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.
December 13 | Telephone calls, harassing
A woman stopped her car on Nicholson Street and told police that her ex-boyfriend had texted her a series of intimidating messages, which included a map of her sister’s house and picture of a failed protection order with the caption, “Remember this?” The woman said she’d earlier spotted his minivan with Special Forces tags tailing her through town.
December 13 | Sex offense, fondling
A West Ashley woman told police that her autistic son admitted to her that her ex-boyfriend had fondled his genitals.
December 13 | Shoplifting
A manager at an Orleans Road store told police that a man with a beard as long as his hair shoplifted two Dyson “stick” vacuum cleaners, valued at a combined $652. Police reviewed video surveillance footage and saw a man climb on a step stool to grab the vacuums.
December 14 | Drugs, narcotics violation
Police found a man asleep at the wheel of his truck at a Savannah Highway gas station with a variety of heroin-related paraphernalia in the vehicle. The first officer to respond to the scene woke the man by tapping on the window and then by shaking the truck. During a subsequent search of the man’s vehicle, police discovered a full hypodermic, a lighter, more heroin, a glass pipe, and a loaded handgun.
December 14 | Lost property
A Beechcraft Street woman told police that she could not find her $16,000 wedding ring and band.
December 14 | Theft of motor vehicle
A truck driver told police that someone had stolen his 50-foot semi-trailer that he had parked alongside Wal-Mart. The store allows trucks to park rigs there. The man said he’d been parking his trailer there for five years. Police found that there were no safety equipment protecting the trailer and that any 18-wheeler could have made off with it.
December 15 | Intimidation
A White Oak Drive woman called police to report that a former tenant who’d just been evicted for failure to pay rent had returned to the property, and told her from the window of his car that he knows where she lives and that he would come later to get her and take care of her.
December 15 | Burglary
A Pearlott Street man told police that after he discovered his back door to his house was open, he found that someone had torn through his house. Missing was a $6,000 engagement ring.
December 15 | Shoplifting
Police responded to the West Ashley Wal-Mart where a woman had been detained for shoplifting various grocery items, including hotdogs, three bags of shredded lettuce, chips, fruit, and jalapenos chips. Police reviewed surveillance video and spotted the woman hiding the food in bags, as if the items had been paid for, in the books section of the store, and then attempting to walk out the doors. The woman admitted to having made a “mistake,” cited, and released.
December 15 | Assisting other agencies
Police responded to a West Ashley medical clinic where a manager said that several patients who were supposed to be receiving opioids pain medication were not, and that the medicine was missing. Five techs at the clinic are under suspicion and the matter has also been referred to the state Department of Health and Environmental Control.
December 15 | Drunkenness
Police arrested two inebriated men trying to gain entry to an Ashley Hall Plantation Road home in the wee hours of the night. Earlier, police responded to a nearby scene where the two men had refused to pay a cab driver for driving them to the same spot. Thirty minutes later, and the resident of the apartment told police the two men had been banging on his door trying to get inside, and that they have tried before to be allowed to sleep there when they are drunk, and that he has turned them away before.