Last Tuesday, May 10, at 11:18 a.m., the appropriately-named Officer Scott T. Luckie (wait for it) responded to a report of “a possible assault with a rake” on the 800 block of South Rose Street in South Park. The police report states that the call came from a woman who had been attacked in her home by a man “in the quest for marijuana.”
According to the police report, the woman explained that the suspect—who was either a friend or an acquaintance—had been by earlier, at which time he’d given her $30 to get some pot from one of her friends. Alas, the man’s quest was foiled by circumstance: When he later returned for the pot, the woman explained that her pot-having friend wasn’t home, and returned his money.
At this point, the woman says the man started yelling at her, saying that she owed him more money.
The report states that the man “started calling her ‘fucking bitch,'” and “grabbed her screen door, causing the screen to be ripped, then grabbed a hand-held rake and threw it at her, striking her in the hip.” Furthermore, the victim stated that she heard the suspect vow to kill her as he rode away on his motorcycle.
The victim was uninjured from the alleged man-child tantrum. When Luckie offered to take her to a safe shelter in light of the alleged death threat, she declined, stating that “she had errands to run.”
Luckie then went in search of—and found—the alleged pot-loving, death-threatening suspect. Unsurprisingly, he told a different story: He initially went over to the woman’s house to collect $10 she owed him. But when he asked for the money, the woman started yelling at him, prompting him to yell back because he wanted his money. The suspect stressed that “he never threatened her, touched her, threw any objects at her, or threatened to kill her,” and, “it was not about marijuana or any other drugs.”
Luckie reports that he dutifully “told both parties how to obtain a court order if they felt threatened by the other party.”
A rake’s progress.