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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 10 | Aggravated assault
A man was visiting a Brittlebank Lane couple when he and the girlfriend decided to go somewhere in the boyfriend’s car. The boyfriend said he would go, too. The three went outside to the car, the man got into the driver’s seat of the boyfriend’s car, the girlfriend in the passenger’s seat, and then they locked the boyfriend out of his own car. The man repeatedly told the boyfriend to get out of the way, and then pulled out, hitting the boyfriend in the knee with his own car.
March 10 | Harassing phone calls
A woman living in an apartment on Palm Road complained to police that another woman wouldn’t stop sending her threatening messages on Facebook. The responding officer had intervened last year on the other woman, when she was allegedly sending her threatening text messages. The most recent round of messages included calling the woman a “home breaking [redacted],” “Someone is going to beat your ass,” and “I know you are reading this because I just saw your fat ass outside.”
March 10 | Hit and run
A man was driving over the West Ashley drawbridge when a Jetta in the next lane lost control, hit his car, and drove it into the guardrail. When the man got out of his car to check on his girlfriend in the passenger’s seat, the driver of the Jetta jumped out of his car and ran off on foot. Police searched the Jetta, finding a picture of a young couple with names written on the back, and an iPhone that continued to receive messages from a woman caller with the same name as the woman in the photo.
March 11 | Motor vehicle theft
A Savannah Highway car dealership told police that someone had made off with a $93,000 car from its lot the night before. When the car was noticed missing that morning, a check of the key box revealed another car’s fob was hanging from the car’s hook.
March 11 | General information
A police officer responded to a “physical in progress” on Duren Court, where a witness said a man and woman came out of a residence and began beating on another man’s car as he was driving it. The driver exited the car with the aid of a cane, according to the witness, and a fistfight began, during which the woman grabbed the cane and used it to break out the back window of the car. The officer spoke with the driver of the car, who said he wanted the couple to “go to jail on his birthday.” A perimeter was established around the residence.
March 11| Drugs, narcotics violation
An officer stopped a car as it was driving without a license plate in the Byrnes Downs neighborhood. The officer told the driver he could smell marijuana, and the driver said it was “on the floor in the back.” During a search of the car, the officer found $55 worth of what tested as marijuana split up into 10 different bags, as well as two unmarked prescription pill bottles, which contained 37 Oxymorphone tablets and 76 Oxycontin pills.
March 11 | Theft from a motor vehicle
A Lexington woman told police that more than $660 in fraudulent charges appeared on one of her credit cards after her car was serviced at a Savannah Highway car dealership. The woman said she had left the credit card in the car while its windshield was being repaired. The fraudulent charges included a $250 payment at the Charleston Water System, as well as seven charges at one local grocery store for amounts between $5.50 and $110.
March 12 | Robbery, firearm
A woman shopping at a West Ashley Circle superstore was loading her groceries into her car when a man emerged from a Ford Explorer, pointed a handgun at her, demanding she open the door. But the presence of the woman’s daughter in the passenger’s seat seemed to have “spooked” the gunman, who jumped back in the SUV and was driven off by another man.