The higher Spartanburg residents Lee Berry, Rick Bryant and Austin Bryant hiked up Cold Mountain in the Shining Rock Wilderness Area of North Carolina, the thicker the rhododendrons grew, and the harder their search for a missing plane became.
After hours of looking, the three Civil Air Patrol members were first at the scene of the crash where the bodies of Florida pastor Forrest Pollock, 44, and his son Preston Pollock, 13, were found Tuesday morning.
The father, pilot and pastor at Bell Shoals Baptist Church in Brandon, Fla., took off from the Rutherford County, N.C., airport early Monday, headed to Arkansas. The Pollock family had been in North Carolina to see the pastor’s mother on Mother’s Day.
Spartanburg County sheriff's deputies are searching for a copper thief with a new target: cell phone towers.
Nine copper thefts from towers have been reported to the sheriff's office in recent months, causing more than $10,000 in damage and the loss of at least $2,500 in copper. Maj. Dan Johnson with the sheriff's office said investigators think the same person or group of people is committing the thefts.
"A good 15 to 20 percent of our property crime reports usually have something to do with metal thefts," Johnson said. "Cell towers are just very infrequent compared to homes under construction, homes for rent."
Sheriff's office seeks second man in attempted burglary
Spartanburg County sheriff's deputies arrested one teenager and are looking for a second man after a short chase ended in a crash Tuesday morning.
Ryan Marquese Bennett, 17, of 610 North Towne Court was charged with failure to stop for blue lights, attempted burglary and no driver's license. A second person in the vehicle with Bennett has not been identified.
The incident began when officers were called to First Cash Pawn, 1120 Asheville Highway, just before 4 a.m. in reference to an alarm. A deputy saw a gold sedan in the alley behind the business, and the driver took off after the officer activated his blue lights and siren, according to the sheriff's office. The deputy gave chase, and the driver lost control of the vehicle in the area of Sullivan Drive, striking a tree.
Sheriff’s deputies arrest teen after chase ends in crash
Spartanburg County sheriff’s deputies arrested one teenager and are looking for a second man after a short chase ended in a crash this morning.
Ryan Marquese Bennett, 17, of 610 North Towne Court was charged with failure to stop for blue lights, attempted burglary and no driver’s license. A second person in the vehicle with Bennett has not been identified.
The incident began when officers were called to First Cash Pawn, 1120 Asheville Highway, just before 4 a.m. in reference to an alarm. A deputy saw a gold sedan in the alley behind the business, and the driver took off after the officer activated his blue lights and siren, according to the sheriff’s office. The deputy gave chase, and the driver lost control of the vehicle in the area of Sullivan Drive, striking a tree.
A Greer woman fatally shot Monday morning had taken out a restraining order last week against a man police now believe opened fire on her car as she left for work.
Sheila Ann Grayson, 41, of 156 Bellamy Close died after suffering multiple gunshot wounds to the upper body and crashing her car into a house at the corner of Bellamy Close and
Burlwood Drive, said Greer police Lt. Eric Pressley. Officers have charged Robert Emory Irby, 44, of 408 Blacks Road, Greenville, with murder.
A 38-year-old Spartanburg woman told police she was robbed of her purse shortly before 10 a.m. Monday near the intersection of North Fairview Avenue and East Main Street.
The woman said she was attempting to walk across East Main Street when a man grabbed her purse from behind her, and she screamed. The two fought over the purse, and the man repeatedly yelled for her to shut up before pulling the purse away and running down North Fairview Avenue.
A 17-year-old Spartanburg woman told police a man she knows only by the name of "Li'l Daddy" fired three shots at her vehicle, with one striking the driver's-side door, Sunday night off Howard Street.
Greer police investigating death of woman, 41, shot in her car
Greer police are investigating the death of a woman who was fatally shot in her car early Monday.
Sheila Grayson, 41, of 156 Bellamy Close died after suffering multiple gunshot wounds to the upper body and crashing her car into a house at the corner of Bellamy Close and Burlwood Drive, said police Lt. Eric Pressley. Investigators are interviewing a man who turned himself in to police in Mauldin but have not charged him with any crime, he said.
“We are speaking to a person of interest right now who’s cooperating with us, but we don’t have any warrants yet, and we’re not ready to make an arrest,” Pressley said Monday afternoon. He declined to say what relationship that person had with Grayson but said the shooting did not appear to be “at random.”
Sunday will be a Mother's Day that, unfortunately, Brenda Brewer will never forget. It will mark the day a couple of children found her baby's body in the woods.
Police are treating the death of 17-year-old Marion Brewer as a homicide.
They said he was partially clothed, and that cash was found on the ground near his body. They said they think what started out as a robbery turned deadly.
Four friends set up camp alongside the Broad River near Blacksburg Saturday afternoon. Only three would come home.
Of the four, 17-year-old Anthony Bernard Fair Jr. was the youngest. His body was pulled from the river at about 9 p.m., according to Cherokee County Coroner Dennis Fowler. Fair was found about 15 feet from the shore in water about 10 feet deep - about 100 yards from the spillway of the Broad River Electric Hydro Dam.
He couldn't swim, his mother told investigators. Between the news release and television reports, though, there's different accounts as to whether she felt he would have gone into the river.
