Overview
- Authorities say the detective unholstered and pointed his department-issued handgun at a fellow officer in a Myrtle Beach Police Department briefing room during a dispute about microwaved fish.
- The South Carolina Law Enforcement Division charged him Tuesday with pointing and presenting a firearm at a person, a felony that can carry up to five years in prison under state law.
- He was booked into the J. Reuben Long Detention Center and court records show a $5,000 bond and a next hearing set for Aug. 14, though some reports differ on whether he was released without bail.
- The Myrtle Beach Police Department’s Office of Professional Standards found several policy violations and the department announced it has separated his employment.
- Both officers gave statements to investigators and the case will be prosecuted by the local solicitor’s office, with SLED handling the criminal investigation into the use of a service weapon.