Public Safety

Traffic enforcement kept deputies busy over the weekend, resulting in several unrelated arrests for narcotics and a stolen catalytic converter. The sheriff’s office reported that the HEAT Team was operating a checking station at Joe Brown Highway South and Rough and Ready Friday when a suspect allegedly tried to hide a needle. When the car stopped at the checkpoint, the report said, a deputy who approached the car...

Jennifer Scurdato has pleaded guilty in Columbus Superior Court for the second degree murder of Norm Foggan in April 2022. Scurdato, 40, was sentenced Friday to 94 to 125 months in prison. Deputies were called to the Snake Island Road home she shared with Foggan on April 8, 2022 around 7:15 a.m. Foggan was found dead in the home. He had been shot at least once, according to...

Updated 1:50 p.m. July 25 A Bolton man is being held under $1.5 million secured bond on dozens of charges of possessing and sharing child pornography. Some of the videos involved infants. Aaron Hunter Thomas Coleman, 25, was processed into the Columbus County Detention Center at 3 a.m. today (Wednesday), according to jail records. A grand jury indictment showed he faces 23 charges of second degree sex offense...