Horry County Crime Report 2005

These are taken from Myrtle Beach Access. These crimes were reported in Horry County, South Carolina. I didn't edit these, but copied and pasted them into place. After a "clean up" by the corporate overloards when local crime suddenly ceased (to be reported) calmer heads have prevailed and the news is back!

Dude crashes his Chevy and knocks Charlie Brown outta bed or if you see a 24 year old man with hispanic last name behind the wheel of a car RUN, Part One.
HORRY COUNTY
June 20

Area sees share of odd vehicle crashes during week
Family recovering after driver slams car into home
By Paul Nelson
The Sun News

In a matter of seconds, Billy-Joe Alger went from relaxing on the couch watching television and talking to his wife's brother to picking himself off the living-room floor of his mother-in-law's mobile home in Longs.
The 24-year-old bolted out the back door to investigate what struck the house. He found a car with its hood wedged under where the front door and porch once stood, and the gravely injured driver was still inside. Authorities have identified the man, who was impaled by a piece of wood from the house, as Umberto Macario Palacios, 25, of Shallotte, N.C. He was pronounced dead at the scene by Horry County Chief Deputy Coroner Dan Bellamy.
Sonny Collins, a spokesman with the state Highway Patrol, said Palacios hurtled through a stop sign at the intersection of S.C. 905 and East Beargrass Road and then plowed into the house around 11:48 p.m. Friday. Police say alcohol is thought to be a factor in the crash.
Fearing that the Chevrolet Corsica might explode, Alger reached in and shut off the car as his mother-in-law Sharon Brown called 911. Two other people also lived in the house. Alger was visiting with his 3-year-old son. No one in the house was hurt.
The family, however, was displaced because of the damage to the home.
The Horry County chapter of the American Red Cross put them up at a North Myrtle Beach hotel Friday night, and their landlord has allowed them to stay at another home in the community, Sharon Brown said. The family had been in the house for about two months.
"Everyone was freaked out, and my sister-in-law started to cry," said Alger, who lives a few miles away in Longs. "He hit the house so hard that the back wall pulled away from the floor and the whole house moved about a foot and a half in both directions."
The house also was knocked off the foundation blocks in the front, Alger said.
Sharon Brown recalled that the impact of the crash was so jarring that it sent her husband, Charlie Brown, from one end of their queen-size bed to the other and dumped her off the chair she was sitting on at the time.
"It sounded like something had exploded ... or there was an earthquake," she said Sunday.
Dishes in the cabinet became projectiles and food in the refrigerator was strewn about the house, she said. She said her son's bedroom, the kitchen and the bathroom suffered extensive damage.
Brown said she recognized Palacios from seeing him playing soccer and hanging out with friends in the neighborhood. The wreck is under investigation, police said.

If you see a 24 year old man with hispanic last name behind the wheel of a car RUN, Part Two.
Posted on Mon, Jun. 20, 2005

Roads leave no shortage of action for MB police
By Brock Vergakis
The Sun News

It wasn't a good weekend to be a parked car in Myrtle Beach.
Or a concrete pole. Or a tree.
Even stopping in traffic was risky for several motorists who were rear-ended by other drivers who were charged with driving under the influence.
It was a weekend filled with crashes.
One woman was thrown off her mo-ped after running a red light and hitting a car Saturday at the intersection of 21st Avenue North and Oak Street.
The Myrtle Beach woman suffered a brain hemorrhage and was taken to the Medical University of South Carolina in Charleston, where she is listed in critical condition and is expected to be fine, Myrtle Beach police Investigator Jim Allen said.
Police also were kept busy Saturday after a 24-year-old Myrtle Beach man struck three different cars in three different locations. He was charged with driving under the influence of alcohol.
The first wreck occurred when Johnny Diaz Cruz rear-ended a stopped car on North Ocean Boulevard about 5:20 p.m., then fled and dropped his passenger off, Allen said.
He then picked up two other people and proceeded to hit another stopped car on U.S. 17 near Ninth Avenue South, police said. Once again, he fled the scene, according to incident reports, and dropped off one of his passengers.
He finally was caught after a citywide search by police after he hit a car at the intersection of U.S. 501 and Oak Street about 8:10 p.m.
When police apprehended him, Cruz did not have a driver's license and had open containers of alcohol in the car, Allen said.
Cruz faces 14 different charges and $4,000 in fines if convicted. A passenger faces charges of public intoxication.
But that wasn't the only case of a driver being involved in multiple crashes Saturday.
A 15-year-old N.C. girl driving without any parental supervision hit a stopped car on U.S. 17 Business, then fled and hit a concrete post and tension wire about 20 yards away on the corner of Fifth Avenue South.
It took police about 30 minutes to find the girl, Allen said.
When they did, they also found that she had hit a parked car on 311 N. Ocean Blvd.
Those wrecks came after a crash Friday evening near Mr. Joe White Avenue when a Myrtle Beach man drove off the road and hit a city sign, several trees and shrubbery before ending up in a pond with his car partially submerged.
Three city firefighters saw the crash happen from their station, rushed to Futrell Park and performed CPR on the driver before he was taken to a hospital. Police say the man might have been under the influence of drugs, Allen said.

