Horry County Police arrested Adam David Marks, 33, on Sunday and booked him into the county detention center.
A Myrtle Beach police officer has been suspended from the department following his arrest Sunday morning, the authorities said Monday.
Horry County Police arrested Adam David Marks, 33, on Sunday and charged him with a first offense criminal domestic violence charge.
Officers booked Marks into the county detention center at 6:08 a.m, and he was released on a $500 bail at 3:59 p.m. the same day, according to online jail records.
Myrtle Beach Police spokesman Cpt. David Knipes said Marks began his employment with the department in November 1999. Knipes did not know whether Marks was suspended with or without pay.
According to the police report from county police, an officer responded to Marks' house after 911 received an "open line" call. The dispatchers could hear fighting in the background and sent officers.
Once there, the officer said he found Marks and his wife "unbalanced" and described them both as smelling like alcohol.
Marks' wife told the officer the two had gone to a friend's house earlier in the evening, but came home and began arguing.
The woman said she tried to call 911 several times, but said Marks wouldn't let her. She told the officer that Marks struck her several times with a closed fist. The officer said the woman's ear and left eye were blue and purple, and said Marks' lip was cut. Both refused medical treatment.
Marks told the officer that his wife struck herself in the face and caused the argument. He said he was just trying to go to sleep.
The wife told the officer she didn't want her husband to go to jail, but the officer issued Marks a ticket and took him to J. Reuben Long Detention Center.
The couple have been married for eight years, and they have a five-year-old and one-year-old child.
