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.
March 22
Recovered stolen vehicle
Police stopped a teacher from a private day school driving the school’s bus near the intersection of Savannah Highway and Dobbin Road. Police told the teacher that the plates on the bus were stolen from a 2005 Jeep.
March 22
Burglary, breaking & entering
A man told police that someone broke into his Savannah Highway storage unit and removed more than $4,500 in auto paint. Police found signs of forced entry.
March 23
Missing person
Police filed a missing person report after a 14-year-old West Ashley boy ran away from officers into woods near his girlfriend’s home. Earlier, the boy had refused to get out of bed at his home to attend alternative school, and attacked his stepfather with a skateboard. He then left on foot, and was later tracked to the girl’s Dogwood Road home. When the girlfriend told police he wasn’t there and they were welcome to come in and check, an officer noticed the boy running down the street.
March 23
Theft from a
motor vehicle
A man left his truck overnight at a Savannah Highway auto dealership for repairs with his $6,000 Yamaha Banshee ATV in the bed of the truck. The next morning the man returned and found the ATV missing; surveillance camera showed several unknown men removing the ATV from the bed and rolling it out of camera view.
March 24
Criminal domestic violence
A woman returned to the Somerset Circle home of her husband to retrieve some of her items. She knocked on the door, and he let her in. She proceeded to the master bedroom, and when she got there she saw another woman, scantily clad, “duck out of the way.” The woman said she recognized the woman as her husband’s new girlfriend. At that point, the woman said her husband grabbed her face and neck from behind, causing her to scream. When police arrived, the woman said she already lived somewhere else and would soon be filing for divorce.
March 24
General information
Police responded to a report of a man urinating in public on Ashley Hall Plantation Road. When they arrived on the scene, they interviewed a man matching the description from the report. The man was fidgeting, incoherent, tearing paper into small pieces, and unable to make a complete sentence. The man walked into the roadway several times, and then sat down on the ground and began to cry. Police took the man to the hospital.
March 24
Criminal domestic violence
A contract worker at a Sam Rittenberg Boulevard apartment complex heard a woman screaming for help from inside one of the units where the blinds had been torn down from inside. When he asked what was going on, a man’s voice called out that everything “is good in here.” The worker soon returned with the manager of the complex, and the two saw a woman trying to escape out the back window of the unit. The manager used a key to enter the unit and allow the woman to go outside and call police, who found bruises and cuts all over the woman’s body and arrested the man, who is also the father of the woman’s child.
March 24
Family offense, non-violent
Police accompanied a state social services worker to a Parsons Cor residence to conduct an inspection warrant. When they arrived at the residence, there were no adults on premises and the front door was half open, with a juvenile sitting on a couch. The juvenile would not respond to the worker or the officer, so the two entered the residence and found a huge mess. Clothes and trash covered the floor, and there was a pile of close to 60 soda bottles in a pile on the floor. The mother arrived 50 minutes later with two more juveniles in tow, and the father soon after. The social worker decided all the children needed to be removed to the home of another family member until the residence was sanitary.