COLUMBIA – On Wednesday, March 7 around 6:20 p.m. at Jeep Rogers Family YMCA at Lake Carolina, Richland County Sheriff’s deputies responded to the report of theft from two motor vehicles. The suspect broke into the victim’s vehicle by smashing out the rear passenger window. The suspect then stole a Michael Kors purse, valued at $200, […]
Lake Carolina Elementary gives back
March 22, 2018 By
BLYTHEWOOD – As a service learning project, student leaders at Lake Carolina Upper Campus presented a $300 check to the Richland County Sheriff’s Department Foundation and over 200 police officer survival kits.
Prostitution sting nets 16
February 22, 2018 By
RIDGEWAY – An undercover prostitution sting conducted by a tri-county task force that included the Fairfield County and Richland County Sheriffs’ Departments at the Ramada Inn in Ridgeway last Friday and Saturday night netted 16 arrests for prostitution and/or possession of drugs and/or possession with intent to distribute. Using the Backpage website, undercover officers made […]
UPDATE – Teen charged as adult for school threat
February 22, 2018 By
BLYTHEWOOD – A 17-year-old has been accused of threatening to “shoot up” Westwood High School Friday morning, according to the Richland County Sheriff’s Department. On Feb 16, at approximately 8 a.m., the Sheriff’s Department was alerted to a Twitter post made by Hilliard threatening Westwood. He was charged with unlawful communication and disturbing schools, Sheriff […]
Routine checkpoint becomes high speed chase
February 1, 2018 By
RIDGEWAY – A high speed chase that began in Ridgeway, ended on Garner’s Ferry Road and reached 123 miles per hour, resulted in attempted murder charges for Michael Odell Lewis, 24, of Columbia. The incident began during an early evening traffic safety check conducted by the Fairfield County Sheriff’s Department at the intersection of Syrup […]
Gunshot fired through window of Blythewood home
February 1, 2018 By
BLYTHEWOOD – A Blythewood family was not at home on the afternoon of Jan. 12 when a bullet came crashing through the breakfast room window of their home and traveled through a kitchen cabinet, into the dining room before embedding into an adjacent wall. “It had to have happened between 11:30 a.m. and 12:30 p.m. […]
RCSD still investigating BHS threats
February 1, 2018 By
BLYTHEWOOD – Several students have been suspended but no criminal charges have been filed after threatening comments were reported at Blythewood High School last week. A student’s email to administrators reported “overhearing threatening comments by several students.” While Richland County sheriff’s deputies have determined that there is “no credible threat to the school building, students, […]
13-year-old drowns in Lake Carolina
November 30, 2017 By
BLYTHEWOOD – A 13-year-old Lake Carolina boy, Jaylan Jones, slipped into the lake around 2 p.m. on Sunday and drowned, according to Richland County Coroner Gary Watts. His body was recovered about 4:30 p.m. that afternoon. According to Lt. Curtis Wilson of the Richland County Sheriff’s Department, a friend told deputies he and Jones were […]
