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.
February 2 | Theft from building
A manager at a Savannah Highway motel reported to police that nine, 37-inch televisions had been stolen from rooms undergoing renovations. The televisions were worth a total value of over $4,500. The manager reported that electronic records showed that one employee’s access cards was used to enter the rooms during a critical time.
February 3 | Criminal domestic violence, intimidation
A Clay Lane woman with a serious auto-immune disease said that after she asked her husband to make her breakfast, he stated he wanted her shot and removed from the house. The woman also claimed her husband had limited her access to shared funds, making it so she couldn’t go to physical therapy for her condition.
February 4 | Flim-flam
An elderly woman shopping at a Sam Rittenberg Boulevard grocery store said two men approached her, claiming to have found a paper bag containing $68,000 in cash. They told the woman they would split the money with her if she would deposit the money in her bank account for three months without withdrawing it. They asked her to remove $1,000 from her bank account and entrust it with them while they used the “cash counter” in the grocery to ensure the money wasn’t counterfeit. The two men, and the woman’s money, never returned.
February 4 | Simple assault
A woman being driven to work by an older male friend, said the man pulled his call over, forced her out of the car, and then pushed her to the ground and began punching her in the shoulder. The reason for the assault, said the woman, was that she refused to “unblock” the man from her online Facebook account.
February 4 | Drug violation
A resource officer at a West Ashley school noticed a hand-off between two students that looked like a drug sale. The officer stopped and interviewed one of the students before entering his next class. The student agreed to talk without a lawyer or his parents present, and admitted to having purchased three Xanax pills from the other student for $20. An administrative search of the other student found he was carrying $877 in cash.
February 4 | Weapons law violation
An officer viewed a car speeding down Savannah Highway and began to follow it. The car soon ducked into a neighborhood and roared back in the opposite direction, eventually being stopped at a fried chicken fast-food restaurant. The officer noticed the smell of marijuana, and asked the driver to get out of the car. As the driver was exiting the car, the officer noticed on the floor of the car what turned out to be a fully loaded .32- caliber revolver.
February 5 | Drug violation
Police responded to a Sam Rittenberg business where a man had just exited, stumbling with an infant in a stroller. The slow-walking, speech-slurring man initially denied having done any drugs, but soon admitted to having taken some Xanax that was not prescribed to him. His wife, the mother of the child came to the scene and took the infant home, and police took the man to jail.
February 5 | Drug violation
Police spied a threesome parked in the back lot of a Savannah Highway motel, in an area known for drug sales. After smelling marijuana, the officer searched the car and discovered $5 and $10 amounts in what was presumed to be marijuana and cocaine base, respectively. The officer also found a loaded 9-mm pistol, with one bullet already in the chamber and 15 bullets in its magazine.