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 out to protect the innocent. All suspects are  innocent until proven guilty …  of course.
August 31 | Intimidation
An Ashley Hall Road woman heard a series loud pops early that rainy morning, and soon after received a text message that read, “go roll up your windows.” When she went outside, she found someone had shot out all of her vehicle’s windows with a BB gun. She received a series of texts afterward, including: “enjoy your daughter for the few hours you have left,” “you just lost your daughter,” and “your car was a warning.” The woman suspects her ex-boyfriend of three weeks is behind the harassment.
August 31 | Drunkenness
Police responded to a call of a man stumbling in and out of traffic on St. Andrews Boulevard. After an officer arrived on the scene, the man fell into the marsh, and was not able to stand up due to his apparent inebriation.
 August 31 | Liquor law violation
Police followed a moped through neighborhoods located off Ashley Hall Road and Raoul Wallenberg Boulevard. The officer stopped the moped after its driver ignored a stop sign. The driver said he wasn’t doing anything wrong, and that he was just looking around. The officer noticed the man had an open can of beer in a cupholder of the moped, and arrested the man. Once in the back of the police cruiser, the man apparently went into seizures and was transported to a local hospital.
September 2 | Criminal domestic violence
Neighbors of a Parklawn Drive couple told police that the husband had been repeatedly striking the woman in the face with his closed fist. The man had been yelling, “You think this is bad, look at what you’ve done on your phone,” apparently confronting his wife for having contacted her ex-husband recently. The wife denied having been struck, claiming the redness and swelling on one side of her face was the result of a bicycle wreck a few weeks prior.
September 2 | Shoplifting
A worker at an Old Towne Road discount store reported a woman carrying items in her arms through the aisles, but when she turned the corner on one aisle, the items were no longer there. The employee followed the customer into the parking lot and asked to look in her bag. There, she found one package of boys underwear, another package of boys Teenage Mutant Ninjas briefs, and some Spiderman shorts. The woman returned the items and then fled in a car.
September 2 | Drug violation
Police responded to a Sam Rittenberg Boulevard restaurant after a call came in that claimed one of the male employees there had an outstanding warrant. When police spoke with the employee outside, he attempted to hand off his apron to his girlfriend, but in doing so showed that he was in possession of a marijuana grinder and small smoking pipe. A records check showed the employee had no outstanding warrants, but was issued over $1,000 in citations for possession of a small amount of drugs and paraphernalia.
September 3 | Assisting fire department
Police accompanied local firefighters as they forced entry into an Ashley Hall Plantation Road apartment. Once inside the flooding apartment, the firefighters went into the bathroom where they discovered a toilet tube spraying water and causing water damage. They then turned off the water.
September 3 | Attempted suicide
A Montgrave Drive man with a history of depression told police that he had been upset over a disagreement he’d had earlier with his son when he texted a friend: “the temple or the mouth?” The man’s sister was worried that the man would harm himself with .22 caliber pistol. The man said he had been seeking medical help for his mood, and agreed to be taken to a local hospital.
September 3 | Intimidation
An Old Towne Drive convenience store employee upset about a pay raise he had just received began threatening the store manager in her office. The manager walked the man out to the main counter, where he reiterated a threat that “every time you go to the bank, you are going to need a police escort. I mean it, and I won’t have to get my hands dirty.” When the now-former employee returned 45 minutes later, he warned the manager that she’d best “sleep with one eye open.”