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On Tuesday, May 17, 50 persons who were wanted on family court bench warrants that were issued after the persons did not make a combined total of $435,467 in court-ordered child support payments in Lexington County turned themselves in during Operation Last Chance. The Lexington County Sheriff’s Department and Lexington County Clerk of Court’s Office [...]

Officers with the Lexington County Multi-Agency Narcotics Enforcement Team (NET) and South Carolina Law Enforcement Division on Monday, July 26 seized 20 marijuana plants that were worth a total of about $20,000. Officers arrested a 29-year-old man who set up a sophisticated marijuana growing operation in a bedroom at a home on Rapids Road near [...]

Officers with the Lexington County Multi-Agency Narcotics Enforcement Team (NET), federal Drug Enforcement Administration regional task force, federal Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco and Firearms and South Carolina Law Enforcement Division on Thursday, July 22 seized 103 marijuana plants that were worth a total of about $103,000. Officers also arrested a 35-year-old man who grew the [...]

Lexington County Sheriff’s Department detectives on Tuesday, July 20 arrested a 50-year-old Gaston man on charges that the man showed a pornographic movie to an 8-year-old boy and an 11-year-old boy at his Gaston home. The movie depicted two men  engaging in sexual acts.  Lexington County Sheriff James R. Metts said detectives arrested Gary Owen [...]

David John Bandlow, Jr., DOB 9-30-54, was arrested on Saturday, July 17 on an arrest warrant on a charge of breach of trust with fraudulent intent. William Authur Jerry Thornburg, DOB 9-19-64, was arrested on Saturday, July 17 on an arrest warrant on a charge of second-offense criminal domestic violence. Bruce Wayne Zeigler, Sr., DOB [...]

Lexington County Sheriff’s Department deputies on Sunday, July 11 arrested a 24-year-old Lexington man in connection with the killing of another man who was fatally shot at about 3 a.m. on Sunday while the man sat in a chair outside a bar on South Lake Drive near Lexington. Lexington County Sheriff James R. Metts said detectives [...]

Lexington County Sheriff’s Department detectives on Monday, June 7 served a 29-year-old West Columbia man with arrest warrants in connection with the stabbing of an 11-year-old boy and the attempted strangling of a 9-year-old boy on Sunday, June 6 at a West Columbia home that the man shared with the two boys. Lexington County Sheriff [...]

Officers with the Lexington County Multi-Agency Narcotics Enforcement Team (NET) on Wednesday, May 19 seized 94 marijuana plants, with a street value of about $94,000, that were being grown inside a home on Milton Way near Gaston as well as a shed outside the residence. Lexington County Sheriff James R. Metts said NET officers arrested [...]