Lexington County Sheriff Jay Koon
Juan Isidro Velasquez-Rocha, age 44, pled guilty to two counts of Criminal Sexual Conduct in the Second Degree on Thursday, May 22, in Lexington County General Sessions Court. The Honorable Benjamin Culbertson sentenced Velasquez-Rocha to 20 years in prison. Under South Carolina law, Criminal Sexual Conduct in the Second Degree is classified as a violent […]
Lexington County deputies have arrested a man they said drove to Chicago to pick up a 12-year-old girl and brought her back to South Carolina. Hector Leonel Lopez-Nunez, 20, is charged with third-degree criminal sexual conduct with a minor, contributing to the delinquency of a minor and misrepresenting his identity to law enforcement, according to […]
Man turned himself in, in connection with a domestic violence case
Brian F. Rose, Jr., of West Columbia, pled guilty on Wednesday, April 23, in Lexington County General Sessions Court to Distribution of Narcotics – second offense. This offense resulted in the death of 15 year old Tara Sanderson on Jan. 26, 2022 due to a fentanyl overdose. Rose was sentenced to 20 years for distributing […]
Vernon Jenkins, a 42-year-old man from New Jersey, Altariq Cole, a 39-year-old man from New Jersey, and Dyshawn Hines, a 42-year-old man from New Jersey, were all convicted last week by a Lexington County jury and sentenced to thirty (30) years in prison for their roles in a shooting that took place at the Country […]
The Lexington County Sheriff’s Department is asking for the public’s help in a missing person case. Drayton Lucas, 24, went missing the morning of Feb. 8, according to his family. They say he walked away from their home on Whetstone Road in Swansea. It’s possible he was headed toward Orangeburg County.Drayton is 5’10 and 150 […]
A former administrative employee of the Lexington County Sheriff’s Department is accused of obtaining goods under false pretenses, according to the State Law Enforcement Division. SLED agents arrested Shekinah Shyann Sade Brown, 24, after she turned herself in Tuesday morning at the Lexington County Sheriff’s Department’s headquarters. “When I became aware of Ms. Brown’s alleged […]
Attorney General Alan Wilson announced that, on Wednesday, after a three-day trial, a Lexington County jury found Mark Frick, 57, guilty of Criminal Solicitation of a Minor and Attempted Sexual Exploitation of a Minor, First Degree. The Honorable Judge Debra McCaslin sentenced Frick to 10 years in prison on the Attempted Sexual Exploitation charge and […]