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.
July 29 | Criminal domestic violence, simple assault
The non-married mother and father of a young child got into a heated exchange punctuated by pushing at his Ashley River Road apartment after they begin arguing about how their 1-year-old son contracted ringworm.
July 29 | Embezzlement
A Savannah Highway retail store manager told police that a silent partner in the business and former employee had been forging his name on close to $45,000 in checks to himself. The manager said a full audit is ongoing of the store’s books, and that some of the money was owed to the silent partner, but the manager hadn’t given his permission to forge his name on checks.
July 29 | Burglary
An Auburn Drive man was awakened in the middle of the night by the loud hissing sound of an air canister being discharged on the first floor of his residence. When he walked downstairs, he saw an unknown man in his living room. He demanded whom the other man was, causing the other man to flee out the door and drive away on a sputtering black moped. A review of his belongings turned up some missing tools, and the resident suspects the intruder had made off with them over several trips.
July 29 | Motor vehicle theft
Police responded with fire personnel to an abandoned Dodge Durango on Ashley River Road that was “fully involved with fire.” A search of the area woods did not turn up a driver. Using traffic records, an owner of the vehicle was found; who said she had no idea the car had been stolen.
July 30 | Simple assault
Police arrested a man wearing khaki shorts and no shirt as he was walking down Sam Rittenberg Boulevard. The man was taken to a nearby fast food restaurant, where he was identified as the man who had attacked an employee without provocation. Workers said the man had been seen talking to himself before attacking the worker with punches and a headlock. The man told police that he had earlier thrown a backpack filled with personal hygiene products on the roof of the restaurant. The man was arrested and placed on a no trespass for the restaurant.
July 30 | Telephone calls obscene and harassing
A pregnant Ashley Hall Road woman told police that she had been receiving threatening phone messages from a woman who had recently started a relationship with the father of the child she was carrying. The other woman was apparently upset when she found out that her boyfriend and the pregnant woman were friends on Facebook. The other woman threatened that she would “cut that baby right out of you,” and that “today will be your last day pregnant.”
July 30 | Criminal domestic violence, simple assault
A Hazelwood Drive woman told police she left a key outside her apartment for her boyfriend before going to bed. At some point that night, the man entered the apartment and jumped on top of her in the bed and began to slap her in the head multiple times. The woman broke free, ran outside, and called 911. The man chased her back inside the apartment, aware that law enforcement had been contacted, and stood over the woman, now curled into a fetal ball, with clenched fists. But he did not striker her again, but was gone when police soon arrived.