Mount Pleasant Police Reports

These items were selected from several hundred Mount Pleasant Police Reports filed over the last week.

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

Police work two school calls in the first week of class

Schools have only been in session two weeks, but twice in the first four days of calss, Mount Pleasant police have been on the campus of Wando High School to rein in delinquent teens.

On the very first day of class, administrators at the high school called police after three teens were caught skipping class and could provide no good excuse for why they were outside, behind the school building, according to police reports.

While escorting the boys back to class, the school’s assistant principal eyed a 17-year-old move a small item from his back pocket to his mouth. Police forced the teen spit out the item, and it turned out to be a small bag of marijuana.

The teenager is facing school discipline, as well as criminal charges for having less than 2 grams of pot.

On Aug. 20, a juvenile girl created a huge scene at the school for refusing to hand over her cell phone after administrators caught her talking on the phone during school hours.

The girl launched into a profanity-laced tirade against administrators and the police, and outright refused to hand over her phone. When police told her that she was facing criminal “disturbing schools” charges, the girl really lost it, the report said.

Eventually, police had to put the youngster in handcuffs and remove the phone from her purse. She won’t face criminal charges, but she’s definitely in hot water with the school.

Once she calmed down, according to the police report, the girl revealed she was so upset about the incident because she faced disciplinary problems at her former high school for the same cell phone issue.

Pot in the most likely of places

A tenant in a Larch Lane strip mall called police after she became concerned over the continual and strong stench of marijuana that kept creeping into her business.

Police searched that tenant’s shop as well as all the others in the complex. When they reached Jeffrey Hodge’s recording studio in a nearby suite, they reportedly found their culprit.

Police wrote in their report that the distinct smell of marijuana was overpowering in Hodge’s suite.

Hodges said he found three marijuana joints in the recording studio and put the items in his desk. Police also found rolling papers, a coffee mug that contained partially smoked marijuana cigarettes as well as evidence of marijuana use in the recording studio.

Hodges was charged with simple possession of marijuana and given a written summons to appear in municipal court, the report states.

Prayers answered at traffic stop

Police observed a man driving erratically near the intersection of U.S. Hwy. 17 and Anna Knapp Boulevard, and when he attempted to turn across a lane of traffic without a turn signal, the officer pulled the car over.

The 24-year-old Piedmont, S.C., man seemed nervous, police wrote in an incident report. He said he was from out of town and was meeting a friend at a nearby restaurant. His hands were shaking, and while the officer was running the driver’s information, the man kept looking in his rearview mirror and into the console of his car.

The officer found the whole situation suspicious, so he asked to search the car, at which time the man got on his knees and began to pray, “Please Lord, let this man see that I am a good person.”

It must have worked, because the officer didn’t find anything unusual in the car, and he sent the driver on his way. When asked why he needed to pray, the driver said he “loves his Lord like that.”