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Surprise! Shooting at Downtown Greenville Dive Bar
I actually went to Dixie Tavern once with my wife where I ate a roast beef sandwich which was pretty good. I forget what my wife had but she said it was disgusting. That was at least two or three years ago.
Anyway WSPA is saying that in the wee hours of Sunday morning two patrons got in a “altercation” and one busted a cap in the other. Don’t know much about the place nowadays but I do know the area has a couple of drug dealers who claim it. I also am told that the bar crowd is predominantly douchebags over 25 and hot chicks under 21. A bad combo anyway you play it.
Here’s a video montage of the bar in full swing. Hot chicks and douchebags indeed.
Schools Locked Down After Ambush on Police
It sounds like someone lured police into a area specifically to shoot them. From Fox Carolina:
GREENVILLE, SC (FOX Carolina) – Greenville police swarmed a neighborhood Friday morning after they said someone fired shots at an officer.
The shooting happened about 10 a.m. near Mauldin Road and Cavalier Drive.
Greenville Police Chief Terri Wilfong said an officer tried to pull over a vehicle, but the driver of the vehicle jumped out and fled into a nearby apartment complex.
Wilfong said that when officers went into the apartment complex to look for the driver. They said during that search someone jumped out and started firing shots at the officer. She said the officers conducting the search returned fire.
The person fled the scene, and that was when the massive manhunt began, Wilfong said. She said no one was hurt during the shooting.
Wilfong urged anyone who notices anything suspicious in the area to call 911 immediately. She said a reverse-911 call was placed to the area affected by the manhunt to notify residents of the search.
Greenville County deputies said they are assisting in the search.
The man was described as black, between 30 and 35 years old, wearing gray pants and a gray shirt. He has long hair pulled back into a ponytail. The man was believed to be armed.
The officer was not injured in the shooting.
Here’s a briefing from Terri Nifong:
Be careful out there.
Victimless Crime File: Drug Whore Had Toddler Living in Meth Lab
From the loathsome MSNBC:
A 1-year-old child was removed from a home that had an active methamphetamine lab in it, and the child’s mother was arrested, according to the Greenville County Sheriff’s Office.
Deputies went to the home on Jenkins Bridge Road in Simpsonville to check on the welfare of the baby. The deputies said they found the meth lab in the back room of the house.
The baby was taken into protective custody and turned over to the Department of Social Services.
The baby’s mother, Brandy Nicole Woodside, 21, was charged with unlawful neglect of a child.
Daniel Gryszel, 32, was charged with with manufacturing meth, unlawful manufacture of meth in the presence of a child, and possession of meth. His relationship to Woodside and the child was not immediately clear.
Yeah. Why would a 21-year-old woman with obvious physical signs of drug abuse be living with an older guy who just happens to make meth? I mean who could explain that? Wait … you don’t think people who make meth move young, nubile addicts into their houses and let them pay for their drugs with oral and anal sex do you? Nah! That can’t be it.
David Spring Should Have Been in Jail Already
By now many of you have heard of David Eugene Springs and his run-in with a local S.W.A.T. team. If you haven’t here’s a good summery:
GREENVILLE, S.C. — A man is behind bars in Greenville after being accused of domestic violence and robbing and carjacking a victim before a standoff with SWAT officers.
David Eugene Springs, 40, is charged with criminal domestic violence third degree, burglary second degree, strong armed robbery and grand larceny.
The sheriff’s office says deputies were called to a home on Old Buncombe Road after getting a 911 call about a domestic dispute. The victim said Spring broke into the home and made threats and left before officers arrived.
Deputies were then called to a reported robbery on Poinsett Highway after someone gave Springs a ride. Springs ordered the victim to stop at a Wilco store to take money from an ATM there. Springs got the cash and stole the victim’s Honda Accord.
GCSO investigators tracked Springs down at a home on Appaloosa Drive. Springs wouldn’t leave the home and claimed he had a firearm. The homeowner refused to leave as well.
You probably won’t be surprised to find that this wasn’t his first rodeo. According to public records Springs pled guilty to criminal domestic violence stemming from a 2009 incident, then earlier this year again pled guilty to domestic violence for an incident that happened in 2010.
Then things get tricky.
He pled guilty to stalking on August 23, 2011 for an incident that occurred in May, two days later he had criminal domestic violence charges dismissed which were filed for that same incident. I assume this was a plea deal.
And what did Greenville get in exchange for this plea? Less than two weeks later they need to send a S.W.A.T. team to take him after a crime spree. Nice job. This time we should throw the book at him.