Man Arrested Over Smokey and the Bandit Trans Am Restorations
Cleve DuBois 30 is jailed in Charleston County on breach of trust charges for failing to restore Thomas Tyner's 1977 Pontiac Trans Am used in the film Smokey and the Bandit. Tyner bought the car from a Maryland museum. restoration began in 2002 and stalled as shops closed and the car disappeared. Det. Robert Joyner suspects the car was stripped for parts. Tyner mourns the loss of his long awaited dream.
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Charleston
Burt Reynolds
Thomas Tyner
Cleve DuBois
Tyner
DuBois
Charleston County Detention Center
Georgia
Maryland
Robert Joyner
North Charleston
National Guard unit heads to Iraq and other Midlands notes
About 275 members of South Carolina’s 1st Battalion 151st Aviation Regiment left Fort Bragg for Iraq to support a Stryker brigade mission in Mosul after six weeks of training. Separately Gina Beatty received a 25 year sentence after pleading guilty to felony DUI causing an 18 year old’s death. In York County, the Meza family murders prompted Nicaragua media attention with photos of relatives as investigators pursue DNA evidence.
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Columbia
South Carolina National Guard
Iraq
151St Aviation Regiment
Fort Bragg
N.C
178Th Field Artillery
Georgetown
Fort Dix
N.J
National Guard and Reserve
South Carolina
Edward McKee
Mosul
McKee
Gina Lee Beatty
Beatty
William L. Evans
Lexington
Dayton Riddle
Evans
Cam Littlejohn
Rock Hill
Denis
Marbely
Denia
Denise
Jairo
York County
Doug McKown
Residents protest mountain development near Caesars Head
Greenville residents and environmentalists urge state action to halt five proposed homes on 34.6 acres bought by Tom Marchant, Mark Taylor, and Ansel King from Media General for 600000. Trails would be relocated. locals call the Rim of the Gap Trail sacred and fear loss of access.
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Mountain Bridge
Greenville
Tom Marchant
Columbia
Mark Taylor
Ansel King
Wspa-Tv
Media General
Caesars Head State Park
Taylor
Phyllis Hilton
Cliff Ridge
Barney
Linda Hawkins
Rim of the Gap
Jones Gap
John H. Lumpkin Jr
Greenville County
Joe Dill
Dill
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