MYRTLE BEACH - Many homeless people look for a new place to sleep after Horry County police arrested several of them at a homeless camp Tuesday afternoon.
Last week police asked a group of homeless people to leave an area of private property off Robert Grissom Parkway in Myrtle Beach.
Police told the homeless if they weren’t out by Tuesday they’d get arrested.
One side of the homeless encampment packed up Tuesday morning to move.
Where they were going – not even they knew that.
Scott Barnes and Arnold Laws, who are both homeless, stood by an Occupy Myrtle Beach member along Robert Grissom with signs that said “The Homeless Are Human too”..
Meanwhile the opposite side of the camp wasn't going to leave the private property unless they were forced out.
"[I’ll] go to jail,” said Danny Jordan when asked what he’d do if police came to the camp. “[I’d] spend the night in jail, get a trespassing charge, get out tomorrow, find another batch of woods."
Minutes later Jordan and six others were arrested by Horry County Police.
After News 13 moved its news car to a location not easily visible from the street, police showed up again, but the camp was empty.
"I think Horry County should make provisions to set aside some land and have tents put up so that these people will have some place to stay,” said Joe Garrell, the landowner’s agent.
“I think we're considered an eyesore to humanity,” Barnes said.
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