Reports taken from Dec. 5 to Dec. 18
Porch piracy
Security footage near Liberty Meadows Drive recorded a North Charleston man on Dec. 5 standing on another man’s porch for about an hour. Eventually, a delivery man approached, and the man spoke with him, took the package for himself, and left. We have to admit: that’s a bold new strategy in porch piracy.
Going for a dip
Mount Pleasant police on Dec. 5 helped a drunken man out of a lake after he apparently stumbled into the backyard of a Ranns Hill Road man, fell into bushes and later into the water. He was arrested for disorderly conduct and trespassing, but the detention center was unable to keep the $100 in various bills found in his pockets — they were too wet.
Oldest trick in the book
A North Charleston woman with a shopping cart full of allegedly stolen goods on Dec. 18 reportedly told responding officers that the items weren’t hers and she was “holding them for a friend.” Yeah, the police didn’t buy it either.
Advice: just take the cab
Charleston police on Dec. 1 woke up a sleeping man at a downtown bar and offered to call him a cab to get home. The man reportedly declined several times, even declining a ride to a hospital due to his level of intoxication. With all other offers declined, police took him into custody instead.
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