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Anderson, SC (Friday August 27, 2010) Anderson County Sheriff’s Narcotics Agents, CATCH team Deputies and DEA Agents made arrests of five Georgia men and seized three kilos of cocaine in a drug trafficking bust.Monday night (August 23, 2010) ACSO deputies, narcotics agents and DEA agents intercepted an attempted drug transaction where three kilo sized packages [...]

Lexington County Sheriff’s Department fugitive investigators on Friday, August 27 served a family court bench warrant on a 32-year-old Pelion man who owes more than $10,000 in court-ordered child support payments in Lexington County. Lexington County Sheriff James R. Metts said fugitive investigators served the family court bench warrant on Damian Lee Hoffman, 32, of [...]

Anderson, SC (Friday, August 27, 2010) Anderson County Sheriff’s Deputies conducted a prostitution sting that led to four arrests, for the solicitation of prostitution.Late Wednesday night (August 25, 2010) CATCH (Criminal Apprehension Through Community Help) team officers, set up two sting operations in two different areas known for prostitution complaints.  Undercover officers were able to make [...]

Floyd Douglas McDaniel, DOB 5-14-59, is wanted on arrest warrants on three counts of second-degree burglary, criminalconspiracy and breaking into a motor vehicle. His last known address was 1725 Spring Hill Road, Gilbert. McDaniel is 5-foot-10 and weighs 170 pounds. McDaniel has brown hair and green eyes. Duffy Tao McDowell, Jr., DOB 4-6-89, is wanted on an arrest warrant [...]

A Chesnee man received a life prison sentence today after a Spartanburg County jury decided that he sexually assaulted a young girl on multiple occasions. Anthony N. Briggs, 26, was found guilty of first-degree criminal sexual conduct with a minor and lewd act on a minor at the conclusion of a three-day jury trial. Circuit Judge Derham Cole issued the maximum [...]

BALTIMORE—A federal grand jury has indicted Steven Blackwell, age 26, of Elkton, Maryland; Tahirah Carter, age 34, of Cockeysville, Maryland; and Joy Edison, age 24, of Elkton, for conspiracy to distribute and possess with intent to distribute heroin. The indictment was returned on August 11, 2010, and unsealed today upon the arrest of the defendants. [...]

An indictment was unsealed in federal court in Brooklyn this morning charging members of the “Nine-Trey Gangsters,” also known as the “Bugout Boyz,” a set of the Bloods street gang, with racketeering, murder, drug distribution, and firearms offenses. Two defendants, including Laron Spicer, were charged with the July 18, 2008, murder of a drug rival; [...]

COLUMBIA, SC—United States Attorney William N. Nettles stated that John Fitzgerald O’Connor, Jr., age 63, of Columbia, South Carolina, pled guilty today to conspiracy to commit mail fraud and money laundering. During the plea hearing, O’Connor admitted to being involved in a conspiracy to liquidate and conceal monies and property which had been stolen by [...]

Everett Eugene Watts, II, 31, of 159 Stoney Point Drive, Chapin, turned himself in at 6 a.m. on Wednesday, August 25 at the Lexington County James R. Metts Law Enforcement Complex, 521 Gibson Road, Lexington, on arrest warrants on charges of petit larceny and malicious injury to personal property.

Lexington County Sheriff’s Department detectives are seeking help from citizens in identifying a man who used sharp objects to commit robberies at a Popps convenience store at 1057 South Lake Drive near Lexington on June 15 and August 24.  Lexington County Sheriff James R. Metts said detectives on Wednesday, August 25 released four surveillance camera photographs of the man who [...]