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A North Carolina man was arrested Sunday following a fatal shooting that happened during a gathering violating the governor’s stay-at-home mandate, officials say.
The victim was 31-year-old …
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The Sumter County Sheriff's Office made the following arrests from April 3-8, and four suspects face different charges, such as domestic violence, stalking, harassment, burglary and armed robbery.
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Adrian Carlnell Jackson, 47, of …
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Sumter County investigators seized various drugs and multiple firearms during the execution of a search warrant at an Antrim Court residence on April 1. Deputies arrested Kevin Coard, 29, of …
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The Richland County Sheriff’s Office arrested a 34-year-old and 30-year-old in connection to the March 23 vehicle fire incident in Sumter. Joshua Fredrick Ellison, 34, and Willie Edward …
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MANNING – A 23-year-old Manning man was found dead at his home Sunday afternoon, according to Clarendon County Coroner Bucky Mock.
“The victim was identified as Dashell Powell,” …
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BY SHARRON HALEY Clarendon contributor |
4/6/20 12:53 PM
The Sumter Police Department needs the public’s help identifying two men involved in a break-in at the Family Dollar, 1295 N. Lafayette Drive, on Friday night. The men, who were captured on …
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The identities of the two bodies found burned in a vehicle fire on March 23 on Foxville Road have been identified.
The male victim, Janio Lopes, 36, of Eastover, died from blunt-force trauma …
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Officers are investigating after a 31-year-old man was shot and killed in his vehicle early this morning by an unknown suspect.Sherrod Carlton Smith, of Wedgefield, was sitting inside a vehicle …
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The Sumter Police Department issued warrants for a Sumter man who is wanted for reportedly robbing a woman at gunpoint early Monday.
Sharell Wells, 27, of Cambridge Drive, is wanted for armed …
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A Columbia man was taken into custody in connection to a March 17 stalking incident in Sumter.
Robert Pairman, 55, is suspected of stalking a 56-year-old woman at her workplace and home in Sumter, …
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Based on the autopsies performed today at MUSC in Charleston, the deaths of the two individuals, a male and female, who were found inside a fully engulfed vehicle on Foxville Road Monday have been …
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Sumter County investigators seized marijuana, cocaine and multiple firearms while executing a search warrant at a Bunneau Street residence, following an attempted traffic stop and vehicle pursuit …
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SHELBIE GOULDING shelbie@theitem.com |
3/25/20 11:06 AM
Two bodies were found inside a burning vehicle parked on Foxville Road Monday.
Deputy Adrienne Sarvis, public information officer for the Sumter County Sheriff’s Office, said the county …
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Two teenagers have been arrested in connection to the shooting of a 27-year-old man who was found dead in his Sumter County home in February.
Jameek Ronnie Kelly, 17, of Darlington, and Traquan …
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MANNING - A 35-year-old Manning man who was arrested Monday on multiple drug charges as well as a felon in possession of a gun charge was released from jail on bond just hours later.
According to Clarendon County Sheriff Tim Baxley and Manning …
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BY SHARRON HALEY Clarendon Sun contributor |
3/20/20 06:00 AM
After being arrested on a trespassing charge by police upon refusing to leave a Sumter public school last month, a local community activist is now pursuing legal action.
Sumter resident Brenda Williams is facing the magistrate-level offense after …
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Sumter County Sheriff’s Office deputies seized a little more than 4 pounds of suspected marijuana after a driver wrecked while attempting to evade a traffic stop on Tuesday afternoon.
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The Sumter County Sheriff's Office provided the following reports consisting of driving offenses, possession of meth, financial transaction card theft and fraud.
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A woman reported that a man, Len Edward Burrows, 52, of Dalzell, stole …
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A man wanted in Bennettsville on accusations of shooting two people Tuesday morning was found dead of apparent suicide in a Sumter County motel.
His vehicle was located at a motel on U.S. 15 North …
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