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.
May 1
Criminal domestic violence – simple assault
An Etiwan Avenue woman reported that her live-in boyfriend attacked her viciously after their pet pig ate their leftovers from a fast food restaurant. The woman said the two had been downtown drinking and then stopped off for late-night fast food on the way home. Once home, she set the leftovers on the ground and raced to the bathroom. When she finished, and the pig had eaten the food, the couple got into an argument that escalated to violence after she touched his guitar, with the boyfriend slapping, punching, and kicking the woman all over their residence. Police found the woman with blood caked on her face and a 5-inch stain of pooled blood on the carpet of the residence. The boyfriend had fled the residence before police arrived.
May 4
Simple assault
An officer on patrol spotted three men attacking a fourth man on Landward Drive, who admitted to having called the three men a racial epithet. Once the officer arrived on the scene, two of the men fled, but the fourth man declined to press charges. A woman on the scene had taken off her shoe and was beating the fourth man with it. The victim said he was fine with the others attacking him, and that he asked one of them to throw the first punch. “They wanted to fight, and I didn’t mind fighting them,” he said.
May 4
Criminal domestic violence – simple assault
A Clayton Drive woman reported her husband as having attacked her after returning from their son’s baseball game and finding she hadn’t made dinner. She said she was lying in their bed when he entered the room, confronted her about the lack of a meal, and grabbed her by the ankle and pulled her out onto the floor, and then hid her glasses in the kitchen. The husband left the home soon after that, but returned later to find the woman in bed with their daughter. The wife said an argument broke out again, and the man took and hid her glasses again, but this time also shoved her into a wall of the house, causing a huge hole in the sheetrock.
May 4
Aggravated assault
A man called police from the road saying the driver of a grey tow-truck pointed a .9 mm pistol at him in traffic after “aggressively tailgating” his vehicle along Savannah Highway. The man said he and the tow-truck yelled back and forth at each other in traffic before the other driver “brandished” the weapon.
May 5
Credit card/ATM fraud
An 18-year-old Pebble Creek Court woman reported her identity having been stolen after she was unable to make a cash withdrawal from her bank’s ATM machine. The woman checked with her credit company, and was told someone had opened and maxed-out three different cards in her name.
May 5
Assisting other agencies
Police arrested a man at a Magwood Drive fast-food restaurant on an active, unrelated warrant after employees reported him asking customers in the drive-thru for money. The man told police he’d been “over there digging in the garbage for food.”
May 5
Injured party
Police found a woman on the floor of a Savannah Highway hotel room in the midst of an apparent heroin overdose, pale, with a “blue face,” and an irregular heart rate. A man standing over her said he called police after he found her in the room getting worse. The man said the two met at a drug and alcohol rehab center, and had attended a 12-step meeting earlier in the evening before she called him to visit her at the motel.