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.
September 17 |Vandalism
Police responded to a shots fired complaint at an Ashley Hall Plantation Road apartment complex and found a bevy of spent shells on the ground outside of several units. Witness said a man wearing a tank top fired between five and seven shots before fleeing into the nearby woods.
September 17 | Death investigation
A worker at a West Ashley golf course found a 67-year-old man face down in a pond near the 16th hole. The man, who has since been identified, had been dead for about an hour. Foul play is not being considered, and police are continuing to investigate.
September 17 | Intimidation
Several parents of students at a West Ashley school met with administrators and police to complain that their children had been threatened with a gun while walking to school. The parents said their children are now scared to walk to school after they claimed three men stopped them on a walking bridge, showed them a gun, told them to raise their hands, and then said it was a BB gun. One of the three men who allegedly threatened the kids may have been identified by one of the kids, who resides in the same apartment complex.
September 17 | Burglary
Police responded to an alarm signal from a West Ashley golf club. During a walk-through with an employee, there was found signs of forced entry. Reviewing a security video, it showed a man spraying the clubhouse front door with a fire extinguisher, then making his way into the facility through a window, and then crawling out another window. Outside the second window, police found an empty keg of beer with the graffiti image of a penis. Inside the nearby health center, someone had drawn the outline of a marijuana leaf and written the word “weed” on the sign-in sheet.
September 18 | Disorderly conduct
Two sisters apparently became violent with each other at a Savannah Highway motel after one of them drank too much wine. Police said that one of the sisters said it was time to go to bed in the room they were sharing with their parents, enraging the heavier-drinking sister. A fight broke out, and the drinking sister said she was going to sleep outside. Told by police that wasn’t an option, she then said she would catch a flight home that night. A verbal altercation broke out with the police there, during which the mother told the drinking daughter she was a disgrace and that the other sister was her favorite.
September 18 | Wire fraud
A Poinsetta Road woman told police someone had used her ATM and credit card number to take out a loan and send several Money Grams. Within one week, the culprits apparently took out a $1,200 loan and sent over $3,000 in Money Grams with the woman’s information.
September 18 | Injured party
Police responded to an emergency call regarding a possible overdose at a Carriage Lane apartment complex. When officers arrived at the unit, they found a woman laying on her back with the phone next to her, and her eyes rolled back in her head. When an officer placed a hand on the woman’s shoulder and said they were there to help, the woman began to writhe uncontrollably for several seconds before leaping up and then leaping off the bed, jumping into the wall, and then curling in the corner in a fetal position, saying, “Don’t hurt me.”
September 18 | Embezzlement
Two fired former workers at a West Ashley super store signed forms admitting they had embezzled from the store. One of them signed a form saying she had stolen $700 from her register over a short period of time, which seemed to be corroborated by video evidence. The other signed a form that she had stolen close to $1,700 in items over roughly the same time.
September 18 | Trespass
A Trailmore Road man called police after he once again found a woman asleep in his house that he had ordered out before. Police checked and the sleeping woman was violating a no-trespass order at the residence for the second time in eight days.