Mug Shots

January 19
Larceny by false pretenses
A young couple from France found themselves without a place to stay after the “Airbnb” apartment they had rented for several days on Verdier Boulevard was padlocked on their arrival. After checking into a local motel, they met with police and returned to the apartment the next day, whereupon a neighbor assessing the situation said, “’Tim’ did it again.”
January 20
Injured party
Police responded to a call for service at a Savannah Highway motel to find a man still had IV catheters in his arm. The man had been recently released from a local hospital. One witness said the man had told his wife that he wanted to “shoot drugs” into the IVs. Later, police responded to another spot in West Ashley where the man, apparently distraught and homeless, had walked into traffic in front of his kids. State child welfare officials had been called to investigate.
January 20
General information
A man called police from a West Ashley pawnshop, and said that two other men were attempting to sell his stolen high-end riding lawnmower. When police arrived, they followed the men in traffic as they towed the mower on a trailer behind their truck. After the officer triggered his lights for them to pull over, the men pulled into a nearby parking lot, but when the officer exited his cruiser, the two men roared off. Returning to the pawnshop, the general manager said she had refused to purchase the mower because the men showed no knowledge of its workings or brand, tipping her off to it possibly having been stolen.
January 21
Drugs violations
City police officers accompanied U.S. Marshal Fugitive Task Force members discovered more than 17 pounds of marijuana in a Westchase Drive apartment while serving a warrant. Officers and marshals found 14 pounds in on one bedroom closet, and 3 pounds in another closet. They also found several firearms, including a 9mm handgun and a .40-caliber pistol, as well as a digital scale and more than $3,500 in cash.
January 21
Criminal domestic violence
A Pebble Road woman said her neighbor had texted her, and asked her to call the police anonymously after her boyfriend “put his phone up my nose.” The neighbor soon texted back, and said not to call police, that it was all her fault. When police arrived, no one would come to the door for 10 minutes, and when the neighbor answered the door, she was wet and clad only in a towel. Officers walked her back to her bathroom, where they found the door locked, and a man inside. The man gave a false name, and said he was unemployed. But later when his real name was recorded, it came to light that he was a consultant for a local public school district. The woman said that the argument that allegedly led to her assault was because she had misplaced the cable internet television interface.
January 21
Breaking & entering
A Hazelwood Drive mother of two reported that the father of one of her daughters had broken into her apartment through a spare bedroom window, saying, “I’m coming in.” The man had been banging on the door, and the back bedroom window where she slept with her children. When she saw the man in the hall, the mother ran outside and called police, prompting the man to exit the window he entered and flee in a van with out-of-state plates.
January 22
Intimidation
Police responded to complaints from a West Ashley couple that they were being intimidated and threatened if they didn’t move out of their home. They had received a series of threatening phone messages and letters at their home and West Ashley business. The wife said her husband had been convicted 25 years ago of an aggravated assault and had to list himself as a sexual offender. One message read, “Love thy neighbor … and MOVE! We hate Rapists … or your life is.” Another one read, “We know and hate you,” and was signed with the initials of their neighborhood association. A third letter listed the name of every member of the couple’s extended family, as well as the name of their pet dog. One phone message they received was a deep male voice saying, “I’m going to harm you, you need to move right away.”