Police Blotter: Sept. 6 - 14, 2011

The blotter is compiled from incident and arrest reports filed by the City of Charleston Police Department and the Charleston County Sheriff's Office in the West Ashley area, which includes ZIP codes 29407 and 29414. Persons charged with a crime are innocent until proven guilty.

Uninvited Couch Crasher

CHARLESTON - The sound of male voices outside his window woke up a Windemere Boulevard resident around 1:30 a.m. Sunday, Sept. 11, according to a Charleston Police report.

When he investigated the source of the voices he found a man on his porch who then proceeded to open the sliding glass back door. At that point the resident called 911 and escaped with his family through a bedroom window.

When police arrived they found the intruder asleep on the couch. He told officers a friend dropped him off at the house, told him it belonged to another friend, and that he could sleep there because the man was too drunk to go home. Officers instead provided the man with a bunk in jail on a trespassing charge, according to the report.

Cooper Thief Leaves Grocer Hot Under the Collar

CHARLESTON - Around 6 a.m. Saturday Sept. 10, someone removed about 200 feet of 1 and 3/8 in. copper tubing from the roof of the Food Lion on Ashley Crossing Drive, according to a Charleston Police Department report.

The tubing carried the coolant to all of the grocer's refrigeration units which began to fail around 6:45 that morning. Store employees were alerted to the problem by the computer that monitors the refrigeration units and sent someone up to find out why all of the units had stopped working.

The copper tubing is valued at about $400, but the cost of the food that spoiled because of a lack of refrigeration is thousands of dollars, the report stated. According to the report the only way to access the store roof is through a back stockroom and no one had worked in the store overnight.

Fire Station Fun Lands Woman in Jail

CHARLESTON - "So I wanted to have some fun with the firefighters, shoot me," a woman told a Charleston Police officer after he arrested her for disorderly conduct at the Charleston Fire Department station on Old Towne Road Tuesday, Sept. 13 around 10 p.m.

According to the incident report documenting the arrest, the woman narrowly missed colliding with the flag pole in front of the fire station and left her car blocking one of the fire engines while she engaged the firefighters in a colorful conversation.

Saying she had run out of gas, allegedly for the second time that day, she waited at the station for AAA to bring her some fuel and in the meantime told the firefighters she wanted some sausage, and asked "if they had short and thick or long and skinny sausages?" She went on to ask them to drop their pants and told them she wanted to "do cocaine," the report states.

The Firefighters told the officer they were concerned for the woman's safety.

One Wheel Short of a Full Set

CHARLESTON - Between 5 p.m. Sept. 3 and 9 a.m. Sept. 6, someone stole three wheels off of a BMW 328i at Azalea Motors on Savannah Highway, according to a Charleston County Sheriff's Office report. The wheels are 16-inch BMW factory rims and the tires are 16-inch Definity Tires and together are valued at $500 each.

Charleston Police

Monique Pringle, on Sept. 14, 2011, charged with public intoxication.

Robert K. Jenkins on Sept. 14, 2011, charged with loitering and open container.

Shannon Sims, 29, on Sept. 14, 2011, charged with driving under suspension, misrepresenting identity to law enforcement and an outstanding Dorchester County Sheriff's Office warrant for driving under suspension.

Terrence Smith, on Sept. 14, 2011, charged with criminal domestic violence.

Jennifer Horne, on Sept. 13, 2011, charged with disorderly conduct.

Thomas Buckler, on Sept. 13, 2011, charged with driving under suspension.

Bahia Deas, on Sept. 12, 2011, charged with distribution of cocaine base and two outstanding Charleston Police warrants for distribution of cocaine base.

Shannon Gore, on Sept. 12, 2011, charged with shoplifting.

John Tisdale, 58, on Sept. 11, 2011, charged with criminal domestic violence, simple possession of marijuana and possession of drug paraphernalia.

Herbert Pompey, 70, on Sept. 10, 2011, charged with lewd exposure of private parts.

Brad Szego, 31, on Sept. 9, 2011, charged with driving under suspension.

Arthur Robinson, on Sept. 9, 2011, charged with criminal domestic violence.

Katherine Moore, on Sept. 8, 2011, charged with possession of a controlled substance and possession of marijuana.

Johnathan Smalls, on Sept. 8, 2011, charged with an outstanding Charleston Police Department bench warrant.

Robert K. Jenkins, 31, on Sept. 8, 2011, charged with public drunk.

Jason Gaddy, on Sept. 8, 2011, charged with an outstanding Spartanburg County Sheriff's Office warrant for fraud.

Joseph Lamart Simmons, 36, on Sept. 7, 2011, charged with possession of cocaine base.

Ebony Davis, on Sept. 7, 2011, charged with property crime enhancement.

Bruce Brown, on Sept. 7, 2011, charged with shoplifting.

Charleston County Sheriff's Office

John M. Mooney, 22, on Sept. 12, 2011, charged with disorderly conduct and malicious damage to property.

Tiffany Elaina Craven, 32, on Sept. 11, 2011, charged with public disorderly conduct and open container.

Elonda Washington Kinloch, 36, on Sept. 11, 2011, charged with DUI and no insurance.

Antonio Gathers, 28, on Sept. 9, 2011, charged with an outstanding Family Court bench warrant.

John Michael Hughes, 41, on Sept. 8, 2011, charged with an outstanding Magistrate Court bench warrant.

Ramon Tyree Brown, 30, on Sept. 8, 2011, charged with an outstanding Family Court bench warrant.

David Michael Wigger, 25, on Sept. 8, 2011, charged with an outstanding Goose Creek Police Department bench warrant.

William Gordon Ward, Jr., 35, on Sept. 8, 2011, charged with an outstanding bench warrant.

Darryl Charles White, 20, on Sept. 7, 2011, charged with petit larceny.

George Young, Jr., 36, on Sept. 7, 2011, charged with fugitive from justice.

Jahmal Dante Holmes, 24, on Sept. 7, 2011, charged with an outstanding Family Court bench warrant.

Tyrone Christopher King, 23, on Sept. 7, 2011, charged with an outstanding Family Court bench warrant.

Jermaine Antwan Wright, 30, on Sept. 6, 2011, charged with an outstanding Family Court bench warrant.

Duane Bright, 35, on Sept. 6, 2011, charged with an outstanding Family Court bench warrant.