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 26 | LARCENY BY FALSE PRETENSES
A Savannah Highway car dealership reported a man having written them a bad check for a $65,000 truck. The dealership had contacted the man about the insufficient funds notice, and he initially promised to return and resolve the situation. The man has not returned and the dealership was not able to find the truck at the address he gave as his residence.
August 27 | CRIMINAL DOMESTIC VIOLENCE – SIMPLE ASSAULT
A N. Woodmere Boulevard woman told police that her husband had attempted to force their crying 1-year-old child to smoke a cigarette after she and her husband had argued. The man allegedly told the child to “smoke this [expletive] cigarette you little [expletive].” When the woman snatched the child back, her husband apparently became enraged, and began to strike the woman in the head, even as she fled the apartment.
August 27 | DEATH INVESTIGATION
A Sam Rittenberg Boulevard man told police that he found his girlfriend dead on their living room floor when he returned from work. Police observed the woman sitting nude, discolored, and cold to the touch on the floor. Police found several empty bottles of alcohol throughout the residence. The man said she had reported feeling dehydrated an unable to keep down water earlier in the week.
August 27 | SIMPLE ASSAULT
Police arrested a Weeping Willow Way man for assaulting his wife and child. When the man answered the door, he was reportedly slurring his speech and unable to maintain his balance, saying, “Just take me to jail.” Apparently, the man had just been diagnosed with cancer, and had returned to heavy drinking, causing a marital argument. The argument soon escalated to violence as the man punched his wife, according to a witness, and soon grabbed their son, threw him to the ground, whereupon the father delivered a “full on soccer kick” to his son’s side.
August 27 | AGGRAVATED ASSAULT
Two girls told police they’d seen a carload of boys pull up and attack a single boy who’d been playing on his cellphone near a Grand Oaks Boulevard pool. The girls told the officer that the boys talked to the boy and then shot him in the chest with a BB gun.
August 27 | CDV- SIMPLE ASSAULT
A West Ashley woman told police that her husband had slapped her across the head after they’d roughhoused in a Shadow Arbor Circle pool. Apparently, the woman had pushed her husband into the pool, and witnesses said he then dragged her across the pool deck, threw her into the water, and began dunking her repeatedly with their juvenile child present. During the dunking, the woman struck her husband in the face with her ring finger, cutting his lip. A mutual friend said he verbally confronted the husband, who responded that she “deserved it.”
August 28 | BURGLARY, BREAKING AND ENTERING
A Sam Rittenberg Boulevard store reported that thieves had made off with as much as $25,000 in electronics through a huge hole that had been cut in the store’s roof. An extendable rope ladder was found hanging off the back alley roof of the building.
August 29 | AGGRAVATED ASSAULT
Police responded to a local hospital to a report of a man who been stabbed in the buttocks while walking on Wantoot Boulevard. The man told police he was on his way to walk a female friend home from work when an unknown man jumped out of a car and attacked him with a knife, stabbing him in the buttocks. The attacker then fled the scene in a car.
August 29 | SIMPLE ASSAULT
Police responded to a fight at a St. Andrews Boulevard convenience store that involved a female employee throwing bottles of wines at a male coworker and punching her mother in the face. Police have surmised the fight began after the coworker had been given a promotion over the employee. Video showed the coworkers embroiled in a heated verbal argument that escalated when the female employee grabbed a bottle of wine off a shelf and threw it at her coworker, who tried to hide behind a shelf of potato chips. The woman threw another bottle of wine at the male coworker, who then fled the scene in his car. When the woman’s mother arrived, she apparently “boxed” her own mom in the face before fleeing on foot.
August 29 | LARCENY
A West Ashley church reported that someone had stolen its trailer where a $3,500 grill and eight propane tanks were housed.
August 29 | SHOPLIFTING
A Sam Rittenberg Boulevard store reported a woman shoplifting six Yeti-brand metal tumblers, valued at close to $240. An employee reported becoming suspicious of the woman, and saying that her purse was rattling like it was full of metal cups. A man soon returned to the store and attempted to return several similar cups, but the transaction was denied.
August 29| OBSCENE, HARASSING CALLS
A West Ashley woman came to the police station on Sam Rittenberg Boulevard to report her ex-boyfriend had been leaving obscene and harassing messages on her phone. One of the messages stated: “[Expletive] you. [Expletive] that [slur] dude you with. You such a slut; oh its not about another person. [Expletive]  … Literally kill yourself or get into a car wreck. Either way I don’t care and I hope you never are able to have kids and are given a [expletive] incurable disease.”
August 29 | VANDALISM
A man living at an Ashley Crossing Drive apartment told police that his motorcycle was missing from where he’d parked it the night before. Police soon reported finding a motorcycle matching his description of his bike, in the grass around the corner. The man confirmed it was his motorcycle, and found where the ignition system had been cut.