Illustrated by Steve Stegelin

The Blotter is taken from reports filed with Charleston Police Department between Sept. 15 and Sept. 29.

Blotter of the Week: Residents of a downtown apartment were abruptly introduced to their upstairs neighbors when the ceiling caved in, dropping more than a dozen people into the living room. Thatโ€™s one way to bring the party to you.

RUNNERS UP

Probably a prank, but thatโ€™s actually a bomb: A woman in a West Ashley pharmacy drive-thru returned a plastic tube full of fireworks instead of medication, but had forgotten to light the fuses.

A young man was spotted on security footage stealing books from a downtown bookstore. Thereโ€™s some good and bad here โ€” on one hand, stealing is wrong, but on the other, at least kids are reading again.

A West Ashley woman was scammed out of $2,000 by an unknown caller who claimed to be from Amazon. The woman described the caller as having an accent that was โ€œeither Mexican, Indian or Japanese.โ€ Well, that narrows it down.


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