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POLICE REPORT 1 I >3 I These reports are taken directly from the USC Police Department Pnmnilprl hv Ariam Rpam Each number on the map stands for a crime corresponding with numbered descriptions in the list below. DAY CRIMES (6a.m.-6 p.m.) □ Violent ' : O Nonviolent NIGHT CRIMES (6 p.m.-6a.m.) ■ Violent • Nonviolent CRIMES AT UNKNOWN HOURS 0 Violent 0 Nonviolent Wednesday, Oct. 22 © MALICIOUS INJURY TO PERSONAL PROPERTY, BLOSSOM STREET GARAGE, 1300 BLOSSOM ST. The complainant said someone scratched the left side of her car. Estimated damage: $400. Reporting officer: J.L. Taylor Jr. Thursday, Oct. 23 © MALICIOUS INJURY TO REAL PROPERTY, BULL STREET GARAGE, 600 BULL ST. The complainant said someone pulled the arm off the inbound gate. Estimated damage: $2,500. Reporting officer: J.M. Simmons. Friday, Oct. 24 □ ASSAULT AND BATTERY, GREEK VILLAGE BETWEEN KA AND SIGMA NU HOUSES, 1000 BLOSSOM ST. The victim said he was physically assaulted by SgSiiHfflfiMHHjH ■ i 'f, iJ” BBfliiMSl several people. He said he is certain that the unknown subjects were all members of the Sigma Nu fraternity. The victim told this to reporting officer J.A. Clarke at the USC police department about eight hours after the event. Clarke called First Responder to check on the victim’s injuries. The victim is not a student and said he would have his injuries checked by some more doctors. Clarke notified investigators Gallman and Branham, who took pictures. The victim provided Clarke with a written statement, and Clarke issued a victim’s impact statement. The victim told Clarke that his friend might know several of the subjects. The victim provided Clarke with two names — one was his roommate and the other was a friend whom he was dropping off when the incident occurred. The victim gave Clarke all the information about these two witnesses that he knew. Clarke told the victim he might be able to seek out a warrant for the offense. (4) LARCENY OF TOOLSHED, 1501 WHALEY ST. The complainant said someone took a toolshed from the above location. Estimated value: $900. Reporting officer: J.M. Simmons. ® AUTO BREAK-IN, GRAND LARCENY OF VEHICLE PARTS, BLOSSOM STREET GARAGE, 1300 BLOSSOM ST. The victim said someone broke into his car. He said that the person took two 15-inch T-View televisions, one 5.6-inch television and one Sony PlayStation game console. Estimated value: $855. Reporting officer J.A. Clarke discovered two screwdrivers that did not belong to the owner. Investigators Mitchum and Sonnefeld were both at the garage when the incident happened. They had seen the car complete and untouched when they passed it at 1:30 p.m. ® INFORMATION, CORNER OF GERVAIS AND SUMTER STREETS The complainant said she saw a male of unknown race wearing a black ski mask driving a burgundy- and cream-colored * van. A black male child, about 6 to 7 years old, was in the back seat and screaming for help. Information was sent out and local agencies were notified. Command staff was also notified. Reporting officer: G.S. Whitlock. (7) INFORMATION (VEHICLE ACCIDENT), 600 BULL ST. The victim said he was hit by the subject’s car when the subject backed into him. The victim said he spoke with the subject and that the victim told the subject he was not insured and did not wish for the police to be notified. The victim said he thinks his right wrist was sore as well as his right ankle but couldn’t be sure because he said it might all be in his head. Reporting officer: J.M. Simmons. □ DISORDERLY CONDUCT, 710 ASSEMBLY ST. Reporting officers W.R. Snyder and L.M. Braham said they saw Leslie Wayne Harpin arguing with his girlfriend. When the officers approached the subject, police said he put his hands on her. The officers intervened and said the subject then pushed them. X he police said the subject was combative and had an odor of alcohol on hj£ breath. The subject was arrested and continued to fight. Saturday, Oct. 25 O TRESPASS AFTER NOTICE, CARRYING OR DISPLAYING FIREARMS, UNLAWFUL CARRYING OF PISTOL, GRAVEL PARKING LOT, 1600 WHEAT ST. Reporting officer E.L. Pereira saw Travis Sentell Ray and Chamoy Y. Walker parked in a dark area of the lot. Pereira stopped to investigate. When Pereira approached the car, he recognized Ray. Police said Ray had been warned to stay off USC property and was given a trespass warning on Sept. 30. Because the lot is USC property, the subject was arrested for trespass after notice. A search of the vehicle yielded two fully loaded handguns: A Bryco handgun, serial