‘Rats as big as a cat’
Before they were taken into emergency protective custody Nov. 9, a teen and his sibling told Dorchester County sheriff’s deputies that they had seen “rats as big as a cat” and a “big black snake” come through a hole in the floor of their family’s North Charleston mobile home, a report shows.
Sent by an investigator to check on a child there, the reporting deputy found that the home had no electricity and that the three juveniles who lived there were going to the homes of friends and family to eat, shower and use the bathroom, the report says.
The juveniles reportedly said there had been no water or electricity in the home for two weeks.
Their mother, 36, was arrested and charged with child neglect, the report says.

Whiskey whirlwind
After downing a bottle of whiskey on Halloween, a Goose Creek man broke a car window, punched his girlfriend in the face and tried to pick a fight with a police officer, according to a Summerville Police report.
The man, 23, was at a get-together in Corey Woods when he became “very aggressive” and began to fight with other guests, the report says.
The group lobbied his girlfriend to take him to the hospital because he had fallen and cut his finger, but when several people tried to put him in the car, he broke out the window and hit a woman — presumably his girlfriend, because they share the same address — with a closed fist, the report says.
At Summerville Medical Center, the man reportedly tried to fight an officer who had detained him. He also screamed “racist slurs and profanity” while small children and elderly people were present, the report says.
He was charged with simple assault and public intoxication.

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