Laurens Co. Sheriff’s Office using penny sales tax for new evidence room

Enter Headline here November 21, 2020LAURENS COUNTY, S.C. (FOX Carolina) – Laurens County Administrator John Caime is excited for the future.”Right now we are in the process of re-finalizing the entire county,” he told FOX Carolina. “This sales...

Columbia Police set to destroy more than 1,300 drugs from old cases

Holbrook insisted the drugs were being disposed because the cases have closed, not because of any space issues in the evidence vault, November 11, 2020Police departments often pay lip service to eradicating illegal drugs in the community. On Tuesday, Columbia City...

Knox County Criminal Court Clerk asks judge to remove chemicals from Joel Guy Jr. trial evidence

Criminal Court Clerk Mike Hammond asked Judge Steve Sword to remove the hazardous chemicals currently stored in evidence, November 6, 2020KNOXVILLE, Tenn. (WATE)- Joel Guy Jr., who was convicted of murdering and dismembering his parents over Thanksgiving weekend in...

Former Manning Police Chief Gets 1 Year in Prison for Stealing $80,000 in Seized Cash

Enter Headline here Enter Article DATE HEREMANNING, SC— United States Attorney Peter M. McCoy, Jr., announced today that Gary Blair Shaffer, former Chief of the City of Manning Police Department, was sentenced to a year in federal prison for stealing nearly...

Deputy hospitalized after likely exposure to heroin, fentanyl

Deputy ‘lightheaded and faint’ after exposure November 1, 2020CHESTERFIELD COUNTY, Va. — A deputy was hospitalized after officials said he was exposed to what is believed to be a mixture of heroin and fentanyl while searching an inmate being admitted...

Criminal Court Clerk discusses ‘human error’ in property room mix-up

“human error” when a clerk in her office’s property and evidence room mistakenly grabbed evidence from another murder case and gave it to attorneys working on the death row case of Pervis Payne. October 18, 2020Shelby County Criminal Court Clerk...