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.
December 3 
| INJURED PARTY
Police responded to a River Front Drive home where the resident had told a neighbor that people were following her and trying to kill her. The woman’s boss was on the scene and attempting to take the woman to the hospital. The woman initially agreed, but then said God told her not to go. A chaplain and a member of the Mobile Crisis team talked the woman into voluntarily going to a local hospital for help.
December 4 | SHOPLIFTING
Police initially arrested a trio of admitted heroin abusers in a car outside the West Ashley Wal-Mart on a shoplifting charge. A search of one of the three, a man, uncovered a tote bag with more than $350 of unpaid for items. The man said he was “homeless and starving” and that he’d brought the wrong wallet and needed to search the vehicle for the right one. A search of the car uncovered a bevy of syringes, which is not illegal. As such, the other two were eventually released.
December 4 | 
SIMPLE ASSAULT
An Ashley Hall Plantation Road mother called police after her mentally ill son attacked her husband. Her son woke from a nap in a bad mood and began arguing with her and her husband, she said. When her husband demanded, “I know you’re not gonna hit your mother, are you,” her son then hit him the face multiple times with a closed fist and shoved him down a flight of stairs. Her son followed her husband into the parking lot and continued to punch him in the face. The son told police that not only was it he who actually called for help, but this his mother and her husband were constantly verbally abusing him and agitating him.
December 5 | SWINDLE
A manger at a Savannah Highway auto dealership told police that a woman presented a bevy of false identification and financial documents and stole a brand new SUV on a “zero money down” deal. When the ruse was discovered, members of the sales force attempted to contact the woman with no success.
December 5 
| SHOPLIFTING
Police reviewing security camera footage at a Sam Rittenberg Boulevard store observed two females initially stealing 17 items of active wear, including jackets and pants, valued at close to $300. The duo were also taped taking nine pairs of kids pants, valued at $135.
December 5 | I
MPERSONATION
A West Ashley man told police that another man without his permission used his identity to order a brand-new car from a Savannah Highway dealership. The man told police he’d received a call earlier that day from an apologetic employee at the dealership, that “the vehicle he had ordered had come in” and that he was sorry for the process having taken so long. The salesman told police that the man doing the impersonating was “very picky” in his selection.
December 5 
| PORNOGRAPHY/OBSCENE MATERIAL
A student at a West Ashley public school told police that a schoolmate had disseminated a video of the two of them engaged in oral sex. The alleged offending student’s cellphone was confiscated.
 December 5 | 
INTIMIDATION
A Johns Island woman told police she feared for her life from her married lover after she confronted his wife at a West Ashley store with pictures of their affair. The woman showed police text messages that her lover of the past three years sent to a mutual friend: “SHE [redacted] SENT PICS TO MY EX AND ALSO SEVERAL OF MY FRIENDS” …”YOU ME AND HER IN THE PIC.” …. “I’M GONNA KILL HER.” The woman said she didn’t know if her lover was serious in his threat, but wanted a an incident report filed.
December 8 | WEAPON LAW VIOLATIONS
Police arrested 10 juvenile female students at West Ashley High School after an enormous fight broke out. One student shot another student in the face with pepper spray, while other students kicked and stomped other students while they lay on the ground. It took four school staff members and the arrival of police units to break up the fight.