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.
January 26 | Assisting other agencies
Police arrived at a West Ashley hospital and found a man who presented himself to the emergency room with a gunshot entry wound in his palm and an exit wound in his wrist. The man claimed he had been cleaning a .38-caliber pistol when it went off in his hand. Hospital staff said a “strung out” woman driving a car with New York plates, dropped the man off at the hospital.
January 26 | Forgery, counterfeit
An ice cream truck operator attempted to purchase items from a Sam Rittenberg Boulevard grocery store with a counterfeit $10 bill that was marked, “For Motion Picture Use Only.” The ice cream truck driver assumed one of his customers had given him the fake bill.
January 26 | Theft from a motor vehicle
A man living in an Ashley River Road apartment told police someone had forced open a nonfunctioning window in his truck and made off with $8,000 of his wife’s jewelry. The man had stored his wife’s $7,000 engagement ring and $1,000 wedding band in a black bag resting on the front passenger seat of the truck.
January 26 | Burglary, breaking and entering
Two contractors who kept separate locked trailers at a Raoul Wallenberg Boulevard site said they found their trailers breached and thousands of dollars in tools missing. One contractor reported six missing hammer drills valued at close to $1,700. The second contractor, who later found a missing printer laying in the woods in the rain, reported two more missing hammer drills, valued at $1,600.
January 28 | Simple assault
A worker at a Savannah Highway car wash told police that coworker punched in the mouth as he was talking on the phone because he wouldn’t buy the other man lunch that day.
January 28 | Attempted suicide
An officer reported to an attempted suicide at a Savannah Highway hotel. When he arrived, fire and EMS personnel were already on the scene reviving the victim. A cleaning staffer found the victim lying between two beds with a bottle of Ciroc and three mostly empty bottles of painkillers and prescription medicines. The victim was breathing and then taken to the hospital.
January 28 | Telephone calls harassing, obscene
A woman asked for a police escort to go with her when she picked up her son from her ex-husband’s Royal Palm Boulevard apartment. The father had asked her to come pick up the boy early on his day having him because of a family emergency. When she asked what the emergency, the man allegedly told the woman that she was “not family. You’re a stranger who [expletive] with my son. You better watch your sorry ass.” When the ex-husband saw an officer with the mother, he stated it as just “like you to call the police.”
January 28 | Death investigation
Police responded to a Coosaw Drive birthday party for a 31-year-old man, who had been found submerged and not breathing in a tub. The woman who found him declined to say much without the presence of an attorney.