Lakisha Hughes, 30, of 239 Buffalo St. was charged Tuesday by the Union County Sheriff’s Office with permitting an unauthorized person to drive. She has been released from the Union County Jail. Warrants have been signed on the 21-year-old Union man who is believed to have been driving her car.
Early Sunday morning, officers set up a perimeter in the Arthur Boulevard/Calhoun Street area after a man driving a stolen truck and his accomplice jumped out and ran from Deputy Roger Hill. The men also were pulling a stolen trailer with a stolen Bobcat on back.
Sheriff David Taylor told officers to stop all cars coming into the area in case the two used a cell phone to call for a ride.
Sgt. Wendy Childers saw a gray Nissan Maxima driving west on Calhoun Street. She approached the vehicle. The driver partially rolled down the window . When he was asked to give identifying information, he sped away. Officers pursued and found the abandoned vehicle on Ned’s Place with the keys in the ignition, the engine running and the driver’s door open.
Officers contacted Ms. Hughes, the owner of the car, and she said the vehicle had not been stolen, she had let the man borrow it to go to a party in the Lakewood area. After viewing a photo of the man, Childers identified him as the driver of the car. He has no license. He will be charged with leaving an unattended vehicle with the engine running and driving without a license.
Taylor said the man hindered the investigation into the truck theft because officers thought he might be involved.
Brandon James White, 24, of 609 Garvin Lake Road, Gaffney, was arrested in connection with the theft of the truck. He was taken into custody about three hours after he jumped out of the truck. Officers are still looking for his accomplice. White was charged with giving false information to police, failure to stop for a blue light, driving under suspension, third offense; being an habitual traffic offender; two counts of possession of a stolen vehicle and having no tail lamps on the trailer he was pulling.
Appliance stolen from new school
Tuesday, it was reported to Deputy Roxie Belue that someone took a GE washing machine worth $300 from inside the new Sims Middle School on 2200 Whitmire Highway. The report said a door was left open by a work crew member by mistake.
Also on Tuesday, a victim on 1208 West Main St. told Officer Curtis Eubanks that someone took his Tomos Moped from in front of his apartment. It is worth $500. It has a torn seat and missing foot pegs
Cruelty to animals
On 105 Baber St. a man told Cpl. Randy Manus Tuesday that someone injured two dogs in his neighborhood.
The victim said the dogs don’t belong to him but he feeds them. They came into his yard and he noticed both had large cuts on them. He said he felt like the injuries had to have been done by someone close by. Animal control was called to pick up the dogs.
Teen arrested
A 16-year-old Jonesville boy was charged Tuesday with disorderly conduct and resisting arrest after he became irate and began cursing his mother while at the Union Public Safety Department.
A report said Investigator Brian Bailey, Investigator Robbie McGee and School Resource Officer Cornell Mauney responded from the office to a disturbance outside the building at public safety. In the lobby they found the boy’s mother, who asked the officers to remove the teen-ager from her car.
Officers went outside and the boy began cursing his mother loudly and then walked off. Bailey asked him several times to return. Bailey took him by the arms and brought him back to the vehicle, where he continued to be irate and cursed his mother even louder. The boy was advised he was under arrest for disorderly conduct and Bailey attempted to place his arms behind his back. He resisted and was taken to the ground by the officers with no further incident.
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