Wednesday, May 22, 2013
Pair of bandits hit two restaurants over the course of three nights, report says.
Two men who robbed a pair of Clemson restaurants at gunpoint are being sought by authorities, Fox Carolina reported. Clemson police said the first robbery occurred May 14 at the Wendy's on Highway 123, when the suspects entered the restaurant around 10 p.m. and ordered employees on to the floor, stealing cash and the employees' cell phones, the report said. Clemson police believed the same two are responsible for another armed robbery at the Little Caesar's in downtown Clemson around 3 a.m. on May 17, Chief Jimmy Dixon told the station. No was injured in the two robberies, the report said. Dixon said police are offering a cash reward for information leading to the identity of the man in the attached surveillance photo and information …
Charges include possession of stolen property, financial transaction card fraud, criminal domestic violence
This information is provided by the Easley Police Department. An arrest does not indicate a conviction. May 17 Michelle F. Fowler, 42, of 103 Northway Drive, Easley, driving under suspension. Jennifer Lesley Burgess, 34, of 103 Park Drive, Easley, public disorderly conduct. Sandy Biles, Jr. 34, of 20 Lindberg Avenue, Greenville, grand larceny more than $2,000, less than $10,000. Boyd Andrew White, 26, of 116 Galerie Drive, Easley, possession of stolen property. Charles Murdock Tanksley, 53, of 100 Crestwood Forest Drive, Greenville, shoplifting – third or subsequent. Gary Shane Shipman, 51, of 224 Lakewood Drive, Clinton, petit larceny. Jesse A Redd, 24, of 918 Crestview Road C5, Easley, public disorderly conduct. Joshua Pete Thomas, 19, …
Tuesday, May 21, 2013
Albert Parsons, 76, was found unresponsive off the side of Highway 25 near Gap Creek Road. He was taken by ambulance to Greenville Memorial Hospital.
A 76-year-old Easley man reported missing from North Carolina was found Tuesday in northern Greenville County. Greenville County Sheriff's deputies received a call around 5:30 p.m. from the security gatehouse at the Cliffs Valley Community located at 2 Knightsridge Road. Deputies said the security guard told dispatchers that a man came to the gatehouse after finding a car with an unresponsive man on the side of Highway 25 near Gap Creek Road. The man, identified as Albert Francis Parson, had been the subject of a Silver Alert issued May 17 by the Asheville Police Department, after Parsons left an Asheville-based assisted-living center. Parsons was transported by ambulance to Greenville Memorial. According to the Silver Alert, Parson …
Suzanna Brown Simpson released from hospital Monday afternoon.
The woman suspected in the killings of her son and daughter and the attempted murder of her husband was due in court today, but the arraignment was canceled shortly before it was to start. Suzanna Brown Simpson is charged with murdering her daughter Carly, 7, her son Sawyer, 5, and attempting to kill her husband Michael Simpson. The bodies of the children were discovered in the Simpson home on Cherokee Trail in Dacusville last Tuesday. Pickens County Sheriff's Office Chief Deputy Creed Hashe said that Magistrate Ben Dow received a formal request from the Public Defenders Office asking that the arraignment hearing be waived. Simpson was released from Greenville Memorial Hospital yesterday afternoon. She is being held at the Pickens County …
The Pickens County Sheriff's Office said that there appears to be no foul play.
The Pickens County Sheriff's Office said a body found hanging near Alice Manufacturing Tuesday morning appears to be a suicide. A passing motorist called deputies to 212 Rice Road just after 7:15 a.m., after seeing what appeared to be a body hanging from a rope. Deputies said there does not appear to be any indicators of foul play and preliminary reports are that the incident is self-inflicted. The victim is an adult. No further information is being released at this time.
Suzanna Brown Simpson charged with murdering her two children and attempting to kill her husband.
The Dacusville woman suspected of killing her daughter and son and attempting to kill her husband will be in court this morning. Suzanna Brown Simpson was released yesterday afternoon from the hospital where she was being treated for injuries. Simpson will appear in front of a Pickens County Magistrate at 10am this morning to be arraigned on criminal charges, according to Chief Deputy Creed Hashe. She is charged with murdering her daughter Carly Simpson, 7, and her son Sawyer Simpson, 5 and attempting to kill her husband Michael Simpson. She also faces a weapons charge in connection with the shootings. 911 calls received the morning of Tuesday, May 14 following a single-vehicle accident on Cherokee Trail led to the discovery of the …
Charges include assault, distribution of meth, criminal domestic violence.
This information is provided by the Easley Police Department. An arrest does not indicate a conviction. May 14 Randall Lee Golden, 48, of 245 Hollow Way Road, Marietta, driving under suspension – 2nd, improper vehicle license, operating uninsured vehicle. James Michael Lyday, 40, of 112 Ginger Lane, Easley, assault 2nd degree. David Michael Johnson, 17, of 214 Butler Road, Easley, assault 3rd degree. Kayla LeeAnn Mathis, 19, of 100 Triggers Trace, Easley, assault 3rd degree. Audrey Meredith Adams, 24, of 412 Welcome Road, Greenville, distribution of methamphetamine. Amy Miranda Chastain, 32, of 2 Leland Circle, Greenville, possession with intent to distribute methamphetamines, possession of drug paraphernalia, driving under suspension – …
Monday, May 20, 2013
Latest crackdown and safety campaign will focus on nighttime seat belt usage.
Warning: Beginning today, SC state troopers and local police and sheriff's deputies will be on the lookout for drivers, specially nighttime drivers, who fail to wear safety belts as part of a coordinated crackdown statewide. From May 20 to June 2, the South Carolina Department of Public Safety and local law enforcement agencies will increase enforcement of South Carolina’s primary seat belt law as part of the Buckle Up South Carolina (BUSC) safety belt enforcement mobilization. SCDPS and local law agencies will focus its annual safety belt enforcement and education campaign on nighttime safety belt use. While daytime safety belt compliance continues to improve, a pocket of the population still fails to buckle up at night, leading to more …
Saturday, May 18, 2013
Community turns out to lift up the families of the victims of Tuesday's shootings.
The Dacusville community turned out in force Thursday afternoon “to express our heartfelt sympathy for the death of two beloved children, our concerns for a critically-wounded and for the soul of a broken mother,” said the Rev. Ashley McCoy-Bruce. The crowd gathered in front of Dacusville Elementary School to lift up in prayer and remember Carly and Sawyer Simpson, who were murdered on Tuesday, and their father Michael Simpson, who is hospitalized with critical injuries. Suzanna Brown Simpson, the children's mother and Michael's wife has been charged with two counts of murder, one count of attempted murder and a weapons charge. She will be transported to the Pickens County Detention Center when she is released from the hospital. “We are …
Friday, May 17, 2013
The calls led to discovery of children's bodies
The Pickens County Sheriff's Office has released the 911 calls that led to the discovery of the murders of two Dacusville children. The first 911 call concerns an accident that happened around 6 a.m. near 312 Cherokee Trail. The caller tells the dispatcher the vehicle has slammed into a tree, hard enough to uproot the tree. “They are hurt, if they are not dead,” the caller tells the dispatcher. The second caller tells dispatch that a woman has been injured in the accident. The second caller then calls back and tells dispatch that the woman involved in the accident is his neighbor and that he cannot get her husband or children to come to the door, even though the husband's vehicle is still parked in the driveway. “Something's not right,” he…
Pickens Resident
8:14 am on Tuesday, May 21, 2013
Praying for Suzanna Simpsons family....the horror they must feel and the whispers and finger pointing they are having to endure because of her. Please remember that her family did not do this horrific crime do not judge them based on anothers actions more ›