number 1426585, was found under the driver’s front seat, and a Titan2 auto .380 caliber handgun was found under the left side of the passenger’s seat. Also a box of Winchester .380-caliber ammo was found with 13 bullets remaining. The subject said he knew the handguns were in the car. The subject said Walker did not know the handguns were there. Ray was arrested. © AUTO BREAK-IN, LARCENY OF CDS, 300 LINCOLN ST. The victim said someone broke out the rear sliding window of the victim’s car and took a pair of Oakley sunglasses, a Panasonic CD player, a black CD case and 5< CDs. Estimated value: $745. Reporting officer: J.M. Simmons @ INFORMATIONAL, MINOR WITH BEER, ALTERED DRIVER’S LICENSE, 1000 GEORGE ROGERS BLVD (OFF MAP) John Reynolds Lacoste was found witl an open container of beer in his possession. The subject also had an altered driver’s license in his pocket. The subject had in his front pockets a substance ' thought to be Adderall. ivepui img omcer. Cj. reieua. © CIVIL DISPUTE, WILLIAMS BRICE STADIUM, 1000 GEORGE ROGERS BLVD (OFF MAP) The victim said Michael E. Mitchell pushed him down. The victim was advised how he could resolve the incident. Investigation continues. Reporting officer: S.P. Sonnefeld © MALICIOUS INJURY TO PERSONAL PROPERTY, 1501 PENDLETON ST. The victim said someone busted out the rear passenger’s-side window of his car. Estimated damage: $250. Reporting officer: J.M. Simmons. @ MALICIOUS INJURY TO PERSONAL PROPERTY, 1423 WHALEY ST. The victim said someone damaged her car by denting the passenger’s-side rear fender. Estimated damage: $100. Reporting officer: J.L. Meador Monday, Oct. 27 0 ACCIDENTAL FIRE, EAST QUAD, 1400 BLOSSOM ST. Reporting officers G. Kerwin and B. Baker responded to a fire alarm at East Quad. The fourth floor was smoky on the entire south wing. Smoke came from Room 431. The oven had a pot inside, and the pot and oven were on fire. Two fire extinguishers were near the stove. One was completely used up. Baker shot the stove with the other extinguisher. He also advised Kerwin to stand back. After the extinguisher was used up, the officers left the building and waited for the Columbia Fire Department, which went up to i the room and extinguished the rest of the fire. All occupants of the apartment said they knew f nothing about what was inside the oven and that nobody was cooking anything. <§) LARCENY OF TEXTBOOKS, THOMAS COOPER LIBRARY, 1322 GREENE ST. The victim said he fell asleep for a moment and that someone took his chemistry book, a calculator, a book bag, an engineering book and an English 101 book. Estimated value: $443. Reporting officers: C. Taylor. ® ASSAULT AND BATTERY, PATTERSON HALL, 1520 DEVINE ST. When reporting officer S. Alexander arrived, the victim said Sarah J. Carson hit her with a closed hand in the face. The victim had scratches on her chest and right biceps, bruises on her left arm and a carpet ’ bum on her right elbow. The victim also complained of injury to her right hand. The subject as not on the scene. Housing was notified. @ ILLEGAL USE OF TELEPHONE, BATES HOUSE, 1423 WHALEY ST. The complainant said the subject called her cell phone and threatened her on four occasions. Reporting officer: J.L. Meador. © MALICIOUS INJURY TO PERSONAL PROPERTY, 1020 BLOSSOM ST. The victim said someone broke the rear passenger’s-side door. Estimated damage: $250. Reporting officer: D. Hare. Car bomb in Fallujah kills at least 4 following series of suicide attacks BY TAREK AL-ISSAWI THE ASSOCIATED PRESS FALLUJAH, IRAQ - A car bomb exploded Tuesday near a police station on a major street in the tense city of Fallujah, killing at least four people, police said. The attack came a day after a series of suicide bombings in Baghdad left about three dozen dead. Later Tuesday, eight massive explosions were heard after sun down in Fallujah, coming from the southern area of the city. U.S. officials in Baghdad said they were unaware of the explosions, which residents described as “deafening.” The violence in Fallujah came after a string of deadly attacks in the Iraqi capital targeting the U.S. led occupation and Iraqis who are perceived as working with it. In Baghdad, the U.S. occupation authority announced that gunmen killed one of the capital’s three deputy mayors in a hit-and-run shooting Sunday — the same day that insurgents hammered a Baghdad hotel with rockets, killing an American soldier. Those attacks were followed on Monday with the bloodiest day in Baghdad since Saddam’s regime fell more than six months ago. Suicide bombers struck