Mug Shots

The following were taken from actual incident reports filed last week by the City of Charleston’s 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.
June 11
Injured party
A man nearly drowned in front of his family at an Ashley Hall Plantation apartment complex pool. One of the residents was swimming at the pool and noticed the man floating in the water, not moving. The resident asked the man’s family if he was all right, to which they said he normally floats like that. After a few minutes, the resident again asked the family if the man was still fine, prompting a family member to jump into the water and discover the man was not breathing. The man was pulled out of the water and CPR was administered. Conscious but not speaking, the man was transported to a local hospital’s intensive care unit due to swelling in his lungs.
June 11
Theft of motor vehicle parts
A Savannah Highway auto dealership informed police that someone had stolen all four tires off one of its vehicles parked in the lot. The vehicle was parked in a portion of the car lot not covered by security cameras.
June 11
Vandalism
A woman living at a Hazelwood Drive apartment complex told police someone had vandalized her boyfriend’s car by “keying” words into it. The words included a pointedly harsh curse word, as well as “Bitch” and “AID.”
June 11
Simple assault
A dissatisfied customer returned to a local Chinese restaurant with uneaten and overcooked delivery items, demanding a refund. When the manager refused to refund the money, saying the customer had eaten the food, the customer threw the food in the manager’s face, asking, “Do you want to eat this?”
June 11
Weapons law violations
A police officer pulled over a car speeding down Hazelwood Drive. Once stopped, the driver of the car hopped out, his hands over his head and a handgun hanging out of his pants, exclaiming, “Carter, you got me.” The officer, whose last name is Carter, searched the car and found the driver didn’t have a concealed weapons permit or a driver’s license.
 
June 12
Drugs violation
An officer on the lookout for a car with a passenger swinging a handgun out the back window observed a vehicle fitting the description changing lanes without using indicator lights. Pulling the car over, the officer asked the driver if there were any weapons in the car. At which point, the driver’s boyfriend yelled out from the back seat that, “everything was his.” Searching the car, the officer found a loaded .38 special semiautomatic handgun and nearly an ounce of marijuana in the child safety-seat located in the backseat. A computer check showed that the pistol was also stolen.
June 12
Embezzlement
A Sam Rittenberg department store contacted police after a former manager failed to payback the money for personal items she purchased without permission on a company credit card. The former manager allegedly spent more than $1,900 on gas purchases and groceries and the like. The manager has failed to contact the store since January.
June 12
Drunkenness
Officers arrived at a Savannah Highway motel to find a woman lying on her back, inebriated, in front of a second-floor room. The woman was largely incoherent, but managed to tell police that she was staying in one of the rooms with her boyfriend. Management said that was not the case and asked that she be removed. When she couldn’t walk after being helped to her feet, she was arrested for public intoxication.