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.
January 11 Intimidation
A Dorothy Drive woman told police that she feared for her safety after her ex-boyfriend threatened to physically harm her. The woman played a recording of the man saying that people were “trying to save face. I’m cut her face all the [redacted] up. Watch when I get over there, I’m not playing … ” The man admitted to police having made those statements and was instructed not to contact the woman again.
January 12 Shoplifting
Police arrested a woman at the West Ashley Circle Wal-Mart for allegedly attempting to steal 52 items valued at nearly $400 from the megastore. When store security approached the woman, she allegedly had several bras peeking out from her clothing. When asked why she did it, the woman said, “I took them because I needed stuff, and my son needed stuff … I broke the law, it’s wrong, I know.”
January 12
Theft from building
Employees at a Savannah Highway charity store noticed a cash envelope containing close to $3,000 was missing from the office. They also reported seeing a man loitering around the store and then emerging from an employees-only area, and then leave quickly in an SUV before the money was discovered missing.
January 13
Drug violation
Twelve officers entered a Hazelworth Drive apartment in an apparent raid and discovered 59 rounds of .45-caliber ammunition in a sock in one of the bedrooms. In addition, they also found 19 rounds of .45-caliber ammunition, and a small amount of marijuana.
January 13
General information
A West Ashley woman told police that she believed her out-of-state ex-husband had violated a court-ordered no-contact order by sending her this message on Facebook: “I wish you … the best in life. May people in your life never know the truth.” Police reviewed the order, which they found didn’t specifically include Facebook messages.
January 14
Intimidation
Employees at a Savannah Highway doctors’ practice reported the father of a patient threatened to “shoot the place up” if his child, suffering with a 104-degree temperature, wasn’t seen as soon as possible. “When my wife gets there, my baby better be seen as soon as they walk through the door or I’m going to come up there and shoot the [redacted] place up.” When police contacted the man, he denied making the threats, and said that his wife had taken their child to another doctor.
January 14
Found property
A man discovered a brand new $2,700 air-conditioning unit in the backyard of his 5th Avenue property that had been stolen three days earlier from a neighboring home. “I’m working on this house and don’t stay here, but I come by daily to check the property. When I walked in the backyard, I saw a brand new AC unit that I know wasn’t mine, and I didn’t want anything to do with it, so I called y’all.”
January 14
Intimidation
A West Ashley woman met with police after receiving what she felt was a threatening text message from a family member with violence issues. The woman first became concerned when she was informed that her sibling had applied for a loan, but had put down her telephone number on the application. She sent a message to her sibling’s cellphone that she didn’t have permission to do that. In return, she received a message that read: “Txt my mom one more time n we gonna have a problem auntie.” The woman believes the phone is in the hands of one of her sibling’s children, who has “violent tendencies.”