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.
May 16
Intimidation
A resident of Royal Palm Boulevard told police she’d been approached and intimidated by a woman at her apartment complex’s laundry facility. According to the resident, the other woman said “she heard I said she wasn’t a very good mother. It would be one more and I would be down. It would be okay, because she would make bail. She was going to [expletive] me up.” Later the resident added, “I’ve never dealt with something like this. I’m afraid she’ll damage my vehicle or do something to my dogs; they’re my children.”
May 20
Narcotics violation
An officer patrolling along Westway Drive had to swerve out of the road to avoid a large car driving down the middle of the street. When the car stopped, the officer noticed an open beer and the smell of burnt marijuana in the car. The driver was not cooperative during a pat-down search on the scene, so the officer arrested him and transported him to jail for a full search. Along the way, the man said, “I’ve got weed and pills in my butt.”
May 20
Vandalism
A local car salesman reported to police that someone had shattered the window to his car and left a rock on the hood of the car. A nearby landscaper described a man simply walking up to the salesman’s vehicle, selecting a few rocks, and then smashing the windshield “like it was nothing,” before walking off. The salesman thinks he knows who the culprit may have been, as he’d had a relationship with another man’s wife who’d threatened “legal repercussions.”
May 21
Forgery
A Leicester Road resident received notification from the federal Internal Revenue Service that it was denying his tax filings for the year because there was already an $11,000 claim filed with the agency under his name. The man checked with his accountant, who said his return was only for $2,000. The resident has also received questions from state revenue officials in Michigan and Oklahoma, despite never having lived, worked, or even visited those states.
May 22
Drug violation
An officer stopped a man near the intersection of St. Andrews Boulevard and Emily Drive for riding a bike at night with no headlight. Speaking with the man, the officer noticed his eyes were glassy. The man admitted he’d had a few beers earlier, but insisted he wasn’t drunk. To prove his point, the man got down on the ground and performed a series of pushups, and asked, “would someone drunk be able to do this?” After consenting to a search and allegedly presenting false identification to the officer, the man was arrested after a very small amount of marijuana was found on his person.
May 22
Simple assault
A man in a wheelchair asked a security guard at one of the West Ashley branches of the county library if he could speak to him in private, and then rolled into the bathroom. The officer, thinking the man needed help relieving himself, followed. But when the door closed, the man in the wheelchair reportedly began to hug the security officer’s waist area and then began groping his genitals, without consent. The security officer declined to press charges.
May 22
Intimidation
A West Ashley mother complained to police that the mother of another child that rides the same bus as her children was intimidating one of her kids in the morning and afternoon at the bus stop. The mother said the other mother was heard saying to her children to “keep your hands off her or I’m going to get someone to handle you.” Later that day, when the complaining mother’s child exited the bus, she claimed her child was kicked repeatedly in the face, with no one on the bus coming to help. The other mother reportedly yelled out, that if anyone had “something to say to me, I’m not the one to be [expletive] playing with. You’re lucky [you’re] children. I’m going to get someone to handle you.”