Burton man arrested, charged with aiming assault rifle at 2 men outside hotel, police say
A Burton man was arrested Friday after claims that he pointed an “AK-47 type rifle” at two men in the parking lot of Beaufort’s Comfort Suites hotel.
Marvin Huggins, 34, has been charged with first-degree assault and battery, assault and battery of a high and aggravated nature, unlawful carrying of a pistol and two counts of pointing and presenting a firearm.
According to a report from Beaufort Police Department, Officer Edgar Snyder responded to a weapons report at the Comfort Suites on Big John Road shortly before 11 p.m. Thursday.
Two men there told Snyder that a man pointed an AK-47 at them and had driven to the other side of the hotel.
According to the report, hotel security footage “clearly” showed Huggins “approaching the victims’ vehicle, backing his silver in color Cadillac up, and walking back to the victims’ vehicle with an AK-47 type rifle, then pointing the rifle at the victims as they left the parking lot of the hotel.”
Snyder found Huggins outside of the hotel making a phone call and arrested him, pointing a taser at Huggins after he tried to enter the hotel instead of following commands to move toward the front of his car and show his hands.
He was booked into the Beaufort County Detention Center around 1 a.m. Friday and was released Monday on a $25,000 surety bond.