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.
 October 12
GENERAL INFORMATION
The apartment complex neighbor of a Parklawn Drive man informed police that the man had become increasingly agitated and convinced that she was peeking in on him while he was naked. When police approached the man, the man said that a “blonde female is really pissing him off and he is going to talk to the management office about it.” Police also noticed all of the man’s appliances were unplugged. Other neighbors report that the man had been “pacing back and forth in the breezeways in a very agitated manner, and is acting unusual. He also makes a great deal of noise at night.” Later, close to midnight, a neighbor complained to police the man was out in the breezeway again, yelling about the “blonde girl was looking at him through the window when he was naked.” The apartments management is considering evicting the man.
October 12
SUICIDE
Police responded to a West Ashley residence after a man reported that his ex-wife may have harmed herself. Police attempted to open the woman’s bedroom door, but heard nothing but a moan from the woman. Fire department personnel got the door open, and found the woman sitting in a chair unresponsive, surrounded by a host of prescription pill bottles and alcohol. The woman whose daughter had passed away last year, was taken to the hospital and was expected to recover.
October 13
SIMPLE ASSAULT
A West Ashley woman told police that her boyfriend had returned home drunk, was punching doors, and threatening to pour poo-laced cat litter on her and her autistic son. Earlier, in a separate incident, the teen had admitted to police that he threw a wallet belonging to his mother’s boyfriend into a nearby lake after an argument. The teen said he went into the man’s bedroom looking for an item, and an argument ensued, that allegedly included the man shoving the teen and trying to hit him. The boyfriend denied allegations of aggression, and said the boy “gets away with any behavior with no consequences” because he is autistic.
October 13
AGGRAVATED ASSAULT
Palmilla Apartments residents reported to police that a group of juvenile males may have shot several rounds from a gun into an apartment. When police arrived, a group of juveniles began to disperse, with one making a run for it. The officers found several bullet holes in one apartment, but were not able to establish who had fired them, and allowed the teens to be turned over to their parents.
October 13
SUICIDE
A Village Square Apartments woman told police that her brother had just stabbed himself in the stomach with a knife for the third time. She said she’d been out shopping when her brother called to say what he’d done, and when she arrived said there was what appeared to be a knife handle sticking out of her brother’s abdomen. The brother suffers from various physical and mental ailments, and had stabbed himself in similar incidents twice before, and had shot himself in the shoulder with a shotgun in the past.
October 13
CRIMINAL DOMESTIC VIOLENCE – SIMPLE ASSAULT
A reportedly physical argument between a Wappoo Road couple, spilled over from their residence and into his job along Savannah Highway. The woman told police they had been fighting over whom she’d been calling on her cellphone, when the man took her phone and assaulted her for not giving him her password. The man kept the phone and left for work, with the woman following behind. Upon arrival, the verbal part of the fight continued, until the man returned home and gathered several personal items and left with their shared children bearing witness.