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.
November 2 | All other larceny
A manager at a renovating Old Towne Road restaurant told police that she believed a man in a truck had taken three of it’s metal chefs tables from where they had been placed by employees as they cleaned the restaurant. Later, when the cook spotted the truck, he approached its driver and said, “What is your name? You stole our tables, I need those tables back.” The suspect refused to give his name, but said he had already sold them for scrap. The manager told the man he had until tomorrow to return the tables or she was calling the police, and wrote down the truck’s license plate number. The next day, the man in the truck was seen in the back of the business yet again, so the manager took a picture of the driver and called police.
November 2 | All other offenses
A young female employee at a S. Windermere Boulevard store told police that a man who’d been coming into the store repeatedly to harass her, had come by that day dressed up as the killer from the Scream movie franchise.” The employee had the man’s cellphone number, as the two had earlier in the year texted each other messages. When the woman discontinued the electronic messaging, the man began showing up.
November 3 | Aggravated assault
A woman shot loss prevention staff with pepper spray when they asked to see her purse outside a Sam Rittenberg Boulevard store. The purse was allegedly full of stolen items. Earlier, staff watched the woman and two other females go into the infant section, and as one of them would distract an employee, the woman would put items into her purse. Stopped outside the store, the woman refused to surrender her purse. When staffers attempted to wrestle the purse away from the woman, she pulled out the spray and spritzed a staffer on the neck and hair with it. The woman abandoned the purse and jumped with her friends into a blue Impala, and sped away. The total value of the five items in the purse: $77. A state picture ID of a man was also found inside the purse.
November 3 | General information
A Savannah Highway motel received a threatening letter similar in tone to several letters received at area accommodations this week. The letter stated in part, “And for my next great work … well you choose, Burn [sic] a mosque/muslim, hang a Jew, behead a hispanic.” Another letter arrived at a different hotel saying there will “be no escape when he is near. I am doing God’s work,” and then threatened people of the Jewish faith. A third note arrived at yet another accommodation, presaging similar actions.
November 3 | Assisting other agencies
Police responded to a missing person complaint at a Savannah Highway motel about a man who has apparently disappeared from other southern cities recently. The man had told his boss the day before he wasn’t feeling well and was going by a doctor’s office. The employer drove to the motel to check on the man, but he was not there, though his belongings were. The doctor’s office had no record of the man, and a records check with police turned up no files, except that he had already been listed as missing in Savannah.
November 3 | Forgery, counterfeit
An employee at a Savannah Highway check-cashing business told police that they had accepted and cashed five checks for more than $2,000 total from the same account that were all fraudulent. The checks had been passed to the business two weeks prior, and had messages written on them like, “For landscaping,” and “For labor performed.” The owner of the account said he had not used that account in over two years.
November 3 | Using a vehicle without consent
A Parsons Corner woman told police that her live-in boyfriend had taken two of her vehicles without her permission. The boyfriend had borrowed her car to pick up his brother on Rivers Avenue because he was stranded there. Early the next day, her boyfriend returned by city bus, without the truck, saying it had run out of gas along Meeting Street. Once home, he began working on the brakes and tires of a second car so the woman could have a car to go to work in. Soon, the boyfriend and the second car were gone. An hour before the woman called police, the boyfriend called her, yelling, about needing a tow truck