Man Arrested After Threatening to Kill Officers in North Charleston

North Charleston police arrested 45-year-old Adam Charles Carota of Buffalo, New York, after responding to a disturbance at a gas station on Ashley Phosphate Road. Officers say Carota refused to provide identification, advanced on an officer leading to a brief struggle and was arrested for breach of peace; while being searched and secured in a patrol car he allegedly threatened to kill officers multiple times. A caller told police Carota had been drinking and using narcotics on the property; he was charged with Breach of Peace and Threatening the Life of a Public Official and transported to the Al Cannon Detention Center.