Mount Pleasant police on Nov. 1 pulled over a man after he was thought to have stolen a package of ham and a cupcake from a Ben Sawyer Boulevard grocery store. The man admitted to the theft, but the store manager told officers that he didn’t want to press charges — but just wanted to ban him from the store. We think that might, ahem, take the cake for dumbest items to get banned from a store.
The list goes on
Charleston police on Oct. 24 arrested a downtown man for public intoxication after he checked off just about every box you can think of – short of downing a bottle of vodka in front of the officer. According to a police report, he was wearing a paper bracelet from a downtown bar, slurring and swaying. And he was unable to tell officers where he was or where he was going. Oh, and he was caught on video urinating out of the open door of an Uber. Is there such a thing as a five-fecta?
Caught in 4K
A North Charleston man on Oct. 30 allegedly stole an e-bike from a Dorchester Road store. According to a police report, he was caught on camera using bolt cutters to remove the bike from its rack, ditched the cutters (also caught on camera and later recovered) and rode away (you guessed it: caught on camera). The investigation is ongoing. Hey, man, at least they got your good side.
Pretty open and shut
North Charleston police on Halloween night stopped to check on a woman who appeared to be passed out in her vehicle on Rivers Avenue. When officers knocked on the window, she woke up and threw her hands up in the air holding her license and a small baggie of what she said was fentanyl. Police tested the substance, and sure enough, it was fentanyl. No arrests were made, though.
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A Mount Pleasant man on Oct. 29 reportedly dug through trash cans and “rifled through” trash bags at three different houses along Ringsted Lane before continuing on to Worthington Drive, where he stopped at “several more” homes, according to a report. The man only ended his spree when he noticed the reporting officer “watching him.” Officer? What do you mean, just watching?
Reports taken from Oct. 24 to Nov. 1
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