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.
December 2 | Disorderly conduct
Police were attempting to execute a traffic stop outside a Savannah Highway motel when a man came upon them, screaming and cursing. Told to stop, the man, smelling of alcohol and slurring his words while walking unsteadily, thrust his hands in the air and announced, “This ain’t Ferguson, mother-[expletive], I’m watching out for my peoples, and I don’t care who you are.” When told a second time to stay clear until after the traffic stop was completed, the man replied, “[Expletive] you, I’m not leaving. I’m watching out for my [expletive] people.” The man was arrested.
December 2 | Criminal domestic violence, aggravated assault
Police arrived at the corner of Avondale Drive and Savannah Highway and found a woman “crying and visibly shaken” with a child in tow. The woman claimed she and her boyfriend had begun arguing earlier at a doctor’s appointment, and it continued into the car where she alleged her boyfriend grabbed her by the hair, and then the neck. After she demanded to be let out of the car, the boyfriend pulled over at the corner, allegedly warning the woman, “Bitch if you press charges, I’m going to kill you.” Medical personnel were unable to find a visible sign of any attack on the woman, who declined medical attention; and asked to be taken home. When officers asked if she would be safe there, the woman replied, “Oh, he wouldn’t come over without calling. He never has. I’ll be fine.”
December 2 | Bench warrant service
A man called police after another man confronted him outside a Savannah Highway diner, upset with the way the man had been yelling at employees about his grilled cheese sandwich not being fresh. The man said he was worried because the other man is his neighbor at a nearby motel. But, in doing an identity check, police found out that the man had an outstanding warrant and arrested him, instead, on the spot.
December 3 | Injured party
A 3-year-old girl called police from a Colony Drive townhome saying her mother was “asleep” and she couldn’t wake her after several tries. The little girl could not go outside to tell police where she lived because the door was locked from the inside. The little girl told police that she could see a certain gas station from the bathroom window, which narrowed the search for the officers, who then asked her to flip on and off the bathroom light. When officers arrived, they knocked on the townhome’s door, but no one answered, so they began kicking in the door, which roused the mother. The mother told police she had been sleeping, exhausted from having moved into the townhome that day, and hadn’t heard her daughter’s attempts to wake her. Officers saw several moving boxes spread throughout the unit.
December 4 | All other larceny
A man installing PVC pipes in a Sycamore Drive home told police that an unknown number of copper pipes had been stolen from underneath the home where they were being stored. Officers working the scene did find a shopping bag with three pairs of new work gloves and 20 bars of Ivory soap where the copper pipes had been.
December 4 | Simple assault
Police arrested a teen at a West Ashley middle school after the girl attacked another student, punching the other girl repeatedly in the head. The attacker had been taunting the other girl into fighting her, and had just previously asked a teacher what the consequences for fighting would be, and then went ahead anyway and attacked the other student.
December 4 | Breaking and entering, burglary
Employees of a Sycamore Drive business told police when they came to work they found the front glass door shattered, the cash registered destroyed, and about $100 in cash missing. Police checked and discovered there had been no security alarm report coming from the business.