Police | Man charged in sexual assault after party

POLICE

HORRY COUNTY

Man charged in sexual assault after party

An Aynor man is charged with sexual assault after a woman told her mother she had been raped by the man while staying in a hotel room, according to a police report.

Rhinelda Tayon Cox, 27, was charged with third-degree criminal sexual conduct and is being held at J. Reuben Long Detention Center on $30,000 bond, according to jail records. Cox was booked into the jail at 8:25 a.m. Wednesday.

Police were called to a home on Fore Road by a 47-year-old woman who told officers her daughter, a 24-year-old Aynor woman, had been raped about 3 a.m. Feb. 5, according to the police report.

The victim told police that she attended a birthday party at a hotel on Feb. 4 and she along with Cox and several other’s including Cox’s fiance, went to a room because they were intoxicated, according to the report. The woman said she remembered Cox rubbing her and then sexually assaulting her before she told him “this wasn’t a good idea and to leave.” The victim said Cox then left the room.

A witness told police that they went back to the hotel room and at some point the victim threw up on herself, according to the report. The witness told police she changed the victim’s clothing while Cox changed the bedding. The witness later passed out and Cox stayed with the victim.

Cox told police he helped clean up after the victim got sick and massaged her, according to the report. Cox told officers he performed oral sex on the victim and when he asked for her to do the same, she refused and told him the leave the room and she wouldn’t discuss the event. Cox told officers the woman did not resist his advances.

Officers are investigating the incident.

MYRTLE BEACH

Homeless man charged with bomb threat

Myrtle Beach police charged a homeless man with making a bomb threat to the police department, according to a police report.

James Thomas McKee, 49, was taken into police custody about 11:30 p.m. Wednesday at the Myrtle Beach Police Department on a charge of bomb threat, conspire to threat, police said.

Officers reported on Saturday numerous unwanted calls were made to the Myrtle Beach Police Department from McKee and involved the threat. Officers arrested McKee at the police department.

MYRTLE BEACH

Man accused of trying to show porn

Myrtle Beach police charged a 48-year-old man Wednesday with providing inappropriate material to a minor after officers learned he tried to make a young boy view a pornographic movie, according to a police report.

Henry Leonard McCray, 48, of Myrtle Beach was charged with obscene/disseminating obscene material to a minor 12 years or younger, according to police.

Officers took McCray into custody about 2:30 p.m. Wednesday at a home in the 1200 block of Dunbar Street, according to an arrest report.

A 21-year-old woman told Myrtle Beach police she left the boy with McCray and he told her McCray tried to make him watch the movie, according to the incident report. The boy said he refused to watch, so McCray took him back home.

The incident occurred on Feb. 6 and was reported on Feb. 8 because the boy’s mother asked the boy’s father to address the issue with McCray, according to the report.

CONWAY

Man charged with attempted murder

Conway police arrested a 21-year-old man in connection with a shooting on Sunday, according to a news release issued Thursday.

Franciosx Edriqou Shepard, 21, of Conway, was charged with attempted murder and discharging a firearm into a dwelling after he turned himself in to police investigators Thursday morning, said Catina Hipp, public information officer.

Shepard is being held at J. Reuben Long Detention Center pending a bond hearing set for Friday in Conway Municipal Court, she said.

The charges stemmed from about 3 a.m. Sunday, when Conway police were called to a home on Woodward Drive for a shooting, Hipp said.

Local

MYRTLE BEACH

Boy Scouts host chief executive scout

A fundraiser dinner featured Bob Mazzuca, chief scout executive of Boy Scouts of America, Thursday night.

Mazzuca made his first trip to Myrtle Beach for the event.

“My message tonight is all about the future, the energy and excitement,” Mazzuca said. “I really believe this is a great time to be in scouting. I also believe it’s never been more important ever, in the history of our country, that scouting delivers what it has delivered for 100 years. We are on a slippery slope and the health of children today is turmoil. We’ve never needed it more.”

He said Boy Scouts teaches kids to be leaders and to give back to their communities.

Barry McDonald, scout executive for the Pee Dee area council, said the dinner is the largest fundraiser for local scouts and generates money for scout activities, recruitment and other day-to-day operations.

Mazzuca said finding revenue to keep scouts alive is all about asking for it.

“It’s a function of asking,” he said.

McDonald said there are as many as 1,100 Boy Scouts in the area that includes Horry and Marion counties. From staff reports