Lexington County Sheriff Jay Koon
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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Lexington County deputies have arrested a Little Mountain man accused of shooting an unarmed man to death Monday. Nathan Thomas Caldwell, 20, is charged with murder and possession of a weapon during a violent crime, according to arrest warrants. “After reviewing the information they gathered during their investigation, detectives determined Caldwell and the shooting victim […]
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Lexington County Coroner Margaret Fisher has released the cause and manner of death for Mr. Bernice Junior Smith, III. Fisher stated that Smith was apprehended by the Lexington County Sheriff’s Department during a warrant service on Aug. 9, Mr. Smith became unresponsive after apprehension and was transported to a local hospital where he was pronounced […]
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Attorney General Alan Wilson announced that, on Sept. 19, Sam Smith pleaded guilty to one count of Sexual Exploitation of a Minor, Third Degree in Lexington County before the Honorable Judge William Keesley. The investigation of Smith began after a user of a file-sharing network had made available for download files of child sexual abuse […]
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A Lexington man is accused of fatally shooting a man early Saturday morning. Dez’Mond Keon Miller, 25, is charged with murder and possession of a weapon during a violent crime, according to arrest warrants. “During their investigation, detectives determined that Miller entered a home in the 2000 block of Capitol View Drive and shot the […]
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