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 29 | Disorderly conduct
Police responding to a report of several shots fired at an Ashley River Road apartment complex, confronted a man using a secluded cut-through as a possible escape route. Seemingly inebriated and with a “bulge” in the front of his pants, the man reacted aggressively to police shining a light in his face. “Get that [expletive] light out of my face.” The man especially did not like being searched, telling police not to touch him, at which point he was “escorted to the ground.” The man, who had a pocketknife instead of a gun in his pants, soon apologized to officers for not complying earlier, “I guess the alcohol got the best of me.”
October 29 | Drug, narcotics violation
Police approached a large SUV parked at the Sam Rittenberg Boulevard onramp onto Interstate 526, that was sitting motionless. Upon approach, an officer discovered the driver asleep, the engine running and the footbrake engaged. The officer was able to turn off the engine and take it out of drive and then awaken the driver, who was found to have what appeared to be three grams of cocaine in his pants pocket.
October 29 | Intimidation
A man dropping off a cable at a friend’s West Ashley apartment was confronted by a next-door neighbor, who put a gun in his face. Police interviewed the aggressor, who said he had seen someone in the back of his apartment, and emerged from the front and confronted the man with a silver “tactical” AirSoft pistol, which shoots plastic pellets.
October 29 | Assisting other agencies
A Trailmore Drive woman called police and said she had a wanted man in her trailer. Police discovered the man had two active warrants and approached the trailer. A K-9 officer “challenged said trailer using loud verbal commands.” The man came out peaceably and presented identification that confirmed he was the wanted man.
October 30 | Robbery, firearm
A woman walking into her Sam Rittenberg Boulevard apartment complex said three males confronted her, one brandishing a handgun. She said the three forcefully took her purse and bottle of liquor and then fled on foot.
October 30 |Simple assault
After nine hours of drinking, two roommates nearly came to blows at an Ashley Hall Plantation Road apartment complex. One of the roommates fled the apartment after the other allegedly grabbed her by the neck and yelled at her. The other roommate admitted to having been in some sort of “tuffle” with the other.
October 30 | Threatening calls, obscene, harassing
A man working at a Carriage Lane office reported to police that another man had been harassing him with repeated phone calls and text messages. After the responding officer attempted to contact the alleged harasser to tell him to stop contacting the other man, the alleged harasser apparently assumed that was the other man’s phone number and sent at least 72 different text messages to the officer’s phone. Some of the messages were: “Hey dude! What’s up? Haven’t heard from you in a while. Are you still gay?” The officer attempted once again to call and inform him that he needed to stop, but the messages kept coming, including: “Yes if I ever see you on the streets, I will cut my own [expletive] off and kick your ass so you can’t say a man kicked your ass,”; “I will find you … when do the games begin?”; “Hey, [name redacted], can I get a [expletive]?”; “Did [name redacted] tell you, you [expletive] the wrong guy?”; “I’m gonna zero in on you and find you.”