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 23 | Trespassing
An Ashley Crossing Drive woman called police after her ex-boyfriend opened her front door with a borrowed key, pushed through a “makeshift” barricade, and refused to leave her apartment. The relationship had ended badly, according to the woman, and the man wouldn’t stop trying to contact her. The woman said her “ex” told her to call police, that he was trespassing, and wanted to go to jail. When police arrived, the man was calm and compliant, saying he’d come over because he had no place left to go, and that he’d been living out of his car for several nights.
March 24 | Impersonation
A Sandhurst Drive man came to the police station and asked for a police report, after showing evidence of over $500,000 in unauthorized loans and accounts having been taken out in his name since October. The man said he first found out about the existence of 10 separate accounts in October when he received a fraud alert from a cellphone company.
March 24 | Criminal domestic violence, simple assault
A woman living with a man at a Brigadoon Place reidence told police that the man had punched her in the stomach while holding a screwdriver in his hand. The woman said she had confronted her boyfriend in the garage where he was smoking, despite suffering from several medical conditions that doctors have told him he could no longer smoke. Later, she found him sitting up in bed, watching television, when he allegedly grabbed her by the arm and threw her onto the bed. Police found bruising consistent with the attacks she described.
March 24 | Impersonation
A Ponce de Leon Avenue couple reported that someone had filed tax returns in their names, but not with their permission. The federal IRS, who informed the couple about the attempted fraud, stopped the returns.
March 25 | Vandalism
A Camelot Drive homeowner reported nearly $20,000 in water damage to a house under construction there. Apparently, the water pipes leading to several rooms in the upstairs and main floor of the house had been cut, and water was flooding the home. When the homeowner arrived, water was pouring out from under the garage and front doors, and the garage ceiling had already collapsed. The homeowner suspects a subcontractor he had fired in the recent past of having cut the lines.
March 25 | LEWD ACT WITH A MINOR
A West Ashley woman reported that her 12-year-old niece had been receiving “lewd” texts from a 17-year-old male. The investigation continues.
March 25 | Drug arrest
Police arrested two teen brothers at a Savannah Highway motel after what was reported to be a meth lab explosion in their room. The brothers took shelter in the room of a woman who had lived in the motel for the past two years, and were soon joined by their mother, wearing only underwear and a shirt. The lodger in the room next to the boy’s room reported hearing a loud explosion and something smashing into the rooms’ shared wall, and hearing someone exclaim, “Don’t call the cops,” when he exited the room, prompting him to immediately call 911. Another witness said she saw a couple from an adjoining room fleeing in an “hysterical manner” after a loud explosion, one of them saying, “I think a meth lab just blew up.”