Two Juveniles Arrested After Riding Dirt Bike Inside Myrtle Beach Mall
Police say two juveniles were taken into custody after a dirt bike was driven through Coastal Grand Mall and crashed into a kiosk. Two juveniles were arrested Wednesday morning after allegedly riding…
Gaffney Man Arrested on Child Sexual Abuse Material* Charges
(COLUMBIA, S.C.) – June 7, 2021 – South Carolina Attorney General Alan Wilson announced the arrest of Thomas Tamas Panto, 74, of Gaffney, S.C., on five charges connected to the sexual exploitation of…
Summerville man sentenced to 7 years for sexual exploitation of a minor
(COLUMBIA, S.C.) – June 10, 2021 – Attorney General Alan Wilson announced that a Summerville man has been sentenced to seven years in prison for the sexual exploitation of a minor. On…
Multiple Men Arrested on Child Sexual Abuse Material* Charges
(COLUMBIA, S.C.) – June 2, 2021 – South Carolina Attorney General Alan Wilson announced the arrest of D’Andre Lashaun Brown, 21, of Walterboro, S.C., Kenneth M. Owens, 39, of Anderson, S.C., Isaac…
Colleton County Man Arrested on Child Sexual Abuse Material* Charges
(COLUMBIA, S.C.) – June 4, 2021 – South Carolina Attorney General Alan Wilson announced the arrest of Daniel Jean Bell, 30, of Walterboro, S.C., on 17 charges connected to the sexual exploitation of…
Goose Creek Man Arrested on Child Sexual Abuse Material* Charges
(COLUMBIA, S.C.) – June 7 ,2021 – South Carolina Attorney General Alan Wilson announced the arrest of Kevin Matthew Bak, 32, of Goose Creek, S.C., on three charges connected to the sexual exploitation…
Lancaster Co. man sentenced to 25 years for Criminal Sexual Conduct with a Minor
(COLUMBIA, S.C.) – May 27, 2021 – Attorney General Alan Wilson announced that a Lancaster County man has been sentenced to 25 years in prison for Criminal Sexual Conduct with a Minor,…
Attorney General Wilson and coalition of 24 states urge Supreme Court to uphold Second Amendment
(COLUMBIA, S.C.) – June 1, 2021 – South Carolina Attorney General Alan Wilson has joined a coalition of 24 states to uphold the Second Amendment at the U.S. Supreme Court (SCOTUS). The…
Aiken Co. man sentenced to 10 years for Sexual Exploitation of a Minor and other charges
(COLUMBIA, S.C.) – May 26, 2021 – An Aiken County man was sentenced today to 10 years in prison for several charges involving sexual exploitation of and sexual conduct with a minor.…
Welcome aboard, Five-0 pup joins Sheriff’s Office
GEORGETOWN, SC – Dukat, an 18-month-old German Shepherd-Belgian Malinois mix, has been sworn in by Sheriff Carter Weaver.K-9 Dukat was born in Poland and came to the Georgetown County Sheriff’s Office via…
This entire family was arrested for jailhouse mail-order drug business
GEORGETOWN, SC – A Georgetown family is behind bars after authorities uncovered their illegal mail-order jail house drug mailing business. Agents of the Sheriff’s Office Narcotics Unit working with corrections personnel at…
Honey, is that your bomb in the shed? World War I era bomb found
Our grandparents and great grandparents came from a generation that never threw anything out. During the two “Great Wars” and rationing, everything had a second purpose…apparently, even a Coopers bomb. The Myrtle…
Myrtle Beach kicks off Memorial Day weekend with shooting
Myrtle Beach, SC – The Myrtle Beach Police Department has one person in custody in connection to a shooting at 3305 North Kings Highway. Officers responded to a report of shots fired…
$30,000 lottery ticket sold at Beaufort Food Lion
he Food Lion on Boundary St. in Beaufort sold a customer a $30,000 winning lottery ticket. The winner says he bought a snack and picked out the $2 Wild Cherry Doubler scratch-off. He scanned the ticket on the grocery store’s…
Westminster man arrested for exploitation of children
May 5, 2021 – South Carolina Attorney General Alan Wilson announced the arrest of Donald Alfred Slater, Jr., 62, of Westminster, S.C., on six charges connected to the sexual exploitation of minors. Internet…
Indictment announced in fatal South Carolina kidnapping
MYRTLE BEACH, SOUTH CAROLINA – Acting United States Attorney M. Rhett DeHart stated today that a Federal Grand Jury in Columbia returned a multiple-count indictment in connection with a kidnapping and carjacking that started…
Police department accused of enforcing school mask policy says it never happened
Mount Pleasant, S.C. – After a social media post claimed police officers were placed at Pickney Elementary School to bully parents into complying with the school’s facemask policy, police here said it…
Tim Scott shreds Biden after Congressional speech
WASHINGTON, DC – President Joe Biden promised to unite Americans and to work on easing the division between the left and right. So far, Biden has done more to incite division in…
Charleston bookkeeper embezzled $1 million from Real Estate company
Charleston, South Carolina — Acting United States Attorney M. Rhett Dehart announced today that Karen Rhett, 58, of Mount Pleasant, pled guilty to federal charges involving the embezzlement of over $1,000,000 from Simmons Realty…
$2 million Powerball ticket sold in Pelion
PELION, SC (April 22, 2021) – A Powerball player in Pelion is holding a ticket worth $2 MILLION and someone in West Columbia won $100,000 in Wednesday night’s drawing. The $2 MILLION ticket was purchased from the Rucker…
$200,000 lottery ticket sold at Palmetto Food in Saint Stephen
COLUMBIA, SC (April 22, 2021) – Wednesday’s Palmetto Cash 5 drawing produced a ticket worth $200,000. The ticket was sold at Palmetto Food at 3915 B. Byrnes Dr. in Saint Stephen. The Palmetto Cash 5 ticket for Wednesday’s drawing…