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 11
Criminal domestic violence, aggravated assault
A woman chased the father of her child with a machete through the parking lot of her Wappoo Road apartment complex. The man reported the two were having a dispute in the doorway of her apartment when she attacked him physically. When his brother attempted to break up the fight, the man said the woman attacked him, too, and then soon emerged with a big machete and chased them through the parking lot, after kicking several dents into the mans car’s doors.
May 11
Criminal domestic violence, simple assault
Officers responded to a Savannah Highway motel and found a woman in the lobby with blood on her face and a towel. The woman said she had been smoking crack with her boyfriend and another man in one of the rooms, when her boyfriend ran out of money but still wanted to smoke more crack. She claimed her boyfriend offered the other man to have sex with her in exchange for more crack. When she refused, she claimed her boyfriend attacked her. When officers spoke with the boyfriend in the motel room, he was inebriated and wearing only underwear. He claimed he had rebuffed her sexual advances, and that she left the room crying for “whatever” reason.
May 12
Intimidation
A Deer Path Way father reported four people, including his son’ ex-girlfriend, came to their home to confront his son and possibly damage their property. The father said he went outside, became embroiled in an argument with one of the men that came, and punched the other man several times in the face after the other man took a swing at him. Later, that man told police at a local hospital that a 50-year-old man had attacked him, and that he wanted to press charges. The man soon became belligerent with police when asked why he’d waited several hours to go to the hospital and to call police.
May 12
Fraud
A Regis Court woman told police that she had transferred $1,900 via iTunes cards to a caller claiming to be from the FBI threatening to arrest her for tax issues. When she called the FBI, they said it was a scam and that because a bank wasn’t involved in the transaction, they couldn’t do anything. When the woman contacted iTunes, they said to call the FBI.
May 12
Simple assault
Police responded to an Ashley River Road residence where they found a man with a history of mental health issues and substance abuse wiping away the pepper spray his mother had shot in his face. The mother said she had taken away her son’s phone as a punishment, and that he was angry and threatening, demanding its return. The mother claimed that when the son continued to be threatening, and having thrown a brick at her backdoor, she shot him with a “short burst” of pepper spray in the face.
May 12
Aggravated assault
A man staying at a Savannah Highway motel reported that a man stuck a gun in his face after being told that a “Sandra” was not in his room. The guest shut the door and called police, who came and found the man and the gun in the front seat of a BMW, which had the wrong car’s license plates on them.
May 12
Drunkenness
A woman called police from inside her car at her Balsam Street home that a drunk, shirtless man wouldn’t let her exit her car and enter her house. The woman told police that the man told her, “You will get out when I say you can.” When police arrived, they found the man sitting in a chair in the front yard, inebriated, with a case of beer on the ground. When an officer asked if the wallet on the ground next to the man was his, the man responded: “You have the right.” Every time police asked him a question, the man repeatedly responded with, “Anything you say, I got the right.”
May 12
Disorderly conduct
A man sitting by himself at the corner of Sam Rittenberg Boulevard and Dupont Road became aggressive toward police when they tried to conduct a check on his welfare. “I hate the police, two officers raped me Sunday at McDonalds, I so I don’t want to talk to you.” As police attempted to end the conversation, the man continued to escalate verbally, and then claimed to be “god” and that he’d been sent by god to save black women from being raped by law enforcement. Officers finally arrested the man after he threatened to kill them.