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 off to protect the innocent. All suspects are  innocent until proven guilty, of course.
August 12 Burglary
Police met with an employee at a Sam Rittenberg Boulevard jewelry store in the middle of the night, and found an outside store window broken. Inside, several display cases had been broken into, with some of its contents strewn about. The employee couldn’t tell for sure at that moment everything that had been stolen, but confirmed at least 13 Michael Kors designer watches had been taken. A later review of surveillance video showed a man with a mallet or hammer smashing the window and displays.
August 12 Attempted suicide
Acting on a request from the victim’s father, police responded to an Ashley Forest woman’s home. The father was worried whether his grown daughter may have cut herself. When police arrived, they found the woman in a bedroom, with August inch cuts to her wrists and arms. The woman refused treatment, and was taken into protective custody and onto the hospital.
August 13 Shoplifting
Workers at a Sam Rittenberg Boulevard department store called police to report a suspicious man walking shoeless in the store. The man was spotted ducking behind a display of flip-flop shoes several times, and was later spotted wearing a pair with the sales tag still visible. When confronted, the man said he intended to pay for them, and that he had money for them, but was arrested anyway.
August 13 Drug violation
Police responded to an Ashley River Road apartment following reports of a suspicious man near a woman’s unit. The man was “visibly” shaken, with watery eyes, according to police. When asked what he was doing at the apartment unit, the man said he came to talk to the resident, whom he barely knew, about “decisions he had made.” During a search of the man, police found some marijuana, a check carbon made out to him for $600, and a checkbook belonging to the woman. When the man’s mother arrived, she said he told her he had cashed a $600 check of the woman’s and intended to give her the checkbook back and explain his actions. The man said he was feeling suicidal and was taken into protective custody.
August 14 Suicide
A driver told police that while he was using a cut-through behind a Skylark Drive store; he had seen a man who had hanged himself from a tree with a tow belt. When police arrived, fire department and emergency medical techs were attempting to resuscitate the man. The man was later pronounced dead.
August 14 Simple assault
A man living in a Royal Palms Boulevard apartment told police that the woman he was in the beginning stages of a relationship, or just ‘talking to,” had attacked him. The man said the two had spent the day applying for jobs. When they got back to his apartment, the woman said she didn’t think she needed to be around the man any longer, as she was sure to get a job. When the man told the woman she needed to call a cab and leave, he claimed she yelled, “[expletive] you, old man!” and attacked him. She left before police arrived.
August  14 Trespassing
While on patrol along Taberwood Circle, an officer saw a man hanging around an address he was on a no-trespass notice. The man told the officer that he knew he was on a no-trespass order, but that both his brother and sister had given him permission to be there. When contacted, both the brother and sister denied this, and asked that their brother be arrested and prosecuted.