{"id":343444,"date":"2025-12-12T02:02:08","date_gmt":"2025-12-12T02:02:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/343444\/"},"modified":"2025-12-12T02:02:08","modified_gmt":"2025-12-12T02:02:08","slug":"police-arrest-suspect-for-allegedly-breaking-into-womans-home-and-assaulting-her","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/343444\/","title":{"rendered":"Police arrest suspect for allegedly breaking into woman&#8217;s home and assaulting her"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>CHARLESTON, S.C. (WCIV) \u2014 A 29-year-old from North Charleston is facing charges after he allegedly forcibly entered a woman&#8217;s home and assaulted her on Wednesday. <\/p>\n<p>Walter Clayton Pate III is accused of first-degree burglary, first-degree assault and battery, and kidnapping, according to the Charleston Police Department. <\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Walter Clayton Pate III is accused of first-degree burglary, first-degree assault and battery, and kidnapping. (Charleston County Jail)\" class=\"ImageEmbed_image__qZBo_\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/7db01b10-02ed-4939-8141-3ddca2927297-CopyofThumbnails12.png\"\/><\/p>\n<p>Walter Clayton Pate III is accused of first-degree burglary, first-degree assault and battery, and kidnapping. (Charleston County Jail)<\/p>\n<p>On Dec. 10, Pate was allegedly found inside a woman&#8217;s residence, only wearing his underwear. When he was confronted, he allegedly physically assaulted her. <\/p>\n<p>When the victim fought, Pate fled the area, police said. <\/p>\n<p>Charleston police worked alongside the U.S. Marshals Task Force to locate and arrest Pate on Wednesday evening. <\/p>\n<p>Despite the arrest, the investigation remains active and ongoing, police said. <\/p>\n<p>READ MORE | <a href=\"https:\/\/abcnews4.com\/news\/local\/17-year-old-identified-as-victim-in-downtown-charleston-shooting-investigation-continues-charleston-police-department-ashley-avenue-race-street\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">&#8220;17-year-old identified as victim in downtown Charleston shooting, investigation continues.&#8221;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"CHARLESTON, S.C. (WCIV) \u2014 A 29-year-old from North Charleston is facing charges after he allegedly forcibly entered a&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":343445,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[4,450,451,3,452,453],"class_list":{"0":"post-343444","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-breaking-news","8":"tag-breaking-news","9":"tag-breakingnews","10":"tag-headlines","11":"tag-news","12":"tag-top-stories","13":"tag-topstories"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/343444","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=343444"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/343444\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/343445"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=343444"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=343444"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=343444"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}