Staff Writer Janelle Frost contributed to this report.

Posted on Thu, Jun. 16, 2005
Myrtle Beach

Not smoking, watching tv, or doing a crossword, just sitting
Man sitting in motel robbed at gunpoint

A Cheraw man was robbed at gunpoint Tuesday while sitting in his room at an Ocean Boulevard motel, police said.Police said that the victim was not injured and that no one was charged.

The man told police he was in his room with the door partially open when two man entered and asked for someone the man didn't know.One of the men pulled out a gun and pointed it at the victim. The other man then went through items that belonged to the victim and his family, police said. The victim's wallet and cell phone were among the items taken.The men then ran toward the beach. Police are investigating.

If skateboarding isn't a crime than why punish his broke ass?
Man reports attempted robbery near home

A Myrtle Beach man told police he was attacked Tuesday while skating in front of his home in the 400 block of North Chester Street.
Police said a small group of men approached the man from behind about 9:30 p.m., demanded money, then hit him in the face.
The man said he saw a knife, but it wasn't used against him. Police said the men left with no money because the victim had none.
No one has been charged.

Posted on Fri, Jun. 03, 2005
SURFSIDE BEACH

Just run when you see a Hispanic guys-seriously run like hell.
Man charged in fatal attack
Stabbing at Wal-Mart killed one person, injured another
By Jessica Foster

The Sun NewsThe man accused of stabbing a woman to death and attacking her companion in a Wal-Mart parking lot was charged Thursday with murder, as well as assault and battery with intent to kill, police said.
The fight broke out in the parking lot of the Wal-Mart on Beaver Run Boulevard in Surfside Beach shortly before 6 p.m. Wednesday.
When Horry County Police Officer Frank Venegas arrived at the scene, he was flagged down by four individuals who "had a Hispanic male on the ground, face down handcuffed and legs shackled with a dog leash," according to Venegas' supplemental police report.
Liuvia Facundo Sanchez, 20, of Garden City Beach, was taken to Grand Strand Regional Medical Center, where she died, said Tamara Willard, Horry County deputy coroner.
Mauricio Leal was stabbed, apparently as he tried to defend the victim, police said. He also was treated at Grand Strand Regional Medical Center and discharged, hospital officials said.
Ardelio Lopez, 27, was charged Thursday and was being held at J. Reuben Long Detention Center awaiting a bond hearing.
Neither a motive for the attack nor a relationship between the victim and suspect have been determined.
"The only thing we can tell at this point is they are acquaintances," Maj. David Avant said.
Employees of nearby stores saw the ambulances and police cars, but some said they didn't find out what happened until later.
"I was just standing at the front window, and I didn't know what was going on. I just thought there was an arrest," said Stephanie Veilleux, an employee of the nearby Cato clothing store.
"I saw this Wal-Mart guy chasing a ... man across the parking lot, and then he tackled him," she said.
Police and other sources said a Wal-Mart employee was instrumental in capturing the suspect, but Wal-Mart wouldn't identify the employee Thursday.