Mug Shots

The following were taken from actual incident reports filed last week by the City of Charleston Police Department. These are not convictions and the names of businesses, complainants, and suspects have been left off to protect the innocent. All suspects are  innocent until proven guilty, of course.
October 21 | Aggravated assault, firearm
A cooled-down verbal argument between two men, both relatives, on Hillsboro Drive heated up when a third relative ran up and pointed a gun in the face of one of the two men. “You trying to do something to my brother?” yelled the third relative. The man with the gun in his face asked the relative he’d just been arguing with to help him; the relative tried to wrestle away the gun, but ended up getting punched in the face hard enough to knock his glasses off. The man then fled, but told police he was worried about returning to his residence because the relative with the gun knows where he lives.
October 22 | Hit and run
Two cars collided with each other near the intersection of Hwy. 61 and Tobias Gadsden Boulevard. When the two cars pulled over to discuss the incident, one of the cars zoomed off once the other car came to a stop. But the driver of the first car followed in pursuit, and the driver’s daughter snapped a picture of the other car’s license plate.
October 22 | Assisting other agencies
Police responded to a report of an intense verbal argument occurring at a Savannah Highway motel between a man and a woman. When police arrived, both parties claimed it was all over. When asked for identification, the man presented a state driver’s license, but the woman presented a S.C. Offender Identification Card. A records check showed the woman still had an active warrant and was taken to jail.
October 22 | General information
Two women presented themselves at a local hospital in separate attempts to take home an infant whose mother was in jail facing multiple pending charges. One woman carried with her a notarized hand-written note from the jailed mother saying to give her the baby. The hospital contacted the state Department of Social Services, which had already selected a third woman to foster the infant. Neither woman was present by the time police and the foster mother arrived.
October 22 | Shoplifting
The manager of a West Ashley liquor store was speaking with an officer about a shoplifting that took place the day before when an employee informed the two that the woman alleged to have committed the crime was in the store again. The manager and officer confronted the woman, who said she was shoplifting at that moment, and showed them how she had concealed two half-gallons of expensive blended whisky in her child’s stroller, beneath a blanket. The woman was arrested and the father came and retrieved the child.
October 22 | Vandalism
A West Ashley man met a woman and exchanged phone numbers outside of his apartment. Later, the woman came over and the two went to a convenience store for cigarettes and beer. Back at the apartment and in his bedroom, the man went to the bathroom. When he returned, he said he found the woman rifling through his clothes hung in the closet. The man escorted the woman outside the apartment, whereupon she began to bang on the door and yell in an attempt to be let back in. When the man refused, the woman allegedly began beating on his roommate’s car with a folding chair. The man called out to his roommate, an amputee who uses a wheelchair, to call the police before the woman fled on foot.
October 23 | Assisting other agencies
An officer observed a late-model car driving north on Savannah Highway with a missing turn light and driver’s side front door repeatedly swinging open in traffic. When the car was stopped by police in the parking lot of a nearby diner, the passenger in the front seat of the car bolted and ran into a nearby neighborhood. The fleeing man was quickly located, dripping wet as he had fallen in water while running away, and arrested on an active warrant for an unrelated incident.
October 23 | Attempted suicide
A police officer in a cruiser observed the driver of a car come to a complete stop at the intersection of Tobias Gadsden and Glenn McConnell Parkway, despite a clear lane and the light being green. When the officer pulled up to investigate, the driver tore off in the car at a high rate of speed, making for a 526 onramp. When the officer caught up to the man, he had wrecked the car and was climbing out of a passenger window. When asked for an explanation, the man told the officer he had been seriously contemplating suicide, and decided to follow through with a vehicle collision. The man then asked the officer to shoot him.