Mount Pleasant Police Reports

These items were selected from several hundred Mount Pleasant Police Reports filed between Aug. 3 and Aug. 16.

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

Brought a gun to a dog fight

A Mount Pleasant man faces an aggravated assault charge after police allege he pulled a gun on his brother in a dispute over a dog bite.

It happened Sunday afternoon when Christopher Cloer’s brother confronted him about his dog, which had reportedly attacked the brother’s child. When threats were made about the dog, Cloer grabbed his shotgun.

Cloer “retrieved a shotgun from his residence and pointed it at (his brother), while he was holding his child,” the police incident report reads. “Christopher threatened to shoot (the brother) if he touched his dog.”

Soon, though, the brothers put down their guns and children and opted to settle the dispute with their fists, the report states.

Police arrested Christopher Cloer and charged him with two counts of aggravated assault.

Those are some bad tires

Police spotted a disabled motorist on U.S. Hwy. 17 around 3 a.m. Sunday. The female driver told police she had blown a tire.

Kerri Taimanglo blamed the poor quality of her tires, but police saw evidence that she had struck the curb, and they reportedly believed she was “intoxicated,” according to the report. Since she wasn’t driving when police arrived, they just drove her home.

The following morning, around 1 a.m., police again saw Taimanglo and she had flattened a second tire, and there was again evidence she had struck the curb, police wrote. This time, the cops weren’t so forgiving. They arrested her for DUI.

Turns out, Taimanglo had been assisted by police three times previously for flat tires during early morning patrols. Taimanglo insisted she had simply purchased bad tires back in December.

Scary discovery in hotel room

Maids at the Red Roof Inn on Johnnie Dodds Boulevard were startled when they discovered blood drops and stains all over a room last week.

Then, written on a wall in blood, someone had scrawled “HELP ME POLICE PLEASE.”

Officers scrambled to find the woman who had rented the room, even issuing a missing and endangered person’s report and contacting the woman’s mother in another town.

Later in the day, the 51-year-old woman turned up at the hotel. She told officers that she often cut herself to deal with the pain of a bad childhood. She insisted she wasn’t suicidal.

Officers later issued an arrest warrant for interference with officers and employees, a town ordinance violation. When police returned to the hotel to serve the woman, she had already checked out and was unable to be located.

Sign that kid up for the UFC

A 19-year-old Mount Pleasant teen told officers he had just won big at a poker game last week when he decided to count his winnings on the front porch of a Venning Road home.

About that time, a juvenile, whose age and name was not specified by police, approached the 19-year-old and started hassling the young man. He pushed the younger boy away and turned his attention to his cell phone.

Then, just out of the blue, the younger boy delivered a single blow to the 19-year-old’s left eye. The punch broke the other teen’s eye socket, his eyelid was cut and he had bleeding inside the eye.

It’s no laughing matter, but someone ought to find that juvenile’s name and sign him up for boxing lessons. He needs a more positive channel for that tremendous right hook. First, he will have to sort out the criminal simple assault charges have against him.

Untrustworthy masseuse

If you can’t trust a masseuse hired from an online website that specializes in adult services, who can you trust?

A London man, who was staying at a local hotel, told police he just wanted an early morning massage from an unknown woman, but the lady took her money while he was in the bathroom and never delivered on her promised services.

Police told the man, whose name was not listed in the report, that there was nothing criminal about the woman not actually giving the massage. It was a civil matter, and he needed to handle getting back his $100 on his own.