Public Safety

The driver of the truck that damaged a Columbus County Sheriff’s patrol vehicle May 1 admitted that she shouldn’t have been driving, the report said. Roseanne Deloreta, 63, allegedly backed out of a driveway and into the deputy’s car at a home on Clarendon Chadbourn Highway. No one was injured in the wreck. Deputies had respondd to a disturbance call at 1833 Clarendon Chadbourn Highway around 1 a.m.,...

William Cody Perritt will spend up to 26 years in prison after entering an Alford plea in the shooting death of his girlfriend. The plea came today in South Carolina, just days before Perritt was scheduled to stand trial. In an Alford plea, the defendant does not admit guilt, but acknowledges a jury would likely convict based on the evidence. He entered the Alford plea to a charge...

 • Dustin Lloyd Long had previously run from deputies when they were attacked by a dog at the residence he shared with Shelia Todd. A man wanted for sexually abusing a child  was attempting to hide behind a rack of clothes when he was arrested Thursday, along with the woman who allegedly helped him hide. Dustin Lloyd Long, 30, Evergreen and Shelia Marie Todd, 36, both of Macedonia...