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.
September 29
Counterfeit
A man entered a Savannah Highway thrift store and purchased a used machete with what turned out to be a counterfeit $100 bill.
September 29
Assisting other agencies
Police responded to an Orange Branch Road playground in the morning after a caller informed them that a suspicious man was sleeping on a picnic table near a school bus stop and a school. When police arrived, they found a man sleeping on a table with a light blue blanket covering him. The man said he slept there because the homeless shelter was full, and that he intended to seek mental health help that morning. A quick records check showed the man had an active warrant, and was arrested.
September 29
Harassment
A federal prosecutor living on Chadwick Drive called police after receiving a series of threatening phone calls and texts. The man, whose number is private, said the text messages were a series of broken phrases. But he decided to call police after calling the number and hearing a voice say, “I am outside your house.”
September 29
Criminal domestic violence
Police responded to an apartment off Glenn McConnell Parkway after receiving a call that a woman was being abused by her boyfriend. The woman said the boyfriend had head-butted her, threatening, “I could kill you if I wanted.” The woman texted a friend and asked him to call the police on her behalf because she couldn’t call 911 in front of her boyfriend. The friend also told police that the boyfriend had recently struck the woman in the back of the head, causing a gash to open up. Police took pictures of blood on the wall of the apartment that was supposed to have come from that wound. The man was arrested.
September 30
Family offense
Police took two newborns away from their mother at a local hospital, citing staff’s finding the mother not being able to care for the twins. The woman has nine other children, all of who had recently been taken into protective custody for “obvious medical and physical neglect” in a separate custody case. The father of the twins was also being investigated for “alleged sexual violations” with one of the other nine children.
September 30
General information
Police received a call from a local mental health service that a suicidal man living in Proximity Drive apartment was armed and threatening himself via “suicide by cop.” When four officers arrived at the apartment, the man said his guns were put away and that he would come out with his hands up. The man admitted to having suicidal thoughts, but no plan, and agreed to seek medical help. The man then drove himself to a nearby mental health clinic in his own car.
September 30
Vandalism
A Dogwood Drive woman called police after she said she caught her boyfriend stealing her hubcaps. In the wee hours, the woman walked outside her apartment and found her hubcaps missing from her car, one of the side mirror smashed, and a flat rear tire. She returned to her apartment, put on another pair of pants, and returned to her car, where she saw her boyfriend putting her hubcaps back. The woman told police they had fought earlier in the evening about their relationship, and that she wanted to press charges because she was tired of “childish games.” The woman received a message from her boyfriend stating he would pay for the damage, not to call the police, and that he didn’t slash the rear tire, and that all it needed was air to be put into it.