Police Reports

A Lancaster man was charged with driving under the influence after he was involved in a car accident Feb. 19. 

Charles J. Whitt, 45, 2555 Country Club Drive, received the DUI charge shortly after his car flipped along a stretch of West Meeting Street early that morning, said S.C. Highway Patrol Trooper Billy Elder. 

The accident happened at 1 a.m. as Whitt was driving a 2011 Chevrolet two-door vehicle north on West Meeting Street. Elder said the car then drove off the right side of the road, struck an embankment and flipped over. 

According to
Lancaster Police Department
incident reports:
• Officers investigated a report of a woman who allegedly pointed a gun at another woman Dec. 14. Several officers spoke with a 42-year-old woman who said a woman she knew had just pulled a silver gun on her, waved it in her face and then drove away.
Police found the suspect at her Chesterfield Avenue home.  She said the other woman had called her to ask if she was having an affair with her husband.

A bouncer and a women were both attacked at a night spot on Great Falls Highway just over a week ago.
Donald Keith Snipes, 32, 2055 Powell Ave., was charged July 9 with assault, criminal domestic violence and malicious injury to property.
Multiple people told deputies that Snipes attacked his girlfriend and a bouncer at The Spoke Bar and Grill between 11 and 11:30 p.m. that night, according to an incident report from the Lancaster County Sheriff's Office.

The Lancaster County Sheriff’s Office is hoping the public can help find a missing 68-year-old woman.
Lancaster resident Edith Cauthen was reported missing Wednesday by her family, according to a sheriff’s office press release. Her family said Cauthen was last seen walking near her home on Old Lynwood Circle in Lancaster about a month ago.
The family said Cauthen suffers from medical conditions and requires special care.