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.
April 14 | All other larceny
A Birthright Street man reported to police that sometime during the night, someone noiselessly stole his trailer loaded with professional lawn care equipment off the back of his truck parked in his driveway. The equipment included a $7,000 riding lawnmower, a $3,800 walk-behind mower, and other machines totaling close to $16,000.
April 14 | Criminal domestic violence, intimidation
A Stinson Drive woman found for the second time in recent weeks her ex-husband hiding in her bedroom closet. Divorced for the past two years, the woman returned to her locked apartment to find the air-conditioning blowing colder than usual, and when she checked her residence, she found him sitting there on the floor of the closet. When asked how he got in, the ex-husband allegedly responded, “maybe some day I will tell you.” The woman was especially concerned, as he alleged had been sentenced for having burned down their house when they were married.
April 14 | Credit card, ATM fraud
Police responded to a West Ashley bank where a woman reported a friend having taken money out of her personal account with her debit card and PIN without permission. The woman claimed the friend, known only to her as “FatChad,” had offered to deposit $300 in her account via the card, which he did, in an effort to help her. But, she alleged, he also immediately took out cash withdrawals to the extent that it overdrew her account by $880.
April 14 | Criminal domestic violence, simple assault
A woman living on Sam Rittenberg Boulevard told police that her ex-boyfriend had assaulted her as she was giving him and his current girlfriend a ride home to West Ashley from a nightclub in North Charleston. The woman said she and her ex-boyfriend, with whom she shares a child, got into an altercation at the club, and she offered to give the couple a ride home. On the way home, the couple began to argue in the backseat, at which point the woman told them to stop arguing in her car. The woman then claimed that her ex-boyfriend grabbed her arm and began to punch her in the side of her head, causing her to stop the car, at which point the couple ran off on foot.
April 15 | Simple assault
A Wedgewood Street woman told police that her live-in adult son had assaulted her after a verbal argument, which caused her to flee the house and lay down in the driveway due to shortness of breath. The woman told police that her son struggles to hold a job and has problems with alcohol. After an argument that night, the woman claimed that her son took her eyeglasses off her head in a “forceful manner,” saying, “You know what, I am going to take these.” In an attempt to deescalate the situation, the woman found another pair of older glasses instead of confronting her son. But when he came into the kitchen, he said, “You know what, I am going to take that, too,” and proceed to tug her purse out of her hands, causing her to fall to the floor. When police arrived, the son, “extremely inebriated,” told officers there had been no physical altercation, and that his mom was “crazy.” Police noticed the man changed his story multiple times when questioning him, and arrested him.
April 16 | Theft from building
A woman who just relocated to a Glenn McConnell Parkway apartment from out of state told police that a family member or one of their friends might have stolen $4,700 in her belongings from a local storage garage. The woman said she paid a few family members and one of their friends to help her unload her belongings from a truck, but that the friend “intentionally” pushed her off the back of the truck, causing her to fracture her leg. After getting released from the hospital, she found her car tampered with and several big-ticket items, like televisions, missing from her storage unit. She spoke with a sister, who allegedly said that she’d “better not pursue charges on my son.” The sister later said her son was a “drug addict.”
April 16 | Family offense, non violent
A physical education teacher at a West Ashley elementary school noticed one of his students was attempting to hide her face behind her long hair. Upon further inspection, the teacher found two “welts” on both sides of the child’s face. Her brother later told school administrators that their father had hit the child in the face “with a spatula” that morning “for being too loud.”