Archive By Section - Crime-Police-Fire
The Kershaw County Sheriff's Office (KCSO) is seeking the whereabouts of a man they said eluded deputies after "launching" the late model Chevrolet Camaro he was driving into a creek near Old English Road in the southern part of the Lugoff-Elgin area.
February 09, 2018
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Crime-Police-Fire
Elgin Police Department (EPD)
February 06, 2018
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Martin L.
Cahn
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Crime-Police-Fire
The Camden Police Department (CPD) arrested a Camden Middle School (CMS) teaching assistant on an assault charge Monday following a nearly week-long investigation.
February 02, 2018
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Martin L.
Cahn
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Crime-Police-Fire
A Rembert man was found dead in the cab of his tractor-trailer cab at the Black River Shell convenience store and gas station on Sumter Highway (U.S. 521) Tuesday afternoon.
February 02, 2018
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Martin L.
Cahn
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Crime-Police-Fire
A Columbia man is charged with felony DUI with great bodily injury for causing a Jan. 27 collision involving three vehicles in front of the main Camden post office and sending a husband and wife to the hospital.
February 02, 2018
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Martin L.
Cahn
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Crime-Police-Fire
A Camden man who never showed up for court hearings in connection with a June 2017 arrest on drug and weapons charges is now behind bars again.
January 30, 2018
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Martin L.
Cahn
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Crime-Police-Fire
The man accused of entering two Camden convenience stores and demanding money by claiming an accomplice was in a car with guns is now behind bars thanks to an alert Kershaw County Sheriff's Office (KCSO) deputy.
January 30, 2018
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Martin L.
Cahn
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Crime-Police-Fire
In a press release issued Jan. 24, U.S. South Carolina Attorney Beth Drake said Kemo Jason Smith, 39, of Camden, and Deandre Adarias Jenkins, 27, of Conway, were charged Tuesday in a multi-count indictment with conspiracy to import cocaine and conspiracy to possess with intent to distribute cocaine. Jenkins was additionally charged with possession of firearm in furtherance of a drug trafficking crime, possession with intent to distribute controlled substances, and unlawful use of U.S. Mail. The maximum penalty they could receive for the conspiracy charges is a fine of $5 million and/or 40 years imprisonment.
January 30, 2018
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Crime-Police-Fire
A Camden man pleaded guilty Thursday in federal court to being a felon in possession of a firearm and possession with intent to distribute marijuana, according to a press release issued by South Carolina U.S. Attorney Beth Drake.
January 30, 2018
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Martin L.
Cahn
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Crime-Police-Fire
The Camden Police Department is seeking a suspect believed to be involved in two robberies that took place Wednesday evening.
January 26, 2018
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Jim
Tatum
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Crime-Police-Fire
Kershaw County Sheriff's Office (KCSO) deputies responded to an armed robbery Sunday morning at the Dollar General in Lugoff, 1686 U.S. 1 South.
January 23, 2018
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Crime-Police-Fire
On Thursday, the Kershaw County Sheriff's Office (KCSO) arrested David Adam Barton, 42, of Lugoff, and charged him with two counts of first-degree criminal sexual conduct with a minor under 11 years of age and one count of third-degree criminal sexual conduct with a minor under the age of 14.
January 23, 2018
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Crime-Police-Fire
(The online version of this week's Crime Report is expanded from the print edition.)
January 19, 2018
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Martin L.
Cahn
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Crime-Police-Fire
A woman struck by a pickup truck while she and her 13-year-old grandson were crossing DeKalb Street from the Little Theater in Camden on Sunday evening is recovering at a Columbia hospital, according to her daughter.
January 16, 2018
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Martin L.
Cahn
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Crime-Police-Fire
A circuit court judge revoked a previously set bond for a man arrested by Kershaw County Sheriff's Office (KCSO) deputies on Dec. 29, 2017. Fifth Circuit Deputy Solicitor Brett Perry said Circuit Court Judge Tommy Cooper revoked bond for Cody Gene Jackson, 26, of U.S. 601 South, Lugoff, during a hearing Monday at the Kershaw County Courthouse.
January 12, 2018
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Martin L.
Cahn
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Crime-Police-Fire
