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.
March 3 | Motor vehicle theft
A man and his friend abandoned his pickup truck along Ashley River Road at 4 a.m. after it developed a flat left rear tire. When he returned 15 hours later, the truck was missing. The man told police he couldn’t remember if he locked it. Police later found it a nearby apartment parking lot with severe left rear tire damage.
March 3 | Drug, narcotics violation
An officer patrolling the Shadowmoss neighborhood in the wake of recent car break-ins, came across three men in a parked car in the wee hours of the night. The men got out of the car and said they knew about the break-ins. The officer noticed the men acting nervous and smelling of marijuana. Once the officer approached their car, he noticed the engine was still running, the keys in the ignition, and the doors locked. He also reported seeing what appeared a substantial line of cocaine on the dash of the car. The father of one of the three men came out of his nearby house and told the officer the back window of the car could be pushed down. Once inside the car, the officer field-tested the suspected substance and it tested positive for cocaine, weighing about three-quarters of a gram of cocaine. He also found a similar amount of suspected cocaine on one of the three men.
March 4 | Flim-flam
A West Ashley dentist reported being contacted by phone by a man claiming to be an employee of SCE&G who claimed he was nearly $1,000 behind in payments. The dentist asked what to do and was told to purchase reloadable debit cards for the amount and to send the numbers to a separate number. The dentist did so, but then checked his own records, saw there was nothing wrong, and had the payments cancelled to what turned out to be a bogus call.
March 4 | Bank robbery
A man entered a Sumar Street bank branch brandishing a pistol and demanded a teller give him cash. The teller emptied an undisclosed amount of cash from her drawer and handed it to the man, who then ran out the door and jumped into a waiting silver Dodge Charger and fled.
March 4 | Vandalism
A Sequoia Street woman heard a disturbance at her back door the night before and went to investigate, scaring off whoever had been there. The next day as she was preparing to hang laundry, the woman looked at her back door, which had a key broken off in it so it wouldn’t open. Once outside, the woman noted someone had etched the phrase “Bitch E.” into the door.
March 5 | General information
Police responded to a West Ashley public school after a student was heard threatening a teacher who was about to give the student a behavioral referral. A search of the student’s backpack yielded a series of notes that included: “Dead to me,” “Wait till the end of school. That is not a threat, it’s a promise.” Some of the notes got even darker, including: “I hate all humans and I want to kill all 3 of the people that is on my bua list.”
March 5 | Trespassing
Police responded to a burglar alarm at a West Ashley middle school. When they arrived they saw two men running out of one of the buildings. The men said they were “inebriated and embarrassed.” They claimed they were walking by the school and heard someone screaming inside the school and found an open window in the cafeteria and climbed in. The men claimed they ran through the halls but touched nothing.