Suspected huffer claims paint was used to catch devil worshippers sexually assaulting his mouth

When 32-year-old Carl McGuirt IV from Charleston, South Carolina was arrested on charges of huffing spray-paint, he denied the accusation and told police officers that he was trying to use the paint to catch the “devil worshippers” trying to sexually assault him.

At about 1:45am on. Sunday, officers from the Charleston Police Department were patrolling a marshy area when they reported hearing loud sounds. The officers checked out a stand of trees, where they said they saw McGuirt clutching a 4-inch knife, spinning in circles and talking to himself. McGuirt dropped the knife when the police asked him to, and the officers handcuffed the disoriented man. That’s when the police started smelling the spray-paint.

 

They noticed the gold paint covering portions of McGuirt’s mouth, face, hands, clothes, arms and feet. The officers found three paint cans, each with a hole punched in the side, on the ground. While the police ushered McGuirt from the woods, they said he talked about how he would spray paint on a rag, then cover his mouth with the cloth. But he wasn’t using the paint to get high, he argued; he was using it for “evidentiary value.”

“He stated that he sprays the gold paint and places the rag on his mouth,” the police report stated. “When the devil worshippers come after him and try to orally sexually assault him, the paint gets on their genitals, and he can use that information to prosecute them.” McGuirt has a lengthy arrest history that indicates his struggles with the abuse of such substances. In the past six years, he has been arrested and later convicted on five glue-sniffing charges. McGuirt has a court date on Friday facing a charge of sniffing aromatic hydrocarbons.