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Two more arrested in stolen truck case
A Cassatt couple has been arrested in connection with the Jan. 11 theft of a Ford truck and subsequent chase that injured a Kershaw County deputy.
Law Enforcement Reports - Jan. 19, 2011
Four county men have been called to appear in summary court on malicious injury to property charges after allegedly tearing up the Kershaw County Recreation Department (KCRD) soccer fields at the West Wateree Sports Complex.
KCSO finds missing boy safe
A 13-year-old special needs student at an Elgin private residential school was found safe after a nearly two-hour search Tuesday evening. The boy, who climbed out of his bedroom window at Pine Grove School on Chestnut Road near Elgin around 5 p.m., left without a coat or shoes in freezing temperatures, according to Kershaw County Sheriff Jim Matthews.
More information released on North Central break-ins
The Kershaw County Sheriff's Office (KCSO) has released more information about break-ins at two North Central schools in the hopes of catching the perpetrators.
North Central schools vandalized
Somebody broke into both North Central High and North Central Middle schools, caused $30,000 total damage and stole computers.
Police Reports for Jan. 12, 2011
Two Camden men are being sought in connection with the Jan. 2 stabbing of one of the men's 45-year-old father-in-law.
Police Reports for Jan. 5, 2011
The mother of a high school student has accused another student of providing her son drugs that landed him in the hospital.
Police Report for Dec. 29, 2010
The Camden Police Department (CPD) is looking for a 24-year-old woman officers say stabbed her 33-year-old boyfriend at a West DeKalb Street motel.
Two more arrested in Antioch cemetery shooting
Two more suspects have been arrested in connection with the Dec. 12 shooting incident in Antioch Baptist Church's cemetery.
Fire marshal, KCSO looking for arsonist
Is there a serial arsonist in the Mt. Pisgah and Cassatt areas? Are there two?
Police Report for Dec. 22, 2010
At least three men are being sought by the Camden Police Department (CPD) for robbing a store employee at gunpoint as she was making a night deposit at a DeKalb Street bank Saturday night.
Suspects named in cemetery shooting
Two 18-year-old men, one from Cassatt and one from Rembert, have been named as suspects in Sunday's Antioch Baptist Church cemetery shooting.
Police report for Dec. 15, 2010
An 18-year-old Camden woman has accused a truck driver of trying to abduct her.
Gunfire exchanged in Antioch cemetery
A Camden man and his wife were walking back to their car at Antioch Baptist Church's cemetery off Nursery Road around 4 p.m. Sunday when a man masking his face with a cloth around his head stepped out of a wooded area.
Federal trial set for former deputy
A federal trial for former Kershaw County Sheriff's Office (KCSO) deputy Odie Tribble, charged with violating an arrested man's civil rights by beating him, will be held Jan. 27 in Columbia.
Articles by Section - Crime-Police-Fire
Second arrest in fatal accident
A second arrest was made in the case of a fatal hit-and-run in Elgin on March 1. 26-year-old Jesus Corona Cabal, of Columbia, was charged with accessory after the fact for helping the driver involved in the hit and run "destroy" the 1999 Mitsubishi Eclipse that hit and killed Derk Lawrence Maricle of Lugoff, S.C. Highway Patrol Lance Cpl. Brent Kelly said.
Woman arrested in fatal March hit and run
For more than two months, the S.C. Highway Patrol (SCHP) sought the driver of an unknown vehicle that fatally struck and killed a pedestrian on Blaney Road during the early morning hours of March 1.
Cassatt man dies in crash Saturday
The body of a man killed in a single-vehicle accident Saturday was discovered Monday.
Crime Report - May 15, 2013
An Elgin woman's daughter-in-law allegedly approached her with a knife because she was angry that the Elgin woman's son was on the brink of losing his job.
Two arrested after meth lab discovered
Kershaw County Sheriff's Office (KCSO) narcotics agents arrested two men Monday after discovering a fully assembled methamphetamine lab in an outbuilding on Cricket Hill Drive in Lugoff.
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