Hanging out turned into a nightmare for three people who allegedly were held at gunpoint for three hours Monday night.

Christopher Allen Spencer, 26, 246 Frank Hill Loop, Union, is charged by the Union County Sheriff’s Office with criminal domestic violence of a high and aggravated nature, assault and battery of a high and aggravatued nature and three counts of pointing and presenting a firearm.

The incident report states a deputy met Monday night with a man and a woman about an altercation at Spencer’s residence. They said they were picked up by a friend and went to the Frank Hill Loop residence to hang out. While they were there, they said they saw Spencer severely assault their friend, at one point getting on top of her and punching her about the head and body with his fist.

They said at one point Spencer got irate again about some money he was missing and pulled out a rifle and told them they could not leave until he found his money. They said he pointed the rifle at them and their friend and threatened to shoot them if he did not find his money. The woman said Spencer even hit her in the mouth with the barrel of the rifle and pulled her shirt and bra up and her jeans and underwear down to prove she didn’t have the money.

The man and the woman said during the three hours this went on Spencer pulled out two more long guns. They said they were finally able to take their friend’s car and leave. Both gave written statements about the incident to the deputy.

The report states after receiving the statements warrants were issued for Spencer’s arrest. A search warrant was also obtained and served at Spencer’s residence where he was taken into custody. During the search, deputies found three long guns, digital scales with a powder residue, gang paraphernalia and drug paraphernalia. The deputies also took pictures of the injuries suffered by the woman who was also at the residence.

Breach Of Trust

Addiction is always a terrible thing, but it gets even worse when it causes you to steal from your employer.

Stacey Lynn Bradburn, 30, 318 S. Fifth St., Lockhart, is charged by the sheriff’s office with breach of trust.

The incident report states a deputy was dispatched Monday to a convenience store at 4509 Jonesville-Lockhart Highway and met with the store’s chief of security who told them between March 20 and April 25 Bradburn, a cashier, had taken $4,426.72. He said the store had surveillance tapes of Bradburn taking the money and receipts that corroborated her doing so.

The deputy then asked to speak to Bradburn and her Miranda rights were given to her. The report states Bradburn admitted she took the money from the register and provided the deputy with a written statement of her embezzlement during the period listed by the security chief. She also told the deputy she had taken the money to support her pills addiction.

The security chief provided the deputy with a list of the receipts from her register during the period she was embezzling funds. The report states he is also in the process of gathering the footage from the surveillance system.

Bradburn was taken into custody and transported to jail.

Enticing an Enrolled Child

Taking a child out of school without her parents’ permission is a good way to end up in jail.

Frankie R. Campbell, 43, 411 Mill St., Lockhart, is charged by the public safety department with enticing an enrolled child from attending school.

The incident report states officers were notified Friday by Union County High School a student was missing. The student arrived at school and was observed leaving the lobby around 8:20 a.m. and had also left unexcused the previous day. When officers arrived, they found the school’s principal talking with the student’s father who told them another relative had located his daughter and was bringing her back to school.

When the girl arrived, she spoke to the principal and then was escorted by officers to the public safety department. The report states the girl initially told the principal a friend had picked her up but it was later learned she had been picked up by Campbell without her parents’ consent. The previous day the girl had been taken from school by a fellow student.

Campbell was taken into custody Tuesday morning.

Burglary

An argument between neighbors resulted in two women being arrested for burglary Tuesday evening.

Melanie Trammell Payne, 35, 415 Petrie Drive, Spartanburg, and Kimberly Ann Jennings, 46, 309 W. South St., Union, are both charged by the public safety department with burglary second-degree.

The incident report states an officer was dispatched Tuesday afternoon to a residence at 309B W. South St., Union, in reference to a report of an argument between neighbors. When the officer arrived he spoke with Payne, Jennings and a third woman who were all having words.

The third woman said she was in the process of moving out and when she left Monday night her doors were closed and a kitchen window was left open an inch. She said Payne called her and asked if she could have a ceramic heater, two fans and several other items that were in her house when she left Monday night. The woman said she later went into her house and found the kitchen window screen had been pushed in from the outside and several items were missing.

The items taken included a fan, the ceramic heater, a hand-held vacuum clearner, a weedeater, a folding closet door and miscellaneous tools. The items had a total value of approximately $500.

After being read their Miranda warnings, the report states Jennings told the officer she had been laying on the couch around 11:30 p.m. Monday when she noticed Payne coming into her house with a fan and a ceramic heater. She said she was half-asleep and didn’t realize until she got up in the morning and found several items in her room that didn’t belong to her. Jennings said she told Payne to take the items back to the victim’s house because they could not have them.

Payne, however, said the victim had given her those items and she had gotten them off the front porch. The report states Payne finally admitted going into the house and taking the items but that Jennnings had went with her. She was then taken into custody and a few hours later Jennings was also arrested.

All of the items but the miscellaneous tools were recovered.

Drug Bust

Eleven months after he allegedly made the sale, a Union man was arrested for distributing marijuana.

Algreco Lopiz Woods, 35, 200 Tillman St., Union, is charged by the public safety department with distribution of marijuana and distribution within proximity of a school.

The warrants for Woods arrest state on May 29, 2009, he distributed a quantity of marijuana to a confidential informant in exchange for funds provided by law enforcement. The exchange took place on Tillman Street within a half mile of Excelsior School.

Woods was taken into custody Thursday afternoon.