Blue Light Special | Myrtle Beach funeral home fight tops weird news of the week
Subway: Eat fresh, drive safe
In an understated metaphor for waiting in lines at the popular sandwich shop, an SUV ran into a Subway attached to a Shell gas station in Conway Saturday afternoon. Subway plans to use the incident as a marketing ploy after a marketing spokesman stated: “This is why you should ALWAYS take the Subway *wink wink* Eat fresh.” The spokesman was arrested soon after for making that joke.
Conway Fire responded to the scene on Highway 544 around 4:45 p.m. Fire crews on scene said there is no structural damage to the building,
More updates will be provided when available.
Fight ends in knockout, funeral
The MMA craze has spread all over the country; gyms, bars, and now: a funeral home. One woman was arrested and one man was taken to the hospital after a fight broke out in a Myrtle Beach funeral home Saturday. One thing is abundantly clear, at least one person most definitely followed the first and most important rule fight club: You do NOT talk about fight club.
Myrtle Beach police officers responded to Ocean View Funeral Home & Cremation Services, LLC, at 1212 Carver Street in reference to a fight in progress around 3:15 p.m.
A witness told police Corey Caradell Bellamy, 23, started to throw chairs and was being “very loud” during a funeral service. Also, his entrance music sucked. Bellamy told officers he did not agree with his family’s final plans for his loved one and he did the only rational thing to do in that situation, and started yelling and punching people in the neck.
Bellamy told the responding officer he had a bad heart and was having trouble breathing so the officer asked for an ambulance to be dispatched. A victim asked the officer to arrest Bellamy – a request that spurred another mourner, 26-year-old Jasmine Shante Chaney to push the victim, according to the report. Ya’ll are going to make them lose their mind. Up in here. Up in ... nevermind.
Chaney was charged with third-degree assault and battery and was transported to the Myrtle Beach Jail. Bellamy was transported by EMS to Grand Strand Regional Medical Center for an evaluation. Tyler Durden is still unaccounted for.
$9,000 of merchandise disappears “up in smoke” from Myrtle Beach smoke shop
Police are looking for burglars who stole thousands of dollars worth of “glass art pieces” from a Myrtle Beach smoke shop earlier this month. The most shocking aspect of this? That a smoke shop housed thousands of dollars of something.
Myrtle Beach Police responded to Purple Haze Smoke Shop on Seaboard Street, a nice place for families, on Jan. 9 and found signs that the suspect first tried to break the front door’s lock, then knocked out the glass, according to the police report.
Officers said that it seemed like the suspect went straight to the high-priced glass work in the back cabinet, “almost as if the suspect knew what he/she was looking for once inside,” the report states.
Officers checked for security camera footage, but it was found that power had been cut off to the entire store before the burglar or burglars made entry. The last time the camera had recorded was at 4:21 a.m. Oh COME ON, ONE MINUTE off. That would have made this whole thing worth it. Amateurs.
After inventory was taken, it was determined that over $9,000 worth of items were taken from the business, including several large glass pieces that were worth hundreds of dollars each. Some of the items reported stolen include: a “Salt/Mermonkey” pipe worth $2,100, a “TMNT” rig worth $500, a “Ghost Skull” rig worth $3,000, and “Zach P” rig worth $1,800, and probably hundreds of dollars in Criss Angel T-shirts and Magic: The Gathering cards.
Myrtle Beach Police posted several photos of subjects wanted in connection with the burglary, as well as a Toyota Rav 4 that may also be involved. Police also posted images of two of the glass water pipes that were taken.
Anyone who knows the identities of the subjects, or the whereabouts of the stolen glass work or is a fan of Criss Angel is asked to contact MBPD and reference case #16-000470.
Blue Light Special is a roundup of the Myrtle Beach area’s weird and wild crime, written with a saracastic and/or humorous twist. It is meant as a parody. Don’t take it too seriously; we don’t.
This story was originally published January 27, 2016 at 12:00 AM with the headline "Blue Light Special | Myrtle Beach funeral home fight tops weird news of the week."