A BB gun is still a gun, especially if it’s used to rob someone.

Jim Seydaran Fant, 18, 316 Sonoco Road, Union, is charged by the Union County Sheriff’s Office with robbery for allegedly participating in the Oct. 29 robbery of a 14-year-old boy.

The victim told deputies he’d ridden the bus from school with two other teens to a residence on Sunny Acres Road. After they got off the bus, they went into the woods to shoot a BB gun one of the other teens had in his pocket. When they got in the woods, the teen took the gun out and pointed it at the victim.

The victim said the other teen held him down while the gunman took $28 and a cell phone from his pants pockets. The two then ran out of the woods.

The victim said he went to a nearby house to call his grandmother to come pick him up. The grandmother told deputies she and her grandson went to the house on Sunny Acres to speak to one of the teen’s parents but no one would come to the door.

The victim said he’d known the gunman for years, but did not know the other teen. He said all he knew was the other male was a friend of the gunman and had gotten on the bus with them.

Fant was taken into custody Tuesday and transported to the Union County Jail where he was still being held as of Wednesday afternoon.

The other teen involved in the robbery is a juvenile. He has also been arrested and sent to the S.C. Department of Juvenile Justice in Columbia where he is awaiting a detention hearing.

Criminal Domestic Violence

A man should never hit a woman.

Shawn Anthony Everhart, 27, 141 Oakgrove Road, Lot No. 1, is charged by the sheriff's office with criminal domestic violence second offense. Everhart was arrested Tuesday night after deputies were dispatched to his home in response to a report of a fight.

When they arrived, the victim told deputies she and Everhart had gotten into an argument at Shady's earlier in the evening. She said when they were in his car, Everhart started hitting her in the head and face. She said he took her to his home and continued to attack her. She told the deputies before they arrived he had also started a fight with his mother and brother.

The deputies reported the victim was bleeding from her nose and mouth. They also found blood in Everhart's car. The report states the deputies got a written statement about the incident from Everhart's mother and brother.

Everhart was taken into custody and transported to the jail where he remained until being released on bond Wednesday night.

Animal Cruelty

Shooting a stray dog just because your dog keeps running off with it can land you in jail as a Pacolet man found out Tuesday afternoon.

Michael Allen Ham, 22, 2953 Jerusalem Road, is charged by the sheriff’s office with animal cruelty.

Deputies were called to the Kelly Road in response to a report of a dog being shot. The complainant said she’d seen a man later identified as Ham shooting a stray dog in a neighboring yard on the Kelly Road. She said she confronted him about this and asked him where the wounded dog ran. She said the man told her it was under the trailer.

When deputies arrived at the scene of the shooting they found Ham sitting on the front porch and the dog under the trailer. Questioned about the incident, Ham said he’d shot the dog because it was a nuisance and his dog would always run off with it. He said he’d never filed a complaint about the animal with either the sheriff’s office or Animal Control.

Animal Control personnel were called to the scene and removed the dog from under the trailer. Because of the severity of its wounds the animal had to be euthanized.

Ham was taken into custody and transported to the jail where he was released on bond later that day.

Investigations

The Union Public Safety Department is investigating an act of vandalism that caused $1,000 worth of damage to an automobile.

Officers were dispatched Tuesday morning to a residence at 206 Wallace St. where the owner of the vehicle told them someone had keyed her 1997 Honda, writing obscenities on the hood, trunk and both sides. The car was vandalized sometime between 8 p.m. Monday and 7:50 a.m. Tuesday.

Arrests

Michael Steve Cavender, 50, 1208 West Main St., Union, charged Tuesday by the sheriff’s office with public intoxication.

Reginald Jermaine Grayson, 32, 803 Hetty Hill Road, Gaffney, charged Wednesday by the sheriff’s office with driving under suspension.

Claude Henry Gilliam, 58, 221 East Main St., Apt. 406, Union, charged Tuesday by the public safety department with disorderly conduct.

Melissa Florice Trammell, 33, 288 Sonoco Road, Union, charged Tuesday by the public safety department with simple possesison of marijuana and trespassing after notice.

Melanie Trammell Payne, 35, 309 West St., Apt. A, Union, charged Tuesday by the public safety department with trespassing.