The Edgefield County Sheriff’s Office made 3 arrests and confiscated what is believed to be illegal drugs and alcohol from 2 different residences in separate raids conducted on Friday, Dec. 14. According to reports filed with the ECSO, in the first incident, two men were arrested on drug charges after deputies with the narcotics unit […]
The Edgefield County Sheriff’s Office responded to a call of counterfeit money at McDonalds, Monday, Dec. 17. Upon arriving, an employee with the restaurant informed deputies that an unidentified black male attempted to pay for his purchase with a counterfeit fifty dollar bill. The bill was discovered to be a forgery by the use of […]
According to reports filed by the Edgefield County Sheriff’s Office, 2 more auto break-ins and an auto theft occurred at the beginning of the month. In the first reported break-in, on Dec. 6 at 610 Rainbow Falls Rd., one vehicle located on a lot sustained damage when its steering column was cracked open. Another vehicle […]
Between the late evening hours of Tuesday, Nov. 27, and the early morning hours of Wednesday, Nov. 28, a total of 11 vehicles break-ins occurred in the southern portion of Edgefield County. According to reports filed by the Edgefield County Sheriff’s Office, 3 break-ins happened at homes on Phoenix Court, 2 at Currytown Blvd., 3 […]
More than 60 area police officers and sheriff’s deputies were trained earlier this year in conducting public safety checkpoints. The training was sponsored by the Community Action for a Safer Edgefield coalition, a local group seeking to reduce DUI crashes in Edgefield County. “Edgefield County recently ranked sixth in the state in the percentage of […]
The Edgefield County Sheriff’s Office has recovered 4 of the 6 guns stolen in a recent burglary at a residence on Tennessee Walker Lane in Trenton. The burglary was reported on Oct. 11, 2012 after the homeowner returned home to find the firearms missing. There was no forced entry at the scene but evidence was […]
According to a report filed with the Edgefield County Sheriff’s Office, Wednesday, Nov. 14, two counterfeit $100 bills were tendered on two different occasions at the McDonald’s on Augusta Road in Edgefield. Alledgedly, an employee with the establishment made two separate purchases at the location in which she paid for items each time with a […]
Hacker illegally obtained credit card and Social Security numbers. State will provide credit monitoring and identity theft protection to taxpayers. COLUMBIA, S.C. – The S.C. Department of Revenue today announced that approximately 3.6 million Social Security numbers and 387,000 credit and debit card numbers have been exposed in a cyber attack. Of the credit cards, the […]
Edgefield County Has Lowest Violent Crime Rate in SC – The Edgefield County Sheriff’s Office issued a press release in which they highlighted a recent report by the South Carolina Law Enforcement Division that ranks Edgefield County has having the lowest violent crime rate of all 46 counties in SC. The 2010 edition of Crime […]
The Edgefield County Sheriff’s Office responded to a burglary call on Youngblood Road, Monday, Oct. 15. Upon arrival, deputies found that a flat screen television as well as a safe containing numerous firearms were missing. While guns being stolen from county residences is, unfortunately, not a unique occurrence of late, this burglary was somewhat different […]