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 8
GENERAL INFORMATION
Police arrested a man at an Ashley River Road convenience store because they thought he was his brother. Officers answered a complaint at the store of an intoxicated man causing a disturbance. When they arrived, they found a man “fidgeting” and exhibiting other odd behaviors. When asked for identification, the man handed over a driver’s license, which came back with an active warrant on it. When the officers took the man to police headquarters, one of the officers noticed the license didn’t match the man, and released him. The man, who actually had a clean record, then complained of problems breathing, refused medical attention, and was taken to his sister’s home for the night.
August 8
ASSISTING OTHER AGENCIES
A caller told police that a West Ashley woman had just called her and said that she was lost “in the woods.” The caller said the woman was going through a break-up with her son and was worried about her condition. The woman was soon found when she asked an off-duty officer for a ride home from a Johns Island business. The woman then told the officer that she’d met a man at a downtown bar, and then later accepted a ride from him at a gas station. During the ride, the woman reported being taken to the woods and the man forcing himself on her, despite her protestations.  The woman said that when the man was finished, he left her in the woods, returned to his car, and drove off. After receiving medical attention, the woman said she didn’t want to discuss the matter, and just wanted to go home and sleep.
August 10
SIMPLE ASSAULT
Police responded to a fight scene on Wantoot Boulevard, where a teen girl said she’d been “ganged” by two other teen girls, who wanted to fight her for the affection of the same boy. The girl said the other two offered to fight “one-on-one,” but soon teamed up on her, in front of an adult they’d brought with them. The other two girls told police that they’d gone to the girl’s house to discuss the boy, but then the single girl attacked them for no reason.
August 11
DRUG VIOLATION
Police observed an apparently inebriated man riding a bike all over the road at night, almost getting struck by passing cars, with no lights or illumination. The man told police “I am [expletive] up, I just had a pint of bourbon” and decided to go for a bike ride. When police patted down the man, they found a baggie that contained a substance consistent with cocaine base.
August 11
VANDALISM
Police responded to a disturbance at a Savannah Highway gas station, where they found a man claiming to have been struck by another man’s car while riding a bicycle. Police said the man had “heavy” eyelids and whose pupils were “pinpoints even in the low light of the gas station.” The man admitted to have earlier ingested a “large quantity” of heroin.
August 11
CRIMINAL DOMESTIC VIOLENCE, INTIMIDATION
Police arrested a Marsh Lake Court man after a neighbor heard his girlfriend yelling for help at “the top of her lungs” from a bedroom window. The woman told police that her intoxicated boyfriend tried to break down the bedroom door to their child’s bedroom while the two of them slept. The woman said she had been sleeping at her mother’s house, as she and the boyfriend were having relationship problems. The woman returned to their apartment to help their infant child sleep, locking the bedroom door, and making a bed for herself next to the crib, when the boyfriend returned and tried to force his way into the room. The man told the woman she couldn’t call the police because he’d taken her phone.
August 11
INTIMIDATION
A Hazelwood woman told police that her recent ex-boyfriend was threatening her life. The woman said she’d received threatening texts from the man after his car was found with all four tires slashed. One of the messages read: “… I’ll kill you for slashing tires … you’re going to get what’s coming to you …” The woman said she’d changed her phone number three times over the past three days to avoid the man, whom she claimed had published nude photos of her on social media from when they were together.