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 out to protect the innocent. All suspects are  innocent until proven guilty … of course.
September 22
General information
A father and his son were riding bikes in a wooded area off E. Estates Boulevard when they encountered an “intoxicated and delusional” woman in the woods. The woman had matted blonde hair and was known to police from previous arrests. The father reported seeing three to four men hurrying out of the woods earlier in the evening.
September 22
Larceny by false pretenses
An Orleans Road bank told police they lost $40,000 in a series of bank transactions involving one of its customers. An employee of the bank told police that a man deposited a $51,000 bank check at the branch, and then wrote a check for $40,000 to another party. But the deposited check, drawn on an account with another bank, came back as having insufficient funds.
September 24
Criminal domestic violence
A Bonieta Harrold Drive woman told police that her live-in boyfriend bit her arm as he awoke from a bout of drinking. When the woman returned home for supper, her boyfriend was passed out on the couch. When he woke two hours later, and tried to find his glasses, he tripped over furniture and flew into a rage, breaking phones and several doors in the apartment. When confronted by police about the bite mark on her arm, the woman said she didn’t want the incident to ruin her boyfriend’s life. Police arrested the boyfriend.
September 24
All other offenses
Police observed a man carrying a cardboard sign and accepting items handed to him from cars at the corner of Folly Road and U.S. Hwy. 17. When approached by police, the man became irate, and said he couldn’t afford a $1,092 fine, referencing the recently passed no-panhandling ordinance. Police noted they hadn’t even brought up the ordinance to the man, and he already knew the fine.
September 24
Shoplifting
Police arrested a man and a wife at a Sam Rittenberg Boulevard grocery store after viewing surveillance tape. The video shows the man holding up a piece of cardboard so as to obscure from view his wife stuffing meat into her purse. The two were seen on tape leaving the store without paying for the meat in her purse.
September 24
Credit card fraud
A Summer Rain Road woman told police that she had lent her Lane Bryant charge card to a friend with the understanding that the friend would only purchase a single item with it. According to the woman, her friend kept the card and ran up a $500-plus tab on it. The friend wouldn’t initially respond to the woman’s calls and texts, but eventually sent the card back in the mail, but reportedly hadn’t paid any of the money back.
September 24
Burglary
The owner of a Jenkins Road business reported someone had stolen a cash box from the premises with close to $250 he’d collected for church fundraisers. The man found the window open, and the front door locked. 
September 24
Motor vehicle theft
A Woodmere Road woman reported that someone had stolen from outside her home a pickup she had rented. The morning the truck went missing, the woman said she couldn’t find the keys to it and had her son drive her to work. She returned a few hours later to retrieve the keys and return the truck, but it was gone. Authorities later found the truck in North Charleston, after it had been involved in a chase from sheriff’s deputies.