Assault on Child with Vinyl Siding
Laurens City Police arrested a man yesterday for an alleged Saturday assault on a child. 36-year-old James ONeil Wright of 135 Dragon Trail, Laurens was charged with Assault and Battery 2nd Degree....
View ArticleForgery
The Sheriff’s Office arrested a Joanna woman Friday alleging a case of Forgery. 38-year-old Tanya Leigh Pressley Eclavea of 101 Hawkins Circle, Joanna is accused of publishing a $500 check on June 27th...
View ArticleAuto Break-in Allegedly Witnessed
The Sheriff’s Office was dispatched to Highway 49 outside Laurens at 3:48 Saturday morning after a family friend driving by a residence had observed a man standing by the friend’s truck. Officer...
View ArticleWaterloo Man & Woman Charged with Arson
The Sheriff’s Office responded to a house fire at Shaw Court at 3:19 Saturday afternoon. A mobile home was reportedly destroyed by fire and arson was suspected. A SLED arson team was called to the...
View ArticleClinton Traffic Stop Leads to Drug & Firearms Charges
A Greenwood man was charged with drug and firearms violations this weekend following a traffic stop Saturday afternoon. Clinton Public Safety Officer Thomas Scott Peay was conducting stationary radar...
View ArticleDrugs Stolen
A Laurens woman filed a report with Laurens Police yesterday afternoon about the theft of hydrocodone and oxycodone from her home on Independence Avenue. She said that pain medicine she had for use...
View ArticleWoman Charged with Scratching Truck Door
Clinton Public Safety has charged a local woman with scratching a man’s truck this past weekend. The charges came after a report of a text Saturday from the woman, reportedly upset about the...
View ArticleBrothers Throw Wood at Each Other
A fight where two brothers reportedly threw pieces of wood at each other was reported on North Sloan Street Sunday evening. Clinton Public Safety was dispatched at 8:17 pm and was told that one of the...
View ArticleDowntown Clinton Break-In & Theft
Clinton Public Safety was dispatched to a downtown store on Main at 8:15 yesterday morning. The owner said she arrived to open the store and found a right front window panel had been broken. $200 was...
View ArticleArrest Cites Assault & Window Damage
Laurens City Police yesterday served charges on a man from an incident last weekend. Officers were called to an apartment on Independence Avenue Saturday where a woman reported an altercation....
View ArticleCharges from Multiple Agencies
A man was delivered to the Laurens County Detention Center shortly before midnight last night with charges pending. 33-year-old Tory Christopher Horne of 602 Thompson Road, Fountain Inn was served with...
View ArticleInterested in Attending a US Service Academy?
Do you have a high school student in your family who has an interest in attending the US Military Academy, Naval Academy, Air Force, Merchant Marine or Coast Guard Academy? The office of United States...
View ArticleDrug Charge Follows Disorderly Ticket
The Sheriff’s Office was dispatched last Friday night at 10:33 to the Royal Food Store at 24824 Highway 76 East, Clinton on report of a man who was jumping on three females at that location. One of the...
View ArticleCounterfeit Money Being Presented
The Laurens County Sheriff’s Office was notified yesterday morning about multiple people attempting to use counterfeit money at a store in the Green Pond Road area of the county recently. Deputy Brad...
View ArticleHighway Deaths Up Locally, Down for State
The South Carolina Department of Public Safety announced yesterday that 8 people were killed on state highway this past weekend, based on preliminary numbers. That brings the total deaths on South...
View ArticleTrombone & More Taken
A report at the Sheriff’s Office indicates a local resident has reported the theft of items from his vehicle on Lee Cary Road north of Laurens late last week. The owner informed an officer Friday that...
View ArticleTore Up the Yard
A Waterloo woman reported vandalism to her property to the Sheriff’s Office yesterday morning. She said that between 5pm Friday and 10 yesterday morning someone was driving a vehicle in her yard and...
View Article“Umbrella Man” Strikes
You may recall reports lately of people stealing items from unlocked cars in Laurens. Multiple vehicles from one neighborhood are sometimes entered overnight, but not always in the same neighborhood....
View ArticleTruck Missing, Female Visitor Also Gone
Sheriff’s Sgt. Nick Moye was advised at 7:38 last night of a vehicle theft in Northern Laurens County. A Gray Court man said he had left one of his trucks at his father’s house on Kimbark Lane,...
View ArticleBack in Custody on Ill Treatment of Animals
One of the women arrested last year on Ill Treatment of Animal charges due to conditions found at their residence just outside Laurens was back in Laurens County’s Detention Center yesterday....
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