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.
February 23 | Traffic arrest
A license-less driver attempting to elude police smashed his car into a curb and then a tree off Savage Road, and then attempted to flee on foot into the woods, but was caught within 50 feet. The man said he was trying to elude them because, in part, he was experiencing “relationship issues.” Police had attempted to conduct a traffic stop because of an expired tag, but the man drove slowly through the parking lots of a store of an adjoining apartment complex, before squealing wheels when he got near the exit for the apartment complex.
February 24 | Simple assault
A West Ashley teenager reported an SUV full of schoolmates pulled alongside him on Ashley Gardens Boulevard, when one of the occupants jumped out and began to punch, and grab and push him to the ground. The assailant yelled out, “You want these rounds?”
February 25 | Family offense, non violent
A local woman attempted to legally abandon a baby with the staff of a local hospital she had just given birth to at home. The woman said she didn’t know she had been pregnant, and that the father was a “one-time thing.” A urine test of the woman allegedly found both marijuana and cocaine in her system.
February 25 | Theft from a building
A Robinhood Drive man said someone stole some very expensive jewelry he’d hidden in the closet of his house. Missing were a $2,000 ring with four diamonds totaling 1.5 carats on a 14k band; and a 14k gold necklace with a 14-carat diamond valued at $1,200. The man suspected a relative of stealing the items. One of his children reported the ring being in a Summerville pawnshop near where the relative had lived until recently. The man went to the pawnshop and identified the ring.
February 25 | Simple assault
A man punched his cousin repeatedly in the face after she teased him about being “scared” to talk to another woman. The two were visiting a Savannah Highway pediatrician’s office to pick up shot records of the cousin’s child when they spied another woman. The two chatted about the woman’s nationality, but when the man refused to approach the woman, his cousin said she began to “tease” him. When they got to the cousin’s car, the man acted like he was getting something in the backseat, and then punched his cousin in the face, while her child was crying in its safety seat. The cousin followed the man in the car as went into the neighborhood behind the office.
February 25 | Embezzlement
Management at a Sam Rittenberg Boulevard women’s store told police they had proof of an employee making 27 fraudulent returns for over $2,000 cash over a period of seven to 10 days.
February 25 | Aggravated assault with a knife
A man scratched another man’s midsection with a knife during a fight over a parking space at an Orleans Road bank. Witnesses said the two men exited their vehicle and began yelling, which soon escalated into violence, despite a third man trying to calm the situation. While exchanging blows with each other, one of the men noticed the other man had a knife in his fist, and exclaimed, “Oh, you got a knife.” The man with the knife drove off and the injured man went into the bank, where police met with him. The knife-wielding man soon returned, saying he knew the other man would call the police; and that he pulled out his knife because the other man had threatened him with a gun, and that police needed to search the other car.