Every workplace has its little pressure points. In most places, it’s a loud phone call, a messy desk, or somebody nuking last night’s leftovers in the breakroom. But a briefing room in Myrtle Beach reportedly went from “annoying smell” to “felony charge” in a hurry, as laid out in the source post summarizing an arrest warrant and agency statements.
According to authorities, a now-former Myrtle Beach Police Department detective is accused of drawing his department-issued handgun and pointing it at another officer during an argument sparked by fish being warmed up in a microwave. The outcome wasn’t a write-up or a forced apology. It was an arrest, a bond hearing, and a job loss.
It started with a microwave and an office smell
The arrest warrant says the confrontation happened Saturday in a briefing room at the Myrtle Beach Police Department. One officer was “warming up fish in the microwave,” and the warrant notes it caused an odor in the office.
Most of us have been in a similar situation—maybe at a deer camp cabin or a small-town shop—where one bad food choice takes over the whole building. But this one didn’t end with somebody cracking a window. The warrant says the detective confronted the other officer over it.
The moment it crossed the line
From there, the allegation gets serious fast. Authorities say the detective, Michael Debiase, 46, drew and pointed his department-issued handgun at the other officer during the confrontation…