Reports taken from Feb. 7 to Feb. 13
You wouldn’t get it
A North Charleston woman on Feb. 13 reported to police that someone had broken into her storage unit on Dorchester Road and stolen more than $2,000 in power tools and $500 in other items, including a full-size mannequin and a set of vehicle headlights. Man, we’re never going to understand modern sculpture art, are we?
Rogue contractor
Charleston police on Feb. 10 reported to a Daniel Island construction site after someone reportedly stole a trailer full of equipment and tools the previous night. Security footage showed two men drove up in a truck, hitched the trailer and drove away with nearly $40,000 in various pieces of construction equipment. Be on the lookout for a new contracting startup, we guess.
Yeah, we’ll keep tabs on this
Mount Pleasant police on Feb. 7 reportedly spoke with a homeless man who claimed to be a former CIA agent who was denied his full retirement due to something with the Taliban. Anyway, he also claimed to have intercepted 3 kilograms of fentanyl from the Russian mafia. Officers told them they didn’t need his services, and the man then asked for some cash for the bus. Talk about changing up the conversation.
A bit of an overreaction
North Charleston police on Feb. 12 engaged in a high-speed pursuit down Rivers Avenue after spotting someone driving on the wrong side of the road. When the suspect refused to pull over, officers got “a good hit” on the vehicle, dislodging a passenger-side wheel. What was all the fuss about? A small amount of weed that officers didn’t even charge the driver for. (But he was arrested for evading police.)
Just rough him up a little
An elderly James Island woman on Feb. 12 told Charleston police that an unknown man punched her car window while she was driving on Fleming Road. She reportedly displayed her handheld stun gun and told the man to get away, and she told police she wanted the report made so they could “find out who he was and scare him.”
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