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.
January 20 | Missing person
An Egret Court woman called police to report her teen son was missing. A search of his room and area showed that his Xbox, clothes, bed comforter, and toiletries were gone, as was his car, which was later found abandoned in North Charleston with its lights on. The mother also found a note from her son, which read, “I love you guys, I promise I’ll be happy when I get where I’m going.” The teen was found the next day.
January 21 | General information
A Susan Avenue woman made a “shots fired” report to police. When officers arrived, the woman said that children behind her home had fired either a BB gun or an Airsoft gun in the direction of her house. Police interviewed the kids, a 9-year-old boy and his 1-year-old sister. The boy admitted to having fired an Airsoft gun in the general direction of the woman’s house. Their father confiscated the kids’ “weapons” and turned them over to police to be destroyed.
January 21 | All other offenses
An employee at a Sam Rittenberg store reported a “stack of cash” missing from an easily accessible “cubby” in the front counter. The employee said a young man approached him in the front of the business, asking if he was hiring, to which he was told no. A knock then came at the store backdoor, and another man was standing there, asking if he was hiring. When the employee returned to the front, the cash was gone, and so was the first young man.
January 21 | Simple assault
Police responded to a Mepkin Road apartment after a verbal disagreement between roommates escalated into a physical altercation in the unit’s first floor. One roommate situated upstairs heard one of his roommates exclaim. “you just hit me in the face,” but he never saw the actual incident. That roommate had a fresh cut above his eye and said that he struck the third roommate in self-defense. The third roommate claimed not to have struck the bleeding roommate, and that the bleeding roommate actually attacked him, unprovoked.
 January 21 | Missing person
The landlord of a Stinson Drive apartment called police to report his tenant missing. The tenant had been in contact about missing rent, but hadn’t been heard from since the fall. The landlord went to the unit this week and found it in disarray, with a set of keys on the floor, perishable food left out, and some of the tenant’s belongings packed and some unpacked.
January 21 | Trespass
An employee at a Citadel Haven hotel called to complain about a man already having been issued a no-trespass order, sleeping in one of the facility’s bathrooms. When officers asked the man why he was continuing to do this after being told to leave, the man said he had no where else to go.
January 22 | Simple assault
Police arrested a man on Argonne Street after he allegedly attacked and bit his own father in front of the man’s own daughter. The father claimed his son had threatened to kill him, grabbing him by the neck and throwing him into a wall. The man claimed his father and daughter had “ganged him,” and had hit him the face with a cup, impairing his vision.
January 22 | Drug violation
Police noticed a moped’s wheel protruding from behind a bush at a Skylark Drive grocery store. The man soon appeared from behind the bush and, smelling of alcohol, began walking toward the police vehicle. The man refused to give his name or identification, but police found a paycheck stub with the man’s name on it on the man, as well as what appeared to be small amounts of marijuana and cocaine. A local towing company then towed the man’s moped away.