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Officers with the Sullivan’s Island Police Department (SIPD) have arrested a 911 caller who – after reporting an alleged crime earlier this week – became the focus of a criminal investigation.
According to booking records, Sean Michael-Emmrich Johnson, from Huger, South Carolina, is charged with felony kidnapping, third-degree assault and battery, impersonating a law enforcement officer, larceny and fraudulent removal or secreting of personal property.
At approximately 10:57 p.m. EST on Friday, January 31, 2025, the 34-year-old turned himself into SIPD following his racist tirade. Some three hours later, he was booked into the Charleston County detention center.

(AI Cannon Detention Center)
According to SIPD chief Monty L. Anders, his agency’s investigation into Johnson was initiated after the Lowcountry resident called 911 on Wednesday (January 29, 2025) to report “a person” driving without a license on the 2500 block of Ion Avenue.
“It was later brought to the police department’s attention of a disturbing video, which has now been released on social media,” noted Anders before Johnson’s arrest. “This video displays possible criminal actions by (Johnson) that were not initially reported to police…”
The now-viral footage shows Johnson confronting at least two Latin American men while waiting for SIPD to arrive. Wearing a ball cap and manic grin, he repeatedly accused the Hispanics of being “illegal Mexicans…” without driver’s licenses.
“I got a big ol’ Mexican right here,” taunted the scrawny man from Huger, leaning into the Latino driver’s pickup truck. “You don’t even speak fucking English, bo. What’s wrong witchu? (SIPD) coming. Yeah. For me? For you!”
Mimicking a Hispanic accent (poorly), Johnson proceeded to rip the driver’s safety goggles off his face and put them on himself — grinning from ear to ear as he reached over to yank his keys from the ignition.

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“You can no park, bo, you no have a license,” sneered Johnson while jingling the keys. “Mhm. You going back! We got the cops coming, bo… It’s over.”
Johnson proceeded to rattle off a series of bizarre, explicit and nonsensical claims. At one point, he mistook the driver for none other than Joaquín “El Chapo” Guzmán, insisting the notorious Sinaloa cartel leader was sitting in front of him.
Johnson then informed the driver that he, himself, was “the owner” of America.
Let the record reflect Guzmán remains incarcerated at ADX Florence in Colorado, roughly 1,720 miles from Sullivan’s Island, South Carolina.
This story may be updated.
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7 comments
Were the two men he was bothering here illegally? If so, was ICE called? If not, why not?
And did the driver have a license?
River, go try this on someone. You’re gna get mopped
Probably just have a Modelo spilled on me.
Ok so the point is? Not against the law to call people names , however its extremely tasteless and crass. If SIPD doesn’t have more than the article says they probably gave this idiot a payday from the insurance reserve fund when he hires a lawyer and sues them
People need to remember that the inept solicitor who will get this case couldn’t even convict Dylan Roof so you think she will even try with this one ? She will dismiss everything
And if one of the two men sitting in the vehicle (.especially the driver) had pulled out a pistol and shot the gentleman verbally assaulting him in the head, would he not have been legally justified under South Carolina’s “castle doctrine”? More likely, the locals would have been screaming about the “violent, illegal immigrants” who had shot/killed “a decent, peaceful American citizen”.