Mount Pleasant Police Reports

These items were selected from several hundred Mount Pleasant Police Reports filed between Aug. 3 and Aug. 11.

All charges are pending and accused parties are presumed innocent until proven guilty in court.

Wrong night to get rowdy

A Mount Pleasant man picked the wrong night to cause a disturbance at the Huddle House.

Police reports allege Albert T. Pinckney was cursing and generally acting rude during a 2 a.m. stop at the Huddle House. Unlucky for him an off-duty Mount Pleasant police officer was also having breakfast there.

When Huddle House employees tried to toss Pinckney and his friend from the restaurant, he got even louder. That’s when the off-duty cop intervened and identified himself as a police officer. That caused Pinckney to get even louder, and he allegedly raised a hand to the officer.

The officer used several techniques on Pinckney and eventually brought the man to the ground. Pinckney was later booked into the Charleston County Jail.

Rocky start to cruise

Mount Pleasant police probably ruined this woman’s vacation, but they did manage to catch a suspect for whom they had been searching for months.

Talley Smith had warrants for petit larceny and financial transaction card fraud, and when she tried to board Carnival Fantasy, port police spotted the woman. They contacted Mount Pleasant police, who responded to arrest the woman.

So rather than sipping fruity drinks on the lido deck, Smith was booked into the Charleston County Jail.

Retail employee arrested

An employee of Dollar General on Johnnie Dodds Blvd. was arrested August 3 after the store manager uncovered more than $800 in fraudulently returned items, according to police reports.

Nicky N. Osborne faces charges of swindling and breach of trust after police allege she allowed her boyfriend to return dozens of items under a false name without proof that the items were ever purchased from the Dollar General.

The boyfriend, Nicholas Hettrick, also faces charges of obtaining goods by false pretenses for his part in the operation, according to reports.

Slick police work reunites GPS and owner

Items stolen from parked cars are often considered lost forever, but Mount Pleasant police did some clever work to track down both suspect and victim involved in a recent car break-in.

Police already suspected Cleveland Major of being involved in auto break-ins, so when they saw in a pawn shop database that he had pawned a GPS in North Charleston, they started checking.

An officer called the pawn shop, and an employee there searched the device for “favorite” locations saved on the device. From that, they found the victim’s daughter in Jackson, Ga.

Sure enough, a few weeks ago, the victims had their car broken into while visiting Mount Pleasant. Police retrieved the GPS, and soon it will be returned to the rightful owners.