Blotter: Neighbors Foil Drugstore Hold-Up

The following information was supplied by the police departments in the City of Goose Creek and the City of Hanahan. It does not indicate a conviction.

Neighbors Foil Drugstore Hold-Up

A shoeless bandit made off with $14 in cash from the Remount Road CVS Pharmacy on Saturday. And he may have made a clean break for it, but his failed attempt to hold-up the Walgreens across the street just minutes earlier was witnessed by his neighbors.

Hanahan officers were investigating the scene at the CVS when they got a call that North Charleston Police was working a similar scene at Walgreens.

Ronald Oliver Snipes, 35, of Miami St., allegedly attempted to rob the Walgreens and failed. He then headed over to CVS, where he allegedly stuck his hand in his pocket and suggested to the cashier that he had a gun. According to police, Snipes reached over the counter and pulled cash from the till before fleeing on foot.

Interviewing witnesses at the Walgreens, police found that his neighbors were at the scene and able to provide his address to police. While he wasn't at home, Snipes was later picked up in North Charleston and charged with armed robbery. He allegedly confessed to police, but Snipes said he did not suggest he had a gun.

Hurricane Damage? No, It Was Theft.

An Oak Creek resident contacted police Sept. 20 about damage to her home nearly a month earlier that she had assumed was storm damage, but it turned out to be a burglary.

The woman had left her home Aug. 26 to spend Hurricane Irene's landfall with her parents. When she returned the next day, she found that her gas grill had been thrown through the kitchen's glass door. She also found her laptop in the floor near the front door with a broken screen.

Weeks later, she learned from neighbors that three young men were seen near her home that night. It was at that point that she did an inventory of the house and found that several valuable pieces of jewelry were missing, as well as an XBox 360 and more than two dozen video games.

Love and Marriage. No Humor.

Officers were called to Beverly Hills on Sept. 26 in reference to a domestic dispute. An engaged couple were allegedly trying to shorten their guest list for the wedding when the man made a joke about his fiancee's ex-boyfriend who was on the list.

An argument ensued, but neither resorted to physical violence. When officers arrived, the man's fiancee said she wanted him out of the house, but he refused to go. Officers explained the eviction process and the two went to bed.