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Hide Your Valuables

When you head out to Plaza Fiesta for shopping or playtime, go ahead and leave your valuables at home or take them in with you. But don’t leave them in your car.
A thief broke into a van parked at Fort Mill’s Plaza Fiesta Sunday night, stealing $325 in electronic equipment, $100 cash and a [...]



How To Pick Just One?

There are two things that bother me about this story from The Herald:
A Fort Mill woman told police Sunday that her estranged husband may be coming to her apartment and stealing her prescription medication…About seven to nine of her 20-milligram Oxycontin and 10 to 15 of her Oxycodone pills were taken from a lock box [...]



Crime Watch: Find This Man

The search is on for a Fort Mill man who allegedly brandishing a gun and assaulting his former girlfriend. His name is Eric Neil Patton and The Herald is reporting that Patton “faces two counts of assault and battery of a high and aggravated nature, two counts of kidnapping, criminal sexual conduct, and pointing [...]



I Guess Giving Up Smoking For Lent Wasn’t Working Out

This from the Fort Mill Times about two possibly-related robberies in our area:
In Fort Mill, police discovered a blood soaked paper towel and a paper bag marred with multiple blood stains at the scene. Taken was multiple cartons of cigarettes and 50 packs of cigarettes, a police report shows.
So finding the perps should be easy [...]



Maybe He Needed a Flashlight?

The closest I’ve come to playing golf (besides putt putt) is when my husband and I were visiting friends that lived in Hawaii and they took us to a driving range near Diamond Head. I don’t know if it was the fact we were on vacation, or the fact that we were surrounded by [...]



A New Petition

Some folks are not happy that Michael Mead was released on bail yesterday. And taking matters into their own hands, there is an online petition that unhappy citizens can sign in an attempt to get Judge Richard Boner to revoke the bond and put Mead back into a cell to await trial.

Unless you’ve been living under a rock for the past 6-8 months, you know that Michael Mead, a Fort Mill native, is accused of shooting his pregnant fiancee, Lucy Johnson, to death in her Gastonia home last July and then setting her home on fire. Mead was arrested this past



Guilty As Charged

No, not Michael Mead. But a lot of you are.
I read with interest the start of a new series in the Fort Mill Times in which reporter Toya Graham pulls a shift with Sgt. Ken Sturgill. This first part of the series was fine enough, but it was what was in the photo caption [...]