Reports taken from March 17 to March 28
Perfect camouflage
Employees of a North Charleston bar on March 24 told police that a patron was made to leave after causing a scene during which he threw chairs and “stole something.” Police said they found the man hiding in the bushes covering himself with pine straw. Police arrested him, and during the interaction, he “spontaneously” admitted to stealing a glass of beer. He was, unsurprisingly, banned from the bar.
Been a rough few years
Mount Pleasant police on March 21 responded to a call about a man dressed in all black and wrapped in a blanket. He reportedly entered a Coleman Boulevard restaurant while it was closed to “warm up.” While inside, he cracked open a can of beer and told employees that he was going to go to Walmart later to “steal some items.” Explaining sinister plots to helpless bystanders? Sounds like a Bond villain down on his luck.
Several?
A North Charleston couple told city police on March 28 that their granddaughter, who they were taking care of, took an axe from a shed in their backyard and used it to smash the window of home’s side door. The couple told officers there have been “several incidents” in which she gets highly intoxicated and causes “disturbances.” They said they didn’t want to press charges but only wanted to document the incident.
Thoughtful … sort of
Charleston police on March 17 cited a downtown man after they approached him while he was “holding his genitalia and urinating in the street.” He told police there were some “sketchy” people inside the bar, so he decided to go outside and attempt to urinate “down the sewer drain” so as not to bother people on the sidewalk. Um … thanks?
Bad day for Walmart
Unrelated to the earlier entry: Mount Pleasant police received at least three reports of shoplifting from Walmarts on March 20. One elderly suspect began crying after police stopped her from stealing about $150 in merchandise; another ran from the store with a duffel bag and a fuse kit after setting off store alarms; and another told police she was picking up an “online order” that she had no information about.
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