(AP) -- Authorities say a 47-year-old man who identified himself as an Occupy Columbia protester was arrested for urinating near a monument on Statehouse grounds.
The arrest Wednesday night for disorderly conduct offered the first evidence of what Gov. Nikki Haley has been complaining about for weeks without proof. Public records requests for complaints, reports or video have previously produced nothing.
A police report says Toby Wood of Columbia was arrested about 10 p.m. after an officer saw him urinate in the grass near the Veterans Monument. The report says Wood told the officer he had consumed two beers.
Wood has no listed phone number.
Protesters have denied Haley's accusations they've used bushes as toilets. The report's release comes as a federal judge validated a new rule banning camping on Statehouse grounds.
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