the Red Cross headquarters and three po lice stations, killing eight Iraqi po licemen, at least 26 Iraqi civilians and a U.S. soldier. In Washington, President Bush port and investigators are trying to determine if it’s authentic, said the official on condition of anonymity. In the northern city of Mosul, the editor of an independent Iraqi newspaper was shot and killed Tuesday by men who followed him up to the roof of his office’s build «« l_ uicuiicu uum ivy alists to Saddam Hussein and for eign terrorists for the recent attacks. “Basically what they’re try ing to do is cause people to run.... “Basically what they’re trying to do is cause people to run.... That’s what terrorists do.” GEORGE W. BUSH PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES made a phone • call. Ahmed Shawkat, edi tor of the inde pendent “Without Direction,” had received That’s what terrorists do,” Bush told a Rose Garden news confer ence Tuesday. After Monday’s attacks, aid or ganizations Tuesday were weigh-, ing their role in the insurgency plagued nation. U.S. officials were unsure who was responsible. Investigators are trying to de termine whether a would-be fifth suicide bomber is truly Syrian as he claims, an official of the U.S. oc cupation authority said. The man had a Syrian pass death threats for his writings, which have been critical of the anti-U.S. resistance as well as the U.S. occupation, said his daughter, Roaa. Tuesday’s bomb in Fallujah, 40 miles west of Baghdad, was in a Toyota that exploded in front of a power station and about 30 yards from a school and 100 yards from a police station, witness Hamid Ali said. The target was unclear. Tawfiq Mijbel, who was badly injured by shrapnel, said he had been driving directly behind the vehicle that exploded. “It stopped in front of the power company. A man got out, while another stayed in the car. A few seconds later it blew up,” Mijbel said from his hos pital bed. Khamis Mijbal, who owns a shop opposite the spot where the car blew up said the blast produced a massive ball of fire and that de bris flew in all directions. The school was closed, but po- ( lice said one body was found in side. Police Col. Jalal Sabri said all the victims appeared to have been bystanders. Sabri said at least four people were dead but the number could reach six. The count was dif ficult because some victims were dismembered, he said. The brazen and deadly attacks in Baghdad attested to the surge in resistance by opponents of the American occupation. Secretary of State Colin Powell urged the Red Cross and other non government organizations to stay in Iraq. “They are needed. Their work is needed. And if they are driven out, then the terrorists win,” Powell said Monday in Washington. 1 B This Week Only! | Rainbow Skechers Steve Madden Reef 631D Harden St. (803) 254-9488 Nievw' The Shoe Market g www.studentadvantage.com BRIEFLY SG to consider act to reform parking The Student Senate will be considering a parking reform act today that would implement a priority system for assigning re served garage spots. The act, en titled “Cocky’s Parking Reform Act,” was fashioned by Sens. Ben Havird, Julie Kreisman and Patrick Walsh. Along with as signing reserved garage spaces based on upperclassman and on or off-campus status, the act pro motes filling garages to capacity during the day, not allowing stu dents to have both a reserved spot and an additional parking permit as well as an elimination of the current garage-space re newal system. If the parking re form act passes in the Student Senate, the bill will be sent to Parking Services Director Derrick Huggins for approval. Police warn of man charged in assault A man who has been charged with kidnapping and assault might have been spotted recent ly on campus, USC Police Department officials said. According to USCPD, Timothy Robert Kearns is free on bond after being arrested for his involvement in an April 2003 incident. Kearns, who is 6 feet 4 inches tall and 250 pounds, is currently awaiting trial, and someone matching his descrip tion has been seen on or near campus property on several recent occasions. Kearns has been advised by the court that he is not to be on Kearns TT„„ . „ USC property. If he is found on campus, he could be arrested for trespassing. USCPD encourages students to be aware of Kearns’ appearance and his vehicle. If , you see Kearns on university property, please notify USCPD by the fastest-available means (777-9111 or utilize a call box). www. daily gamecock .com Nobody covers USC better. • ' ■ I