Police return suspect to S.C. in beating of cleaning woman
By: GLENN SMITH
Of The Post and Courier Staff
Originally Published on: 06/18/02
A suspect in the brutal beating of a North Charleston cleaning woman returned to the Palmetto State on Monday after waiving extradition from North Carolina, police said. Hugh Bolin III, 26, of North Charleston, is expected to have a bail hearing today on charges of assault and battery with intent to kill and armed robbery, said Detective Sgt. Ken Hagge. Two North Charleston investigators traveled to Fayetteville, N.C., on Monday morning to retrieve Bolin and escort him to the Charleston County jail. Fayetteville police arrested Bolin on Thursday after a three-day manhunt that stretched from South Carolina to the Canadian border. Bolin, an unemployed salesman, is accused of attacking 37-year-old Carol Armstrong on the night of June 10 outside a Tricom Street medical office building she had been hired to clean. He allegedly beat the married mother of two and then stole her purse and Ford Taurus station wagon. Armstrong was not found until the next morning. She remains in critical condition at a local hospital. When Bolin was stopped Thursday, he was still driving Armstrong's car, police said. Police say Bolin also used Armstrong's credit card at stores along the eastern seaboard during his run. Bolin was held during the weekend in Fayetteville as a fugitive. He appeared briefly before a judge at the Cumberland County (N.C.) courthouse Monday morning and chose not to fight extradition back to South Carolina, Hagge said.
