CHARLESTON POLICE BLOTTER

Wedding reception ended by gunshots

Gunshots fired during a wedding reception triggered chaos when about 100 vehicles tried to leave at the same time, according to a Charleston County Sheriff's Office report.

Deputies were called to a Hollywood-area park May 14 after someone reported that shots were fired and a man was on the ground. The first arriving deputy wrote that his path to the park was blocked by about "100 vehicles all trying to leave the scene," according to the report.

After exiting his car, the deputy spoke to a woman who identified herself as a relative of the bride. She said she heard just one shot and that no one was injured. The woman said the family "just needed help clearing out the crowd of people who showed up uninvited," the report says.

A man who works at the park showed up a time later and told the deputy that 10 to 15 shots were fired, according to the report.

Man pays ransom to get laptop back

Someone stole a Summerville man's laptop computer and demanded $75 for its return, according to a Charleston police report.

The 56-year-old man told police May 13 that his $700 computer was taken from his car while it was parked downtown May 6.

Two days later, someone called the man and told him the laptop would be returned for $75, the report says.

The man and the caller met at a prearranged site May 13, and cash was paid to a man on a mo-ped, who then departed and returned with the computer, the report says.

Police questioned people in the area to see if anyone who witnessed the transaction knew the man on the mo-ped. The man was given a case number, the report says.

Mom hard to contact after son's arrest

The mother of a 16-year-old who was arrested at school for the second time this school year told an officer who asked why she took so long to respond to phone calls that "the school only calls about dumb (expletive)," according to a Charleston police report.

A school resource officer responded May 13 to a disturbance in a classroom, the report says. The officer told everyone to sit down, and after they did, one student

"began drumming on the wall very loudly." The student was told to go to the Behavior Intervention Room and then told to stop and wait for the officer to accompany him, the report says.

The officer "had to physically restrain" the teen, who then tried to push the officer, causing a disturbance in which teachers came out to the hallway, the report says. The student "tossed his books to the ground, indicating he was going to use his hands to attack" the officer, the report says.

Following a further altercation in which the student refused to enter an office, he was charged with disrupting school and released to the custody of an adult relative, the report says.

Both the officer and school officials made numerous calls to the boy's mother, who did not respond immediately. When finally contacted, the mother was irate about not being notified sooner, the report says.

Missing phone leads to arrest on warrant

A Wadmalaw Island woman whose girlfriend accused her of stealing her cellphone ended up behind bars even though the theft apparently never took place, according to a Charleston County Sheriff's Office report.

The cellphone was found in a couch cushion shortly after a deputy arrived at the women's home around 12:30 a.m. May 16.

The deputy arrested the 23-year-old after a dispatcher advised him that a warrant for her was on file, the report says.

She was turned over to North Charleston police, who had issued the warrant, the report says.

These news items are taken from selected incident reports from Charleston police, the Folly Beach Public Safety Department and the Charleston County Sheriff's Office.