Lexington County Sheriff Jay Koon
Lexington County Coroner Margaret Fisher released the findings of an autopsy after the death of 2-year-old Remede Pridgen who died in the residential structure fire that occurred in the 500 block of Canal Drive in the Pelion area of Lexington County on Saturday.. Fisher states that the autopsy performed at MUSC in Charleston on Monday found […]
Robert Allen Gaffney, a 38-year-old man from Lexington County, has been convicted of Attempted Murder following a plea entered on Thursday, March 13. The Honorable Walton J. McLeod IV sentenced Gaffney to 25 years in prison. Under South Carolina law, the Attempted Murder charge is classified as a violent crime and is a “no parole” […]
Lexington County Coroner Margaret Fisher has identified the individual who died in a house fire that occurred in the 500 block of Canal Drive in the Pelion area of Lexington County shortly after 2 a.m., Saturday. According to Fisher, Miss Remede Prigden, 2, of Gaston, was pronounced dead at the scene. An autopsy is scheduled […]
David Matthews Jr., age 52, was convicted this week in Lexington County General Sessions Court on multiple counts of Trafficking Narcotics and Possession of a Weapon During a Violent Crime. Following a jury trial, Matthews was sentenced on Tuesday March 11. Circuit Court Judge William P. Keesley sentenced Matthews to 25 years in the S.C. […]
Ivy Tyrone Richardson, Jr., a 54-year-old Gaston man, has been sentenced to twenty (20) years in prison following his conviction on charges of two (2) counts of Assault and Battery of a High and Aggravated Nature and Discharging a Firearm into an Occupied Vehicle. Circuit Court Judge William P. Keesley imposed the sentence after a […]
Kayla Martin, 34, of Cayce, was sentenced to more than 10 years in federal prison after pleading guilty to drug trafficking. Evidence presented to the court showed that Martin and Michael Tart were arrested in April 2022 after Richland County Sheriff’s Department and Lexington County Sheriff’s Department investigators seized over a kilogram of methamphetamine and […]
South Carolina Attorney General Alan Wilson announced the arrest of Timothy Mark Mccullough (age 68), of West Columbia, and John Anthony Kayton (age 50), of Lexington, on six total charges connected to the sexual exploitation of minors. Internet Crimes Against Children (ICAC) Task Force investigators with the Lexington County Sheriff’s Department made the arrests in […]
The South Carolina Law Enforcement Division (SLED) charged Luther Jackson Truluck, 30, with Criminal Sexual Conduct with a Minor – Second Degree, and Contributing to the Delinquency of a Minor on Wednesday, Feb. 26. The Lexington County Sheriff’s Department asked SLED to investigate the case involving Truluck. He was an employee at Beechwood Middle School […]