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.
July 14 | Larceny
A couple allegedly “dined and dashed” at a West Ashley restaurant, leaving a nearly $95 bill unpaid on the table next to a “decoy” purse filled with rocks. The manager of the Citadel Haven Circle restaurant followed the pair outside where they jumped into a car registered to a home in Mt. Pleasant. One of the diners seated nearby the couple said the man had a “homemade” tattoo on his arm that read, “My Life is a Time Bomb.”
July 14 | General information
A Hutton Place wife called police after she spied another woman walking around the front of her house. The other woman had left a note on the husband’s car that claimed he owed her $1,500. The wife was interested, as they are reportedly going through a divorce, saying she would like to document it. The husband denied owing the other woman any money, and had stopped payment on a previously written check. The police described the prior incident between the other woman and husband as “extramarital and possibly contractual in nature.”
July 14 | Forgery
A man went into an Orleans Road bank to complain that his wife had been writing checks on his sole account without his permission. The man has been working out of state for the past five months and had asked the bank to send him a checkbook, but the bank apparently sent that checkbook to his Charleston address. The man claimed that his wife wrote unauthorized checks on that account for more than $9,000. The bank confirmed the man was the only one allowed to write checks on the account.
July 14 | Injured party
Police responded to the intersection of Magwood Road and Glenn McConnell Parkway and found a disoriented man walking in and out of traffic with fecal matter running down the back of his pants and shoes. Emergency medical personnel were able to draw blood from the man and found his blood sugar levels were very low. But the man refused treatment and was taken into protective custody.
July 15 | Motor vehicle theft
A Bonieta Harrold Drive woman found that someone had removed the tarps covering her two motorcycles, and cut the ignition wires to one of them, a nearly $5,000 Ninja. The woman also found blood on the front airing of the bike. Police arrived and track the spilled blood as it traveled away from the woman’s house and out toward the street.
July 16 | Aggravated assault with a firearm
Police met with a Juniper Street mom after she claimed her boyfriend pulled a gun on her son. The son and the boyfriend apparently had been embroiled in an argument that escalated when the boy said he was going to get a gun. At that point, the boyfriend announced, “I’m going to show you how to be a man and pull a gun on someone,” and brandished a pistol as the son fled.
July 16 | Theft from a motor vehicle
A man told police through a Spanish translator that while he was dining at a Magwood Drive fast food restaurant, someone had entered his locked truck and made off with his wallet, which had $800 cash in it.
July 16 | Hit and run
Police arrived at the parking lot of an Ashley River Road restaurant and found a Ford Expedition stuck nose-first in a ditch in front of the establishment. No driver or passenger could be found, and the car had a temporary plate from a used car lot. Police did find a silver concrete pole in the parking lot that the SUV had apparently struck before becoming stuck.