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.
October 14 | Theft from a building
A fireman discovered someone had stolen his laptop and other personal items from his fire station while he was out on a call. He and another fireman saw their personal items strewn about as if they’d had a prank pulled on them. But upon further inspection, one fireman was able to add expensive earphones and an iPod to the list of his items that had been stolen.
October 14 | Criminal domestic violence
A woman from another part of Charleston met with police at a Savannah Highway store to report her husband assaulting her. The woman said they had been in a verbal argument a few days prior in which the man grew increasingly irate and began destroying items in their house. She said when he turned on her, she raised her hands to protect her face, and her husband grabbed her roughly by the arm. A large bruise was still visible, and the woman said her doctor told her the bruise was swollen with fluid and would have to be drained. Twice police offered to take the woman to a shelter for the battered, but she refused, saying she would be fine until her husband “found out she had filed a complaint against him.”
October 14 | Use of vehicle without consent
A Savage Road woman was awakened by her roommate, telling her that he had wrecked her car into two other parked cars. She had awakened earlier to find her keys and vehicle missing. The woman said she had given the roommate permission to drive her car to and from his work, and only during regular business hours.
October 14 | Attempted suicide
An elderly West Ashley man suffering from depression was drinking alcohol when his wife said he told her, “I want to die,” and instructed her to bring him a firearm. Later, when the wife checked on the man, he was on the ground, unresponsive, with a hypodermic needle beside him. She told police she was worried about how much insulin he had ingested. Police escorted the man to a nearby hospital after he was found unable to neither walk without assistant nor speak without slurring his words.
October 14 | Simple assault
Two workers at a Savannah Highway convenience store reported a 6’5” man “slapping” coffee all over them. Soon after police arrived on the scene, they spotted a man fitting his description walking along the road. When approached, the man said he was angry at how expensive the coffee was, and when the employees wouldn’t give him his money back, he admitted to “slapping” the coffee at them. 
October 14 | injured party
Police responding to an inured person report at an Ashley Hall Plantation Road apartment, found two men outside of the apartment, one of who ran inside and locked the second man and the officer outside of the apartment. After the other man opened the sliding glass door of the apartment, the first man ran into a bedroom, locking that door, whereupon both the officer and the other man heard a loud thump. Thinking the man had fallen inside the room and hurt himself; the officer and the other man forced their way inside the locked door, and found the bedroom’s second-floor window open. Returning outside to find the man, with other officers responding, they searched the immediate area. The man was found at the door of a nearby apartment asking for medical help, complaining of a hurt leg and back and difficulty breathing. When asked what he was doing, the man said he was running from someone who was trying to rob him. Back at the apartment, an officer found a piece of burnt tin foil and what appeared to be either methamphetamine or heroin, and a bag of hypodermic needles.
October 15 | Aggravated assault
Police responded to a Beechwood Road trailer park, where they found a man with a “large indention” on the side of his face standing in front of his residence. The man said a younger man hit him in the face after he approached the younger man about his dog running around off its leash. The mother of the alleged assailant, who also lives in the park, said the older man confronted her son in the middle of the road, demanding he leash their puppy. At which point, the mother, who also lives in the park, said the older man cussed at her son, saying, “you need to put that [redacted] on a leash.” Her son, she said, said the owner of the park liked the puppy and didn’t mind. The mother said the older man, with a bottle of beer in hand, then responded, “Oh, you think you are a [redacted] bad ass,” and then shoved her son.
October 15 | General information
An employee at a local medical center told police that a patient had her concerned with comments he had been making to on the phone, including: “I’m a ticketing [sic] time bomb and by Saturday anything could happen from high up.” The man was apparently disgruntled by a change in his appointment times, and had been calling her line several times a day for 20 minutes at a time for the past week.
October 15 | Simple assault
A woman shopping at a Folly Road retail store told police another shopper slapped her in the face after the woman asked the shopper to keep her dog away from her backpack. The woman said she was at the counter when the shopper entered the store with a white and gray pug dog off its leash. The dog began sniffing at the woman’s backpack. When the woman complained, the other shopper claimed the dog was a service dog and was allowed. When the other shopper returned to the store a second time, the dog went up to the woman, who again asked that it be removed. When the woman walked outside, the shopper began yelling and cussing at her, slapping her in the face with an open palm.