Summerville woman who had loaned her car to a male friend, but she reportedly told police that she didn't believe he would steal anything.

The man was unable to be located, and it was unknown if he was driving the car during the shoplifting incident.

These news items are taken from selected incident reports from the Dorchester County Sheriff's Office.