11th Circuit Solicitor Rick Hubbard

Lexington County mother gets 38 years for homicide by child abuse

Cynthia Estrada-Lopez, age 28, has been sentenced to 38 years in prison for killing her four year old daughter, Lilly Lopez. Chief Administrative Judge Walton J. McLeod, IV imposed the sentence following Lopez’s guilty plea to Homicide by Child Abuse on Thursday in Lexington County. Under South Carolina law, Lopez will not be eligible for […]

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Lexington woman gets 12 years for felony DUI involving death

Last week, Lauren Michelle Dangerfield, 33 from Lexington, was sentenced to 12 years in the South Carolina Department of Corrections following a guilty plea to Felony DUI, Involving Death. Dangerfield entered her guilty plea by videoconference using the Court’s Virtual Courtroom platform on Dec. 7. The sentencing hearing was delayed because of the court closures. […]

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Man get 8 years for assaulting a police officer in Lexington County

Colby Alfred Henke, 38, was sentenced to eight years following a guilty plea to Assault on a Police Officer While Resisting Arrest and Threatening the Life of a Public Official. On May 1, 2020, an agent with the South Carolina Department of Probation, Pardon, and Parole responded to a home in Lexington County to conduct […]

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