HORRY COUNTY, S.C. (WBTW) — It’s been more than a year since a Myrtle Beach man was arrested for a string of burglaries at some of the Grand Strand’s best known locally-owned restaurants and bars.
Samuel Smith is accused of stealing entire safes, some with thousands of dollars inside. But one business told News13 that what Smith stole from them is worth more than all of that money, and they don’t know that they’ll ever get it back.
Bobby Tourney was more than a bartender at the Old Bull and Bush Pub and Eatery in Socastee. He was family.
“There’s no one like Bobby,” co-owner Bobby Cathcart said while laughing. “He was one-of-a-kind, for sure. He had been here eight or nine years, so he was a staple to this bar. Part of the furniture, we like to say.”
But in the spring of 2023, cancer took Tourney from everyone who loved him.
To honor his memory, Cathcart named the original part of the bar after Tourney and placed half his ashes in a safe behind the bar. Three months later, it was stolen. Tourney was gone, again.