Lexington County Sheriff Jay Koon
A bomb threat was reported at Lexington Medical Center, Wednesday. The Lexington County Sheriff’s Department and the Lexington Medical Center Public Safety Department investigated it. An “All Clear” was issued after 3 p.m. Wednesday. The bomb threat came via a phone call to a physician’s practice in Lexington Park 2, at 146 East Hospital Drive […]
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Israel Mendoza Cervantes, 29, has been sentenced to thirty (30) years in prison following a jury trial in Lexington County General Sessions Court earlier last week. Cervantes was convicted on all charges, including Trafficking Heroin (28 grams or more); Possession of a Weapon during commission of a Violent Crime; and Possession with Intent to Distribute […]
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A West Columbia man accused of fatally shooting a man during a roadside shootout Thursday night is in custody. Cleveland Stone Jr., 21, faces multiple charges including murder and possession of a weapon during a violent crime, according to investigators. Michael Duane Funny, 66, died after being shot on Glenn Road about 8:30 Thursday night, […]
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Lexington County deputies are investigating a shooting in the 100 block of Glenn Road. A 911 call reporting gunshots came in about 8:15, p.m. Thursday. Three people were shot. No word on their condition. Deputies have secured the scene. There is no ongoing threat to the public. Investigators believe the shooting is an isolated incident. […]
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Lexington County deputies arrested a man Wednesday after he started two pursuits and crashed into a patrol vehicle. Devon Ray Shealy, 21, faces multiple charges including first-degree assault, four counts of failure to stop for blue lights, four counts of reckless driving and one count of larceny, according to Lexington County Sheriff Jay Koon. “Deputies saw […]
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The 11th Circuit Solicitor’s Office announced the 15-year sentence of a Lexington County man convicted of criminal sexual conduct and burglary in unrelated cases. Registered Sex Offender Sentenced to 15 Years for the Sexual Battery of a 14-Year-Old Girl in Lexington County Last week, Timothy Michael Jones, Jr., age 33, pled guilty to Criminal Sexual […]
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Lexington County Coroner releases names of murder-suicide victims of Ermine Road shooting of July 26
Lexington County Coroner Margaret Fisher has released the autopsy findings in regards to Mr. Philip Calvin Jackson, 45, of Lexington. Mr. Jackson was pronounced dead at the scene in the 400 block of Ermine Road in West Columbia on July 26. Mrs. Sabrina Jackson, the estranged wife of Mr. Jackson sustained a single gunshot wound […]
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South Carolina Attorney General Alan Wilson announced the arrest of Tyron Demarcus Napleon Wise (age 30), of Lexington, S.C., Drew Carson Alexander (30), of Cayce, S.C., and Hatwell Tyler Keenum (age 36), of Batesburg, S.C., on 11 total charges connected to the sexual exploitation of minors. Internet Crimes Against Children (ICAC) Task Force investigators with the […]
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