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Two South Carolina Men Charged for Forcing Alligator to Drink Beer
Two South Carolina men each face a harassment charge after pictures surfaced on social media showing them pouring beer down the throat of an alligator, authorities saidJoseph Andrew Floyd Jr., 20, and Zachary Lloyd Brown, 21, both of Ridgeland, are accused of harassing wildlife, the state’s Department of Natural Resources said in a news release.
The incident took place on Wednesday in Jasper County, located in the coastal region in the southernmost part of the state.
The men admitted to investigators that they picked up the juvenile alligator after they saw it crossing a road, forced beer down its throat and watched it swim away in a nearby pond, according to the release.
Pictures posted on social media alerted officials the next day.
“We started receiving a lot of e-mails and phone calls about this. People had taken screen shots from Snapchat accounts,” the agency’s spokeswoman Kyndel McConchie told CNN.
In one of the six photos obtained by CNN from authorities, the alligator’s neck is being squeezed and a beer can is pressed against its snout. The text on the photo says “Gator Shotgun.”
Other photos show beer being dripped into its mouth while its neck is held tightly. Another picture shows smoke being blown onto the face of the gator.
Besides the state misdemeanor charge of harassing wildlife, Floyd and Brown also face a maximum fine of $300.
There is federal protection in place to ensure alligators are legally harvested for international trade. But for a case like this, no federal protection applies, the Department of Natural Resources said.
“Alligators are protected under state law and even federal law where they are still listed as threatened solely due to their similarity of appearance to other endangered crocodilians worldwide,” SCDNR Alligator Program Coordinator Jay Butfiloski added.
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South Carolina mom beats 6-year-old son for making grandma Mother’s Day card instead of her
A South Carolina woman beat her 6-year-old son after he made a Mother’s Day card for his grandmother and not one for her, cops said.
Shontrell Murphy, 30, was charged with cruelty to children after admitting she hit him, local Fox affiliate WBRC reported.
Cops were called to her mother’s house in Spartanburg Thursday where they found the grandmother with Murphy’s daughter and bawling son.
The daughter told cops that Murphy found the card and fumed when she realized it wasn’t for her, WBRC reported.
Murphy started ripping up the card, her daughter told cops, then hit her son several times on the head.
Cops found shards of the handwritten card on the floor, the news channel reported.
Murphy’s children told police their mom violently hit them on a regular basis and lived in fear of her.
Cops said Murphy told them she did hit her kids, but argued she “does not believe it was in a hard or violent manner.”
The boy was later transported to the hospital for evaluation and later released
Mother tried to poison daughter who has Down syndrome
An Upstate mother is accused of trying to murder her daughter who has Down syndrome by poisoning her with medication.
Pamela Ann Contreras, 68, of Spartanburg, has been charged with attempted murder and abuse of a vulnerable adult. Contreras put prescription drugs in her daughter’s drink in an attempt to kill her, according to arrest warrants.
A police officer responded to an attempted suicide on Dec. 7.
The officer arrived to Contreras’ apartment and found her daughter in the kitchen holding a glass of orange liquid with a powdery substance along the edge, according to an incident report.
The officer took the drink from the victim, who would not speak. Contreras later told the officer that her daughter does not talk.
Contreras said she used a pill grinder to grind up medication that she placed in her daughter’s drink. She then planned to stab her to death when she passed out, the report states.
Contreras told the officer that she feared no one would care for her daughter after she died. She claimed she also drank a similar mixture, but an officer noted in the report that Contreras’ glass was mostly full, while her daughter’s large glass only had around two inches of liquid left in the bottom.
Both women were taken to the hospital for treatment.
Contreras was booked into the Spartanburg County Detention Center on Tuesday.