Police | Woman charged after car rammed

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HORRY COUNTY

Woman charged after car rammed

A Little River woman was arrested Sunday on charges she used her car to hit another woman’s car in which her former boyfriend and his girlfriend were riding, according to a police report.

Lauren Ashley Lumpkin, 21, of Little River was charged with two counts of first-degree assault and battery, criminal domestic violence of a high and aggravated nature, hit and run with property damage and unlawful carrying of a pistol, according to records at J. Reuben Long Detention Center. Lumpkin is being held on $75,000 bail.

The charges stemmed from 6 p.m. Nov. 8 when a 24-year-old man and a man and woman, both 46, were riding in the older woman’s car along Sea Mountain Highway, according to the report. The woman told police a sport utility vehicle got in front of her car and the driver put the vehicle in reverse and rammed her car three times.

The woman said the SUV driver then drove away, but that she recognized the driver as Lumpkin, according to the report. The 46-year-old man told police that he had dated Lumpkin, but they broke up about a year ago.

The man said Lumpkin had harassed him and his new girlfriend.

The man was treated for minor injuries and released from Seacoast Medical Center. At the time of the incident, police tried to find Lumpkin, but were not successful.

CONWAY

Recent robberies investigated in Conway

Conway police are searching for information regarding two armed robberies that occurred last week in the city, according to a news release.

Officers were called at 7 p.m. Nov. 22 to the Hugo Citgo store at to 2776 U.S. 501 for an armed robbery, said Catina Hipp, spokeswoman.

An employee told police that two people came into the store and one person selected several items to be purchased and went to the register to pay while the other person distracted the clerk by asking for assistance locating an item.

The suspect at the counter threatened to kill the clerk and the other man ran behind the counter and took money from the cash register, Hipp said.

At 1 p.m. on Thursday officers were called to the Walgreen’s at 1601 Church St., for an armed robbery where a woman reportedly used a gun and gave a note to clerk demanding that prescription drugs be placed into a bag or she would shoot someone, Hipp said.

The woman left the store and got in a green full size Chevrolet or GMC Sport Utility Vehicle driven by a man, Hipp said. No injuries were reported.

Anyone with information about the robberies can call Conway police at 248-1790.

MYRTLE BEACH

Loris woman facing shoplifting charges

A Loris woman was charged with shoplifting after Myrtle Beach police were called to Wal-Mart late Sunday, according to a police report.

Jamie Lynn Anderson, 19, was charged with shoplifting with a value of $2,000 or less after officers responded to the store at 541 Seaboard St., at 6:20 p.m. Sunday, police said.

A loss prevention employee told police that he stopped Anderson after seeing video surveillance of the woman with two fitted baseball hats and four cell phones and those items concealed in her purse, according to the report. Anderson went into the restroom and was stopped by employees when she tried to leave the building.

The items, valued at $519.99, were recovered from Anderson’s purse, but the phones had been removed from the packaging, according to the report. Anderson told police she took the items to resell them for money.

HORRY COUNTY

Firefighters battle blaze in Nichols area

Horry County Fire Rescue was dispatched Monday evening to a fire at a single-family home on Highway 19 in the Nichols area, said Leslie Yancey, fire rescue spokeswoman.

She said the fire was reported around 6:25 p.m. no one was home at the time of the fire, and no injuries were reported.

The blaze was contained by about 8 p.m., she said.

No other information was available.

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LITTLE RIVER

Mothers plan children’s Christmas party

The Grand Strand Blue Star Mothers invites the children of National Guard, reserve and active duty military, and the children and grandchildren of veterans to a Christmas party being held Sunday.

The party will be from 1 to 3 p.m. at the Veterans of Foreign Wars on Highway 57 in Little River.

There will be music, games, crafts, gifts and refreshments.

To register your child, please call Anne Parker at 390-5639.

From staff reports