Lexington County Sheriff Jay Koon
Deputies have arrested a person of interest in connection to a death investigation. Jesse Lee Gregory, 34, is being held in the Detention Center on a single count of desecration of human remains and other charges not related to the ongoing death investigation. Gregory is accused of discarding the body of a shooting victim at […]
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Lexington County Sheriff’s Department Deputies were at the intersection of Old Barnwell Road and White Knoll Way Sunday afternoon as part of our investigation into a shooting. One man was shot. No details have been released regarding his injuries or condition. The LCSD believes it was an isolated incident.Deputies were working to identify any involved […]
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Kenneth Eddy Frye, 58, Christopher David Jeffcoat, 42, and Jerry Lynn Cordell, 41, were sentenced today for their involvement in a methamphetamine drug conspiracy that occurred in Lexington County. Evidence presented to the Court during their guilty plea hearing revealed that Frye, Jeffcoat, and Cordell were involved in distributing methamphetamine in Lexington County. The Lexington […]
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South Carolina Attorney General Alan Wilson announced the arrest of Lawrence Albert Threatt (age 45) of Frederick, MD, on six charges connected to the attempted sexual exploitation of a minor. Internet Crimes Against Children (ICAC) Task Force investigators with the Mount Pleasant Police Department made the arrest. Investigators with the Lexington County Sheriff’s Department, also […]
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The leader of a local street gang, Carlos Antonio Grooms, a/k/a “B Lord,” 36, of Columbia, was sentenced to 30 years in federal prison, following a federal drug conspiracy conviction. Three co-conspirators were also sentenced to federal prison for their role in the scheme. Between 2020 and 2022, Grooms led a drug trafficking organization that […]
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From the Lexington County Sheriff’s Department – William Bruce Parker, a/k/a “Parker,” a/k/a “Willie Boner,” a/k/a “John Wayne,” of West Columbia, pled guilty to Cyberstalking Resulting in Serious Bodily Injury and Communicating Threats with the Intent to Extort victims for the production of pornography and coerced sex acts. U.S. District Judge Cameron McGowan Currie accepted […]
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The Lexington County Sheriff’s Department is investigating a shooting that happened Saturday morning in the 200 block of Two Notch Road in Lexington. One man was shot. No information about his condition has been given. Detectives were talking to neighbors in the area in an effort to collect statements. Crime scene investigators were gathering potential […]
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Lexington County Sheriff Jay Koon spoke to a standing-room-only crowd at the Cayce-West Columbia Chamber Morning Business Meeting at Stone River in West Columbia, Tuesday. He gave some background information about himself and an overview of his time as sheriff. Koon was elected sheriff in 2015. He said in his tenure he has encountered a […]
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