The CEO of a roofing company in Greensboro, N.C., was arrested and jailed in Myrtle Beach, S.C., after being charged with multiple felonies for allegedly threatening to shoot two employees of a candy store who refused to give him a refund on candy.
According to Horry County officials, 36-year-old Joshua Kim, listed as CEO of Old Time Roofing, Inc. on LinkedIn, allegedly engaged in a heated altercation late on Wednesday, August 14, at the Sugar Life Candy store in Myrtle Beach.
Kim reportedly threatened two employees after demanding a refund on a purchase.
When the officers arrived at the scene, employees said a man had argued about returning a certain amount and brand of candy he had purchased at the store earlier. When told Sugar Life did not provide refunds, the man allegedly pulled out a gun and “threatened to kill the two staff members.”
Sugar Life employee Edison Mejia told WMBF-TV that Kim brandished a gun while shouting, “I’m gonna put a chunk in your head if you don’t bring me back my money now,” as first reported by Yes! Weekly, an alt-news publication in the area.
Mejia said the threat was made in front of multiple customers, including several children.
After viewing surveillance video of the altercation, Myrtle Beach police were said to have located and subsequently arrested Kim at a Myrtle Beach resort on Ocean Boulevard.
According to the Horry County website, Kim was booked into the Reuben Long Detention Center the following evening, Thursday, August 15. The website lists him as currently incarcerated. Charges include two counts of “Pointing and Presenting Firearm at a Person,”; “Unlawful Conduct Toward a Child,”; “Possession of Cocaine, First Offense,” and “Simple Possession of Marijuana.”
The Sheriff’s Office website lists a separate $250,000 bond for each of the two firearm charges and the one charge of unlawful conduct towards a child, $7,500 for the cocaine charge, and $615 for the marijuana charge.
Myrtle Beach police also arrested a 35-year-old woman who was in Kim's company. She was charged with cocaine possession and released on a $615 bond. According to WMBF, the cocaine was found in the same truck where Kim and the woman were seen leaving a separate incident with three children in the vehicle.
This isn't Kim's first run-in with the law. According to the website Caselaw, Kim's appeal on a 2020 conviction for "Driving While Intoxicated" from an incident in March 2017 was unsuccessful.
Additionally, a mugshot of Kim from the Raleigh Police Department, related to an arrest in North Carolina in April 2023 on charges of felony possession of cocaine and second-degree trespass, was found on the website wakenc.com, which posts mug shots taken in Wake County, N.C.
Kim’s most recent charges are still pending in Myrtle Beach Municipal Court, Horry County Fifteenth Judicial Circuit, and no court date has been announced as of Thursday morning.
