Police | Conway woman jailed after cocaine found in child’s system

POLICE

CONWAY

Conway child born positive for cocaine

A 27-year-old Conway woman remains jailed after she told police her newborn daughter likely tested positive for drugs because she rubbed cocaine on a sore tooth in the days before giving birth.

Tanya Key Moore Lightsey is charged with unlawful neglect of a child or helpless person by legal custodian and is in custody at J. Reuben Long Detention Center. She is also charged with shoplifting in an unrelated incident. Bail was set at $7,000.

According to a police report, the S.C. Department of Social Services was told on Jan. 7 that a baby born at Grand Strand Region Medical Center “tested positive for cocaine, opiates and benzo.”

Lightsey, the child’s mother, explained the cocaine in her child’s system by saying she rubbed cocaine on her sore tooth to numb it, the report said.

The child was placed in the custody of her aunt.

Police later learned Lightsey gave birth to a child in 2010 that also tested positive for drugs.

MYRTLE BEACH

Chinese restaurant robbed Sunday

Myrtle Beach police are searching for two men who robbed a restaurant Sunday afternoon, according to a police report.

The two suspects entered the China Garden at 3570 N. Gate Road about 2:30 p.m. Sunday, pointed a gun at an employee and demanded all the money from the cash register, police said.

An employee told police she gave the robber some of the money from the register and he took the rest before both suspects ran out of the business.

The suspects took about $400, the report said.

CONWAY

Super Bowl party arguing leads to jail

A Conway man was jailed early Monday in Myrtle Beach on assault charges following an argument with his girlfriend at a Super Bowl party, according to a police report.

Allen Leon Burroughs, 33, was charged with criminal domestic violence of a high and aggravated nature and was served with two bench warrants when he was arrested after Myrtle Beach officers were called about 1:15 a.m. Monday to 1300 Spivey Ave., police said.

Police said the assault charge stemmed from a 30-year-old woman’s report that Burroughs picked her up and slammed her down on the ground, knocking her unconscious, according to the report.

Burroughs told police that while at the party, the woman sat on another man’s lap and he confronted her about it, according to the report.

The couple argued and Burroughs said the woman hit him in the head. Officers said no visible injuries were on Burroughs.

MYRTLE BEACH

Man arrested in Jan. 13 armed robbery

Bond was set at $80,000 for a Georgetown man arrested in connection with an armed robbery in Myrtle Beach last month, according to records at J. Reuben Long Detention Center.

Desmond Shamaine Collins, 29, was charged with armed robbery, possession of a weapon during the commission of a violent crime, two counts of kidnapping, first-offense manufacturing or distributing crack cocaine and simple possession of marijuana, jail records showed.

The robbery charges stemmed from Jan. 13 when Myrtle Beach police said two men entered a store on Highway 15, showed a store employee handguns and demanded money.

Police arrested Jonathan Manigault, 27, last month and he faces charges of armed robbery, two counts of kidnapping and possession of a weapon during the commission of a violent crime.

He is being held on $50,000 bail.

Collins was arrested on Saturday night at 6010 Dick Pond Road.

CONWAY

Conway man shot after home invasion

A man was shot in the chest early Monday after two masked men invaded his home, according to an Horry County police report.

Officers were called at 2:22 a.m. Monday to the home on Sheldon Court for the incident, police said. They found a 33-year-old man who had been shot in the chest.

A 24-year-old woman told police that two men wearing bandanas over their faces came into their bedroom, the victim tried to fight with them and was shot, according to the report.

The man was taken to Grand Strand Regional Medical Center. He is listed in stable condition.

A 34-year-old man was also inside the house at the time of the incident, according to the report. .

BRUNSWICK COUNTY, N.C.

Three charged with trafficking meth

Three men are in jail after a two month investigation by the Brunswick County Sheriff’s Office.

According to a press release, agents with the vice narcotics unit along with members of the U.S. Drug Enforcement Agency seized more than $400,000 in methamphetamines. The press release said police collected more than two kilograms of the drug, the largest seizure in Brunswick County history.

Officers arrested Juan Aguirre-Mojica, 26, and Ruben Aguirre-Damian, 39, both of Ash, N.C., and Miguel Angel Hernandez of Marietta, Ga.

The three are charged with conspiracy to traffic methamphetamines. Bail for Aguirre-Damian and Aguirre-Mojica is set a $1 million. Bail for Hernandez is $500,000.

An investigation continues anyone with information is asked to call the Brunswick County Sheriff’s Office at 910-253-2777 or the Wilmington DEA office at 910-815-4513.

From staff reports