Crime & Safety
Teen Suspected in Vehicle Break-in near Irmo Arrested
A Columbia teen is charged with breaking into a motor vehicle and tampering with a motor vehicle.

Lexington County Sheriff’s deputies arrested a 19-year-old in connection with a vehicle break-in near Irmo.
Christian Stephen Windom, of Longcreek Drive in Columbia, was charged Friday with breaking into a motor vehicle and tampering with a motor vehicle.
Around 12 p.m. Thursday, deputies responded to a call of a motor vehicle break-in in process outside a home on Ripley Station Road, according a sheriff’s department release. Witnesses provided deputies with a description of the suspect.
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Deputies saw Windom walking near the intersection of Cannondale Road and Cannondale Court, carrying a black canvas Targus zipper bag used to carry a laptop computer, the release said.
The bag contained an Acer Aspire laptop computer worth about $500 that had been reported stolen from the vehicle that was parked outside the Ripley Station Road home.
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Windom was being held Friday at the Lexington County Detention Center while awaiting a bond hearing.
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