According to arrest warrants, Randy Gene Jones, 63, knowingly and willfully assisted in the suicide sometime between the afternoon of Dec. 20 and the morning of Dec. 21. Lexington County Coroner Margaret Fisher has identified the victim as Karen Jones. Jones is also charged with malicious injury to property for destroying several items inside the […]
Lexington County deputies have arrested an 18-year-old West Columbia resident for removing boxes from residential doorsteps shortly after the packages had been delivered. Ryan Andrew Huff has been charged with petit larceny in the theft of packages from more than two dozen homes on Dec. 18. Investigators said Huff had been a part-time seasonal employee […]
Lexington County Sheriff’s Department investigators have busted three massage parlors as part of an undercover operation targeting prostitution. Four workers associated with the Sunset Spa and the Relax Massage in Lexington and the Palmetto Sun Massage in West Columbia have been charged with prostitution. -Sun Ah Cho, 34 -Ae Seon Lee, 47 -Ok J Park, […]
Lexington County Sheriff’s Department detectives have charged Sean Patrick Peters with murder in the shooting death of his estranged wife, Rachel Naomi Peters. According to arrest warrants, Mr. Peters, 37, unlawfully entered Mrs. Peters’ residence in the 4200 block of Greenwood Drive in West Columbia and fatally shot her. “Deputies responded to the home after […]