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 31 | Sexual exposure
An investigator detained a man who was allegedly walking around the store behind the female manager while making sexual gestures at the woman under his shirt. When detained, the man allegedly had his sexual organ out of his pants, hidden in his shirt.
March 31 | Intimidation
Police responded to a Jenkins Road business where its owner claimed a man was attempting to physically intimidate her, demanding $16,000 for work he’d done for her. The owner said the man was not “officially” working for her, that her business did not owe him any money, and that the man had tried to “jump into” her projects. She claimed that the man has told her customers that he is her general contractor, as well as her husband. The man left on foot before police arrived, but in a separate, later incident, an employee claimed to have seen the man inside the locked business. When the woman arrived to let police into the business, the man was not present, but she found her laptop was missing, as well as her client files. Later, she claimed to have received text messages from the man, asking her why she was trying to make him out as a bad person.
March 31 | Burglary, breaking and entering
A woman commuting back and forth to her McClellanville home to mourn with family the death of her father, returned to her Ashley River Road apartment to find her front door had been kicked in. She discovered that her flat screen television was missing, as was some jewelry, and four full bottles of prescription medicine.
April 1 | Vandalism
A handicapped West Chase Drive resident who works from home called police after her car had been “keyed” a third time in her apartment complex’s parking lot. The woman didn’t call the first two times her car had been keyed, but the damage to the car the third and most recent time was quite severe. The woman said she had recently left a note on the window of another resident’s vehicle, asking the owner be more considerate in the future, and to stop consistently parking in her handicapped space.
April 1 | Theft from a building
A rental property owner went to deliver an eviction notice to tenants at a unit he owns and manages on Briarcliff Drive, only to discover they had already moved out. Also missing was the apartment’s stove and refrigerator. Multiple attempts to contact the previous tenant had proven fruitless.
April 1 | Traffic arrest
Police stopped a Silverado pickup truck driving down Savannah Highway because mud had covered the decals on its license plate. A quick check of the license plate turned up it belonged to a Ford Taurus. The driver, unprompted, told the officer the plate was off another car and that his license had been suspended.
April 2 | Simple assault
An officer responded to a call for service at a Savannah Highway convenience store, and when he arrived he found cans and food containers all over the floor, and an employee yelling for him to “check the tape.” The employee said a man became enraged after claiming the employee had shorted him $2 in change for a $10 bill, and threw a drink at him before he attacked the employee. On the tape, the officer saw the incident, and the two men fighting and several patrons splitting the two apart before the man fled on foot.
April 2 | Intimidation
An employee at a Savannah Highway convenience store complained to police that a man had been coming into the store repeatedly of late, threatening, “I’m going to kill all of you,” and “I am going to burn the whole place down.” The man has threatened to kill all the employees in the past.