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.
March 29
Vandalism
A man threw his body against the moving car containing his two children, shattering the rear window and spraying the kids with glass in a Sam Rittenberg Boulevard parking lot. The man had ridden in the car with his children’s mother, and the two got into a verbal fight that escalated into her throwing some of his personal items out the window. As the car drove of, the man hurled himself at the window, stopping the car, whereupon he got in the car and began driving it to the kids’ grandparents home, and then returned to the parking lot to meet with police. The grandparents later reported they were not aware of the kids being dropped off; as such they were allowed to run around without adult supervision.
March 29
Wire Fraud
Officers responded to a Fenwick Drive residence after a woman complained she’d been defrauded of over $32,000 over two years. The woman, who lives in Utah, said she’d ordered a package be delivered to her home in Utah from France two years ago. Soon after, a caller on the phone said she had to pay “airport tax,” which she paid, and continued to pay in differing amounts for the next two years. She drove down from Utah to a non-existent Ripley Point Drive address to get to the bottom of the issue. Police were able to partially track the bank account that the money had been sent to.
March 29
Intimidation
A Trailmore Drive woman reported that her ex-boyfriend had been repeatedly calling and threatening her in an obsessive manner. While interviewing the woman, the officer noted the ex-boyfriend called eight times. The officer told the man to stop contacting the woman, and further noted that he had called the woman 46 times over the previous two days.
March 30
Assisting Other Agencies
Police responded to a Roustabout Way address after the resident called five times that day to complain about suspicious incidents. When they arrived, the found the resident living in a home without electricity or running water, and having not taken her medicine in some time. She was complaining about items of no worth repeatedly being stolen from her home, like business cards. Officers reported the woman was also having delusions about her pets, and had the woman put into protective medical custody.
March 30
Assisting Other Agencies
A woman called police to report that the father of her children, a wanted man, could be found in the drive-thru line of a Sam Rittenberg Boulevard fast-food restaurant. Police tracked the man, who had an active warrant for a contempt of court charge, to a nearby corner and arrested him.
March 30
Theft From A Building
A guest at a Savannah Highway motel reported $400 cash was missing from an envelope that had contained $35,000. The man said he had just sold his truck for cash, and that several boxes of rare collectors coins were also missing. Management at the motel had no record of his room’s door being opened during the time the man said the crime had to have taken place.
March 30
Intimidation
A Bluewater Way man called to complain that the boyfriend of one of his female co-workers had been calling and threatening to “beat his ass” over allegations that he’d had sexual relations with the woman in the model unit of a nearby apartment complex. The man denied any knowledge of what the boyfriend was talking about.
March 30
Attempted suicide
Police responded to a Dogwood Road residence where a woman was threatening to end her life with a handgun in a car. Officers told the woman to put the gun down and exit the vehicle, which she did. The woman, who has a history of depression and counseling, had apparently cut herself four times earlier that day. The woman is also apparently going through a divorce and had been recently fired from a job.