POLICE BLOTTER
Baby offered for sale on Web?
A Summerville woman called police July 27 after seeing a baby for sale on Craigslist.org, an advertising Web site. A Mount Pleasant police officer checked it out and found that the ad was posted by a 19-year-old Mount Pleasant man, the report states.
The man met with the officer and said that the advertisement was a joke and that he was not selling a baby. There were no charges.
Erratic drivers draw law interest
Two drivers were charged after making several mistakes in front of Mount Pleasant police cars.
In one case, a driver nearly sideswiped a patrol car parked on Rifle Range Road on July 24, alerting police to follow. The 24-year-old driver then swerved across the solid yellow line and turned into a Sweetgrass subdivision, where he went through a stop sign and failed to use his turn signal. The officer turned on his lights and stopped the man, who eventually was charged with driving under the influence.
In another case on July 23, a 17-year-old passenger was charged with simple possession of marijuana after the driver of the car he was riding in failed to signal and then stopped in the middle of a Chuck Dawley Boulevard intersection for 10 seconds even though the light was green.
The driver eventually turned, but onto the wrong side of the road.
Officers stopped the car and found out that a passenger might have been wanted by police and asked him to step outside. When he did, officers saw a clear plastic bag containing suspected marijuana on the floorboard. Officers then searched the car and found a glass pipe in the driver's purse.
She was charged with possession of drug paraphernalia.
Man asks for light, charged with BUI
A Mount Pleasant man who wanted a light wound up arrested after he stopped a Charleston County Sheriff's Office patrol boat.
On July 20, two Charleston County sheriff's deputies were patrolling the Intracoastal Waterway near the Isle of Palms when a 38-year-old man flagged down the marked patrol boat and asked for a light for his cigarette, a report states. Deputies noticed that he had slurred speech and that the floor of the boat was littered with empty beer cans.
A deputy asked him how much he had to drink and the man said he had four beers.
The man said he was not intoxicated, but he failed sobriety tests, a report states. The man refused a breath test and was taken to the Charleston County De- tention Center on a charge of boating under the influence.
School official finds bullets
A school official called the Charleston County Sheriff's Office July 22 after he found bullets in his desk. He said he was cleaning out a new office when he opened a desk drawer and found 31 9 mm bullets. He said they weren't his and he had no idea whose they were.
He said he had no use for them and wanted them removed. The deputy took the bullets and placed them into evidence to be destroyed.
Sheriff's Maj. John Clark said having bullets on school grounds was not illegal and deputies have no way of knowing how long they've been there. There were no charges.
Repairman finds marijuana plants
A repairman went to a Mount Pleasant-area condominium July 24 to fix an air conditioner and found marijuana plants in a bedroom.
Mount Pleasant police arrived to check out the apartment and the officer saw a gold water bong from the front door and smelled a strong odor that he thought was marijuana.
Police went inside and saw four plants in separate pots inside a wooden enclosure with two fans and a light above the pots.
Police then obtained a search warrant and arrested the 22-year-old man living in the home when he showed up about an hour later. The resident was charged with manufacturing marijuana near a school and manufacturing marijuana.
Four days later, July 28, two officers were called back to the condo because the man accused of growing marijuana had returned to the complex, another report states.
A condo employee said after the arrest the man was not supposed to return because he was charged with growing marijuana.
The 22-year-old and his dad explained that they were coming to remove $10,000 of his property and said they were never given a trespass notice. The manager was at lunch, and police couldn't verify whether he was given a notice or not. So police told him not to come back.
These news items are taken from selected incident reports from the Mount Pleasant Police Department and Charleston County Sheriff's Office.
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