Lexington County Sheriff Jay Koon
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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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, […]
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