Mug Shots

December 26 Simple assault
Police responded to a call from a Crull Drive residence that three men had attacked a man and a woman in their home, and one had threatened to go get a gun. When an officer arrived at the residence, a vehicle with paper tags pulled up at a high rate of speed, and a man jumped out of it and began to rush to the locked front door. The officer told the man not to attempt to enter the residence, but the man persisted, and was soon handcuffed and placed in the back of a cruiser, saying, “Y’all are stopping me from doing something really stupid.” It was soon determined the man lived there and was the victim, and was then released. The man’s wife told police an old friend had come over and he and her husband began to argue which escalated and became physical, and was capped off by the old friend throwing a cinder block into the center of their living room table. The husband repeatedly told the police to get off his property, and that he’d handle it.
December 26 General information
A juvenile apparently released a short burst of pepper spray from his mother’s canister during an after-Christmas sale at a Sam Rittenberg Boulevard store. Several customers and one employee were affected. When the officer arrived, the mother and child had gone to another store to get a new shirt, as the boy had sprayed himself. When they returned, the officer determined the incident was an accident and asked the mother to keep better control of her sprayer.
December 30 Simple assault
A Ravenel Bridge Road man told police that his roommate pushed him out of the home they share because he didn’t have money to pay due bills, and was not allowing him back into the residence. The man said he went around to the back of the residence and broke out the window to his bedroom to gain entry, but was thwarted by his roommate, who pushed him outside and hit him with a lawnmower blade and threatened to “grab his gun and shoot him.” The roommate denied hitting the man with a blade or threatening his life, but said the man was routinely late with money for bills. Police allowed the roommate to gather his belongings.
December 30 Theft from
a building
An Ortega Drive man alleged that his former employee used a spare key to gain entrance to his family home, eat his food and drink $200 of beer and whiskey, and drive his wife’s car without permission. When the couple returned home from a vacation, the wife found her car covered in mud, down a quarter tank of gas, and big dirty work boot prints in what had been their professionally cleaned house, as well as toilet clogged with “defecation.”
December 30 Simple assault
Police were dispatched to a bus stop on Charlie Hall Boulevard after one man repeatedly hit another man with his belt. According to a witness, one of the men referred to the belter with a racial epithet, causing the belter to exclaim, “Man, I don’t believe you’re doing me like that, you won’t sit next time, I gave you bus fare the other day … he said he liked Barack Obama and was from the Chicago area and liked black people.” The man then took off his belt and hit the man two times with it, and then later once, in the face.
December 30 Simple assault
A Hillside Drive trailer park man attempted to greet his neighbor as the neighbor returned home. The neighbor did not acknowledge his greeting, and the man, apparently smelling strongly of alcohol, began to set off a series of fireworks between their trailers. The neighbor came out and a scuffled ensued which ended when the man pushed his neighbor’s back into a trailer. When asked for his side of the story by police, the man said he was frustrated his neighbor never acknowledges him when he’s coming and going from the other trailer.
December 30 General information
A manager at a Sam Rittenberg Boulevard store reported that a man attempting to purchase over $180 in merchandise and gift cards had to give him a second credit card because the first one he used was denied. The second one was accepted, but when the employee tried to reconcile the man’s identification with the name on the card, the man ran out of the store and jumped into a 2014 Mercedes Benz sedan and drove off. When the manager returned to the store, the phone rang and the person said their credit card had just been used without permission at his store.