Reports taken from Feb. 22 to March 4
Ye Olde Ordinance
Charleston police on Feb. 22 confiscated a Civil War-era cannon ball from a downtown woman after she found it while gardening in her backyard. Good call, officers. If we had a cannon ball in the office, the temptation to rush it to Fort Moultrie to test the cannons would be far too great to ignore.
Very expensive cardboard
A Mount Pleasant man on Feb. 22 reportedly tried to steal several packs of trading cards from a Mount Pleasant department store by stuffing them into the sleeves of a puffer jacket (also stolen). The value of the cards was determined to be about $112, but since he didn’t open them, the contents could have been a total of $3.50 or over $2,000. There’s just no way to know.
Patience ran out
A drunken College of Charleston student on Feb. 23 couldn’t maintain his footing on the downtown Charleston sidewalks, even with the help of an officer who offered to walk him back to his dorm. When he kept stumbling — into the road, by the way — the officer finally gave up and arrested him for public intoxication.
That’s not going to hold up
North Charleston police on March 4 responded to a Dorchester Road department store where the manager told officers he believed $70 of merchandise had been stolen. No security footage captured, the theft, and the suspect’s vehicle (which the manager described as a black Hyundai) had a tag registered to a Jeep Wrangler out of Hopkins, S.C.
Not quite summer-ready
Two men on Feb. 26 attempted to steal three Yeti coolers from a King Street store with a total value of $825, but the store owner reportedly chased the two men down the street until they dropped the coolers, which were returned to the store. Planning a beach day is difficult enough — adding a heist plan to it just sounds exhausting.
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