Hampton County
Sheriff’s Office participating in Hands Across The Border
The Hampton County Sheriff’s Office will be participating in the Hands Across The Border DUI Enforcement Campaign tonight and throughout the holiday weekend. The agency is a part of the 14th Judicial Circuit Law Enforcement Network. More…
Letter to editor
Roy Flannagan rebuts former Chief Jeff Dowling
Since my testimony has been impeached by former Chief Dowling, I need to defend my reporting. More…
Letter to editor
Former Beaufort chief challenges downtown crime concerns
I take issue with comments such as Roy Flannagan’s concerning the police being in “collusion” with drug dealers. To make a statement such as this without coming forward to report the officers that he thinks are in “collusion” indicates a fabricated story. More…
Roy Flannagan writes about local crime:
Problems of petty theft, grand larceny and muggings
Picture this: not long ago, an elderly man in the Northwest Quadrant saw an adolescent take a bike from his front porch and start peddling down the street. The elderly gent, quite fit, gave chase. The kid on the bike had some trouble with the drive chain on the bike and had to stop to fix it. Meanwhile, three or four other kids came out of their houses to make fun of the spectacle of the older man running towards the thief as the thief tried to fix the chain. The thief gave up and started pushing the bike down the street under his own power. The other kids remained, mocking the older man chasing their friend. More…
Hampton/Allendale Counties
LEN Conducts DUI Safety Checkpoints
The 14th Judicial Circuit Law Enforcement Network held DUI Safety Checkpoints on Friday and Saturday, August 13 and 14, in Hampton and Allendale Counties. More…
August 27
The Beaufort County Sheriff’s Office Traffic Enforcement Team will be conducting a traffic safety checkpoint on Friday, August 27, 2010 from 10:00 p.m. until 12:00 a.m. in Beaufort. More…
Arrested by Beaufort Police Department
Adrian Jenkins, who was wanted for armed robbery, was located and arrested by Beaufort Police Department patrol officers at 12:15 this afternoon, Monday, August 23, according to a press release by Chief Matthew Clancy.
Beaufort
The individual listed on this poster is wanted in connection with the armed robbery of an individual that took place on the evening of Monday, August 9 in a parking lot off of Bay Street. More…
Beaufort
Rash of muggings and a robbery in Bay Street commercial area of downtown
Responding to an inquiry today, August 17, by The Beaufort Tribune, Chief Matthew Clancy of the Beaufort Police Department has disclosed that three nighttime muggings and a robbery have recently taken place in the Bay Street commercial area of downtown Beaufort. All four of these reported crimes have occurred in the 800 and 900 blocks of Bay Street, location of downtown bars and restaurants, the downtown marina, and the downtown waterfront park. More…
Letter to editor
Why are downtown Beaufort crimes not being reported by local press?
Dear Editor,
I am trying to discover why the public is not more aware of the escalating crime occurring in downtown Beaufort. More…
Alton Aimar says
A pattern of increasing criminal activity downtown Beaufort
On Tuesday, July 27, 2010, I met with Mayor Keyserling and Police Chief Matt Clancy at Police Headquarters. We met to discuss the increased criminal activity occurring in the Core Commercial/Waterfront Park/Marina area in downtown Beaufort. More…
Beaufort Police Chief Matthew Clancy responds
While I disagree with Alton Aimar’s recollection of our meeting and the facts shared with him, I do applaud his interest in maintaining Beaufort’s tranquility. Having been a victim of property crimes myself in the past, I can empathize with the sting that he feels from having his car broken into. More…
Letter to editor
Underneath beautiful facade Beaufort is full of crime, mayor promotes appearance over safety
I have made Beaufort my home for more than 35 years now. As a matter of fact it has been 38. I was born and raised here as the first child born in Beaufort in 1972. Over the years I have been more than proud to show off the town I call home. Much of this is due in part to the fact that for more than three decades Beaufort has been a serene, peaceful town on the beautiful Beaufort River. More…
Hilton Head Island
Barricaded man subdued and taken into custody safely
After several hours of negotiations, a man barricaded in his Hilton Head Plantation home was successfully taken into custody by members of the Beaufort County Sheriff’s Office SWAT Team, according to a press release. More…
Hilton Head Island
Man barricades himself in home
The Beaufort County Sheriff’s Office was engaged in an incident with a barricaded subject on Hilton Head Island, Wednesday night, August 18 according to a press release. More…
Bluffton
Man comes home to masked intruder armed with handgun
The Beaufort County Sheriff’s Office is investigating an alleged burglary that occurred Tuesday night, August 17, at a home on Whites Lane, according to a press release. More…
Charleston newspaper report
Murder victim was mother of infant twin boys
Alexis Lukaitis, the Bluffton murder victim whose dead body was discovered by loggers on a rural dirt road in Charleston County early Monday morning, was the mother to infant twin boys according to a Charleston newspaper report published online today in The Post and Courier. More…
Accused murderer Davold Lavar Drayton formerly convicted of lewd act on a child
Darold Lavar Drayton, the 32-year-old Bluffton man who goes by many aliases and was accused today of murdering 27-year-old Alexis Lukaitis, was convicted on January 6, 2005, of committing a lewd act upon a child under the age of 16, according to the South Carolina Law Enforcement Division’s (SLED) website. SLED’s records show that Drayton was placed on probation three years later on January 5, 2008 after having failed to register as a convicted sex offender as required by law.. More…
Unregistered sex offender charged in Lukaitis murder
Alexis Lukaitis, murder victim
Darold Lavar Drayton, accused murdere
A 32-year-old Bluffton man has been arrested in connection with the murder of 27-year Alexis Lukaitis, whose body was discovered along a roadway in Charleston on Monday.
Darold Lavar Drayton of May River Road in Bluffton was charged with one count of Murder by Charleston County Sheriff’s Office investigators this afternoon, Thursday, August 12, according to a press release from the Beaufort County Sheriff’s Office. Drayton, who was arrested yesterday by Beaufort County Sheriff’s Office investigators on unrelated charges including failure to register as a sex offender, was considered a person of interest in the initial missing person investigation. More…
Bluffton
Update: Twenty-seven year old missing woman found dead on roadside
The search for a Bluffton woman reported missing Monday morning, August 9, has ended with the confirmed discovery of her body on a Charleston County roadside, according to a Sheriff’s Department press release. More…
