Lexington County Sheriff Jay Koon
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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Lexington County narcotics agents arrested a Gaston man after finding more than 800 grams of meth inside his home. Michael Anthony Dolan Jr., 42, is charged with trafficking methamphetamine greater than 400 grams, possession of a Schedule IV narcotic, possession of a Schedule III narcotic, possession of a weapon during a violent crime, possession of […]
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South Carolina Attorney General Alan Wilson announced that, on Thursday, James Joseph Patterson, III, 26, of Columbia, was convicted by a Lexington County jury of murder and possession of a weapon during the commission of a violent crime. Judge Daniel Hall sentenced him to 30 years for murder and five years on the weapons charge, […]
Read More >> Lexington County Coroner Margaret Fisher has released the identity of the two people who died as a result of a domestic incident/home invasion that took place shortly before 1:30 a.m., Wednesday, in the 100 block of Prismatic Way in Lexington. Fisher states that Mr. Jamal A. Walker, of Columbia shot and killed his ex-wife Ms. […]
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The woman killed during a Lexington County home invasion after 1:36 a.m., Wednesday was the ex-wife of the man who shot her, according to Lexington County Sheriff Jay Koon. He and Lexington Police Chief Terrence Green held a press conference around 9:30 a.m. Wednesday to give more details of the overnight incident that result in […]
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