Myrtle Beach police arrested a mentally ill woman who had been reported missing in its roundup last weekend of more than a dozen people accused of loitering downtown, the woman’s family says.
Police are accused of targeting the city’s homeless population in the weekend arrests.
Laura Midkiff, 63, is bipolar and schizophrenic. Son-in-law Drew Peal says Midkiff is not fully able to care for herself and lives with her daughter, Peal’s sister-in-law. The family is also trying to get her diagnosed with Alzheimer’s…