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.
November 5 | Disorderly conduct
A mother, worried that the estranged father of their childmay try and leave the state with their young child, asked police to perform a welfare check at his Melrose-area home. When police arrived, there was a car in the yard, but all the lights were off in the house. After repeated knocking and announcing their presence at the front door, police noticed the man sneaking out the back door and jumping over several neighbors’ fences to evade arrest by running into the nearby woods. A police dog tracked the man into the woods and he was arrested. When police returned to the house, the man refused to say where the child was. Doing a check of the house, officers discovered an unlocked door and performed a safety sweep inside. There they found the man’s mother and father barricaded in the master bedroom, with the child in the closet.
November 5 | Theft from building
Video from a Sam Rittenberg Boulevard store showed a woman shopping for purses being approached by a man while another man snuck up behind her and stole her wallet out of her purse. The woman said the man had poised as a boyfriend with questions about a gift for his girlfriend. When the woman went to the register to pay, she noticed her $300 wallet was missing, which contained several credit cards and several hundred dollars in cash, and various forms of identification. Video showed the two men exiting at the same time, but heading in different directions. Thirty minutes after first reporting the missing wallet to police, the woman called back to say that her credit cards had already been used at two high-end electronics stores. She was told to cancel all of her cards.
November 5 | Found property
A construction worker working at an Ashley River Road store found two suspicious black pouches hidden in the ceiling. Upon opening, the worker’s boss discovered seven used needles and syringes, a small scale, a glass pipe, a pipe cleaner, a small bottle with an orange liquid inside, a round pill with “777” printed on the side, and several small plastic baggies. The baggies had various pictures and words printed on them, including “Smoke and Fly.”
November 6 | Aggravated assault
Police responded to a West Ashley restaurant after a man called saying that his girlfriend struck him in the face with a glass bottle while he was putting her and her belongings out of his car in the parking lot. When police arrived, witnesses said the woman was walking to a nearby medical facility with a baby in her arms and carrying a car seat. Police soon found the woman, who had blood coming out of her nose, a knot on her forehead, and some fake hair torn out of place, getting a ride home in another car. The woman refused to cooperate, saying she just wanted to go home. Police persuaded her to return to the hospital to have a family member pick her up. While being tended to, an officer heard her tell a nurse she had lost consciousness while the boyfriend had punched, kicked, and kneed her. After police were able to get the boyfriend’s name and contact information from her, they called him on the phone, and were told he was on the way to the facility with his mother and wanted to file a complaint against the woman. Nurses informed officers that the woman had suffered a severely fractured nose and would be kept overnight.
November 6 | Drugs violation
During a routine traffic stop of a car traveling down Sam Rittenberg Boulevard, an officer alerted on the smell of marijuana emanating from the vehicle. The driver consented to a search of the car, whereupon he discovered three, 3-gram baggies of what appeared to be marijuana and 16 Oxycodone pills, and a small pistol. “It’s all mine, he has nothing to do with it,” said the driver spontaneously.
November 6 | Aggravated assault
A woman behind the wheel of a large pickup hemmed in by parked cars at a Savannah Highway tire store began yelling and cursing obscenities at customers and workers. When employees walked over to tell the woman that the driver of the cars blocking her had been contacted and “trying to reason with the female,” the woman reportedly put the truck in drive and hit one of the employees and roared off, striking the employees in the midsection and knee. The employee declined EMS care, but said he would get checked out at the hospital in the morning. The woman later returned to the scene at the police’s request to tell her side of the story, and was arrested for assault and batter in the first degree.
November 6 | Injured party
Police responded along with EMS to a Proximity Drive apartment where a man claimed his roommate was breathing but unconscious in the bathroom. Police found the man’s roommate on the floor with a syringe with red liquid in it and a folded piece of black wax paper nearby. The roommate had apparently overdosed. Police discovered the roomate had just gotten out of rehab after calling his mother. The man was transported to the hospital.