Lexington County Sheriff Jay Koon
Lexington County deputies have arrested a man accused of attacking a woman outside her home and stalking her at her job. Joey Miles Strickland, 41, is charged with first-degree assault and battery, kidnapping, and stalking, according to arrest warrants. “The sequence of events between Strickland and the woman started Jan. 14 at a gas station,” […]
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A White Knoll High School teacher is accused of assaulting a student at the school. Fritzie Suerto Refamonte, 45, is charged with third-degree assault and battery, according to an arrest warrant. “When we became aware of this incident, we opened an investigation and determined Refamonte allegedly assaulted the student Jan. 14,” Lexington County Sheriff Jay […]
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A man and a woman face drug charges after a tip from the public led narcotics agents to an apartment on South Lake Drive in Lexington County last week. “Investigators with the Lexington County Multi-Agency Narcotics Enforcement Team arrested 34-year-old Ansel Yameen Sparrow and 21-year-old Victoria Katherine Harley Thursday at an apartment complex in the […]
Read More >> South Carolina Attorney General Alan Wilson announced the arrest of Jake Brady Ergle (age 38) of Batesburg-Leesville, S.C., on one charge connected to the sexual exploitation of minors. Internet Crimes Against Children (ICAC) Task Force investigators with the Lexington County Sheriff’s Department made the arrest. Investigators with the Attorney General’s Office, also a member of […]
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South Carolina Attorney General Alan Wilson announced that his office’s Vulnerable Adults and Medicaid Provider Fraud unit (VAMPF) has arrested John Lemuel Morrell Jr, 60-years-old, of Lexington, for Exploitation of a Vulnerable Adult and Grand Larceny, value $10,000 or more. Morrell was booked into the Lexington County Detention Center, Friday. An investigation by VAMPF revealed […]
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Jake Rupert, 40, of Lexington, was sentenced to two years in federal prison after pleading guilty to walkaway escape from a federal residential re-entry facility. Evidence obtained in the investigation revealed that on the morning of March 5, 2024, Rupert walked away, without permission, from a federal halfway house in Columbia. In January 2024, Rupert […]
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South Carolina Attorney General Alan Wilson announced the arrest of Zachary Collins Woodward, (age 30) of Lexington, S.C., on six charges connected to the sexual exploitation of a minor. Internet Crimes Against Children (ICAC) Task Force investigators with the Lexington County Sheriff’s Department made the arrest. Investigators with the Attorney General’s Office, also a member […]
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Lexington County Sheriff’s Deputies are asking for your help in finding 21-year-old Tony Bernard Gantt. Gantt is wanted on two counts of assault and battery of a high and aggravated nature in connection to a home invasion that resulted in a death last month near Gaston. He is also accused of armed robbery, among other […]
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