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Last night, Deputies were dispatched to a disturbance in the Enoree community where it was reported to dispatchers that two people had been shot. Deputies arrived on the scene to find several people who were all in a very excited and emotional state of mind. The reporting Deputy attempted to record the events that transpired [...]

Officers with the Lexington County Multi-Agency Narcotics Enforcement Team (NET) on Thursday, October 13 seized 73 marijuana plants, with a street value of about $73,000, after they executed a search warrant at a home on Ben Franklin Road near Leesville. Lexington County Sheriff James R. Metts said officers will obtain an arrest warrant on a [...]

Special Agent in Charge Brian D. Lamkin announces, on behalf of the FBI’s Northwest Georgia Safe Child Task Force, the following arrest at Ringgold, Georgia: Jessie Lipscomb, 21 years of age, of Temple, Georgia, was arrested on Monday, October 10, 2011, by FBI agents and task force officers after coming to the attention of undercover [...]

In another example of the increasingly international nature of crime, a man was recently indicted on federal charges of running 18 Chinese-language child pornography websites out of his apartment in Flushing, New York. The websites were being advertised to Chinese-speaking individuals in China, in the U.S., and other countries. This case serves as an example [...]

About 12:30 PM today, neighbors, who were searching in the woods at the end of the cul-de-sac where the K-9 track of Mr. Hayes ended overnight, found Mr. Michael Hayes. Mr. Hayes told his rescuers that he had wandered into the woods at the end of the cul-de-sac and became disoriented. Since he was visiting [...]

On Saturday, 10/08, Officers responded to Eagles Lane in the Moore community of Spartanburg County in reference to a missing adult. Upon arrival, officers met with complainant, Ronnie, who stated that his handicapped son, Michael, who is visiting from Kannapolis, NC, was missing. Ronnie states that Michael is blind from a prior injury and has [...]

An investigation by Deputies into calls from concerned neighbors have lead to charges of Child Neglect being filed against a Spartanburg County couple. On October 4, 2011 Deputies responded to a call in reference to an unsupervised child at 664 Canaan Road. Upon arrival Deputies made contact with Joseph Watson and two of his children, [...]

A Honolulu man convicted of transferring obscenity to a minor under 16 years old residing in Australia, over the Internet, was sentenced to nine months in prison by United States District Judge J. Michael Seabright on October 3. Kyle Kaponiokalani Saito, 22, pleaded guilty to the offense on June 23, 2011 in United States District [...]

A Savannah man wanted by the Savannah Chatham Metro Police Department was arrested by the Savannah Office of the United States Marshals Southeast Regional Fugitive Task Force and the Beaufort-Jasper Multi Agency Drug Task Force on October 4, 2011 in Bluffton, South Carolina. Dwayne Smith, 31, was being sought on three warrants by the Savannah [...]

The U.S. Marshalls Task Force, along with Williamston Police arrested Dwayne Corell Beddingfield earlier today in Williamston for Attempted Murder and Petit Larceny from a Greenville County incident that occurred September 28th. In that incident Beddingfield attempted to strike the victim with his vehicle while Mark Randall Brady threw an object at the victim while [...]