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Patience, shotgun pay off for twice-robbed laundermat owner
Saturday, June 29, 2002
BY KATHY STEVENS
Of The Post and Courier Staff

MONCKS CORNER-Charlie Williams’ three-week quest to catch a thief
apparently paid off this week when he prevented a suspected burglar from
entering a South Live Oak Drive laundermat.

“I opened the door with my right hand and shoved a shotgun in his face
with my left,”
Williams said Friday. “He begged me not to call police, but I think he
was scared I was going to shoot him.”

Twice this month, thieves broke into C&W Laundromat stealing some $300
from a vending machine. Williams reported the thefts to Moncks Corner
police, but figured they had their hands full.

So he grabbed the Remington and a few sleeping bags from his Pinopolis
home and set up camp on the concrete floor behind a row of dryers and
waited.

Most nights, he meandered to Afterhours, Williams’ members-only
nightclub located behind the laundermat. Just after closing , he would
return to his campsite to bed down for the night.

“I turned on the air conditioning and just stayed there,” he said. “It
was pretty cozy.”

Williams did the same Thursday just after 3 a.m. About an hour after
tucking himself – and the shotgun – into bed, he heard someone at the
front door. He called 911 and walked slowly toward a front window.

Williams watched a masked man dressed in black attempt to pry open the
front door with a screwdriver while dodging headlamps of passing
drivers.

“Every time a car drove by, he’d hide on the side of the building. Then
he’d come back and work on the door.”

Williams planned to confront the burglar when he got inside but
apparently grew impatient and opened the door himself. “His eyes got
real big when I shoved that gun in his face.”

He ordered the man to the floor until authorities arrived.

Moncks Corner police arrested Joshua Scott Raynor, an 18-year-old who
lives about two blocks north of the laundermat. Raynor was arraigned
Friday morning on charges of burglary second-degree and possession of
burglar tools.

According to State Law Enforcement Division records, Raynor’s criminal
record includes grand larceny, receipt of stolen goods and theft of
electrical current. He recently completed an 18-month prison term for an
April 2001 conviction and is on probation. Raynor remains jailed at
Berkeley County Detention Center in lieu of $4,500 bail.

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