Police: Woman Alleges Intimidation, Threats from Landlord

Mauldin Police are investigating an incident in which a woman alleged her landlord threatened her life over a broken lease and unpaid utility bill, a police report said.

The 47-year-old tenant told police that her landlord showed up at her residence on Mapleton Drive on Sunday yelling and screaming at her because he was mad that the woman planned to break a lease she had signed in March and also wanted immediate payment on an utility bill she claimed she still had time to pay, the report said.

The landlord, whom the tenant alleged was intoxicated, was alleged to have "put his finger close to her nose and threatened to kill her, and told her that she was going to burn in hell, while he continually cussed and yelled at her," the report stated.

The tenant also alleged that several days earlier her landlord improperly entered her residence while her daughter was home alone, the report said.

The landlord, contacted later by police by phone, said the pair were mutually yelling at one another, but that he never threatened her and did not try to enter the residence, the report said.

The landlord alleged that the tenant was two months behind in her rent and owed more than $600 in back utilities. He said the tenant told him that she would be out over the weekend and that he only came by the residence to make sure she was gone, the report said. The case remains under investigation.