Mug Shots

March 15 Aggravated assault, with a firearm
A Grech Street woman said her former boyfriend attacked her and pulled a gun on her and several friends when she went to his apartment to retrieved some of her belongings. She said when she pulled up, her boyfriend came out of the apartment and began punching her in the head, and was soon joined by the current girlfriend who hit and kicked her. When a friend of the woman tried to intervene, the former boyfriend allegedly pulled a gun, pointed it at several people including two juveniles, and threatened, “I will [expletive] kill you all.” When police arrived on the scene, they arrested the two alleged assailants, and the friend who tried to intervene, as she had a warrant out for her arrest in Walterboro.
March 15 Injured party
A man told police that his ex-girlfriend had called her from her car, lost and disoriented. Police found the woman on the side of the road near the Paul Cantrell Boulevard ramp on I-526. The woman was crying and confused, and complaining of severe vaginal pain like she has experienced in the past after sexual relations. The woman said she had gone out earlier with friends and the only thing she had was a Diet Coke, and that she doesn’t remember anything else. The woman was taken to the hospital for care.
March 15 Simple assault
Police arrived at a Magwood Drive hair salon as an employee ran outside in tears, saying that her co-worker had punched her repeatedly over a disagreement involving a client. The co-worker denied having hit the woman, but was arrested after the police noticed visible damage to the other woman’s right eye.
March 15 Theft from a building
A woman noticed that her wallet missing at a West Ashley mega hardware store where she had just returned 10 doorknobs. The woman said she returned the knobs, and then went shopping for some other items, including fertilizer, and noticed her wallet was gone when she went to pay for the additional items.
March 16 Embezzlement
A manager at a Sam Rittenberg Boulevard clothing store filed a complaint with police alleging a former employee had embezzled over $3,200 from the store. The manager said the employee had been making fraudulent returns and keeping the money for herself. The manager also presented to police an admission note the former employee allegedly wrote voluntarily.
March 16 Robbery, firearm
A guest at a Savannah Highway motel reported having been robbed in the back lot by a man with a handgun, saying to give him “everything you got.” She said she gave the man her phone and purse, and said a second time he wanted “everything.” The woman asked the robber if he wanted her car keys, to which he replied no and fled. The woman got back into her car and drove around to the office of the motel, whereupon she spied the man who just robbed her on the second floor of the motel standing outside a room, her purse in hand. The man fled a second time.
March 17 Intimidation
An Ashley Hall Plantation Road woman called police to report her husband was stalking her. When police arrived at her apartment, they found the husband lying on the ground by the woman’s car, wearing blue latex gloves, dark clothes, and a wool hat with holes cut out for his mouth and eyes. When asked why he did this, the man told police that he didn’t want to get caught, and that he wanted to see what his wife and her boyfriend were up to. The woman had placed a wildlife camera in the woods near her parking spot and had collected a series of images of the husband skulking around the car and her apartment’s windows over the period of several days.
March 17 Shoplifting
Two shoplifters fleeing a Sam Rittenberg Boulevard department store nearly struck a small child with their vehicle. The women had been spotted by a store employee stuffing close to $1,000 in infant wear into a purse. After the employee confronted them, the two women ran outside and jumped into a car with out-of-state plates, and tore off, nearly hitting the child, whose mother snatched her out of the way.