January 10 | CRIMINAL DOMESTIC VIOLENCE, SIMPLE ASSAULT
A Vestry Drive couple got into a violent confrontation over who owned the frying pan the man was trying to cook eggs in. The man said he and his girlfriend, who is eight months pregnant, began struggling over the pan. After wresting the pan free, the man said he set it on the counter and went outside to call for assistance, but noticed his girlfriend and her mother were attempting to lock him out of the house. The man said he rushed to the door with enough momentum to crack its frame. The girlfriend and her mother said the man had earlier come through the back door, and begin making an “outrageous” racket in the kitchen, which included slamming the pan down on the stove. The girlfriend claimed that after she dumped his eggs down the sink, he grabbed the eggs and threw them at her. The mother audiotaped the incident.
January 10 | CRIMINAL DOMESTIC VIOLENCE, AGGRAVATED ASSAULT, WITH A KNIFE
A Rice Drive woman told police that her boyfriend had threatened to kill her while pressing a folding knife to her cheek because she didn’t give him the keys to her car, saying “I would never lay hands on you. I would just kill you so nobody could find you.” The woman said she gave him the keys and he left. The woman said the two had been fighting for hours over the car keys, and that for a while he had sat in a closet with the knife and the sheet over his head, “begging” for the keys. The woman later discovered that her driver’s license and $225 in cash were missing from her purse.
January 10 | GENERAL INFORMATION
Police investigated a man repeatedly making suspicious phone calls to a West Ashley television station, stating that he wanted to hurt people so they could feel as he did. The man said he was upset over the coverage of the Dylann Roof sentencing story, and that the station’s news coverage of the event didn’t report the “right” statistics in regards to Black Lives Matter and crimes committed by black people. The man told police that while he has no plans on hurting anyone, he claimed to have been investigated by the FBI, and that he has been a patient in a mental hospital in the past. He then said he wouldn’t call the station again, and that he had to get off the phone so he could get up in the morning and go to work.
January 10 | VANDALISM
A West Ashley man reported to police that seven streetlights had been shot out near the intersection of Bees Ferry Drive and West Ashley Circle. Damage was estimated to be close to $5,000.
January 10 | MISSING PERSON
A man staying at a Savannah Highway motel reported that his brother, an engineer at Boeing for the past four years, had been missing for several days. The brother’s secretary reported that he hadn’t been to work for days, and the man said his truck was missing from the motel room they are sharing while they look for a new house. No one in the family had reported the brother checking in with them in for several days.
January 12 | THEFT FROM BUILDING
A Sycamore Shade Street mother told police that her daughter had pawned her expensive laptop for the second time. The laptop is intended for schoolwork and is not to be taken out of the house.
January 12 | SHOPLIFTING
A woman being arrested for shoplifting at a Sam Rittenberg Boulevard department store told police that she took “crack/cocaine” as medicine, which was prescribed by a doctor, and that she was “aching for a braking.” She also told police that her dog was named “Pinoccio” because he was a “lying SOB.”
January 12 | SIMPLE ASSAULT
A Shadow Ferry Drive woman told police that her live-in boyfriend physically attacked her and her son, hitting him repeatedly in the face with his fist while the son was sleeping in bed. The man had allegedly torn up the house, including kicking over the Christmas tree and fake presents. During the man’s attack on her son, the woman said he also hit them empty soda cans and poured soda on top of them.
