Bruce Perry Quits Aiken Public Defender Post
Bruce Perry ends his role as assistant public defender for Aiken County in his final week and moves to Bamberg. In a General Sessions trial, defendant Chris Ready, 21, Graniteville, was acquitted of housebreaking after Ready testified he and friend Garth Treadway were fishing and wandered to the house. Key witnesses included Charles Hammond and Deputy Michael Hoehn, who testified about items found and the attic entry. The jury accepted Perry’s argument that no burglary occurred since an open door did not prove breaking, citing only a found chain as the sole recovered item.
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Bruce Perry
Perry
Aiken County
Bamberg
Chris Ready
Graniteville
David Schwacke
Ready
Storm Branch
Charles Hammond
Treadway
Hammond
Attic Fire Damages Home in Aiken
An early morning attic fire in a one story wood frame home at 410 Henry St. caused heat and fire damage to three rooms and smoke damage throughout. No injuries were reported as residents escaped. firefighters with two pumpers and 25 men contained the blaze in about 15 minutes. The residence owned by Russ Beckmeyer and rented by Jack Denny is under routine investigation to determine the cause.
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Aiken
Charles W. Cupp
Aiken Department of Public Safety
Henry St
Cupp
Russ Beckmeyer
Jack Denny
Salary Supplement Raises Questions
State Sen. John Drummond warns that padding a state agency director’s salary with funds from a private foundation could set a dangerous precedent. An older attorney general opinion in the 1970s allowed similar pay supplements for college officials. The Ethics Commission declined to rule, citing the 1978 McLeod opinion, while the attorney general’s office says the precedent may apply to other state agencies.
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Columbia
John Drummond
State Ethics Commission
Daniel McLeod
State Attorney General’s Office
Pus
Ninth Circuit Judge Fields Manages Guilty Pleas in Aiken Court
Judge Rich ard E. Fields presided over a slate of guilty pleas in Aiken County General Sessions Court. Sentences ranged from concurrent five year terms for breaking into a motor vehicle to multi year penalties for burglary and larceny, plus probation and fines. A no contest plea by Roosevelt Carter yielded a 10 year term suspended with probation.
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Ninth Circuit Court
Richard E. Fields
Aiken County
Timothy James Quiller
North Augusta
Jonathan C. Tennant
North A
Gerald Alexander Ridenhour
Aiken
Robert Herman Bargstedt
Langley
Timothy Beard
Willie Lee Gilmore
Columbia
Robert Delane McCarty
David William Morgan
Augusta
Garth James Treadway
Surfside Beach
Michelle F. Fieweger
John Dugar
Sharon Pixley Williams
Kenneth Warren Winn
Food-Filled Freighter Sails For Lebanon
A Greek freighter Constellation Faros loaded with dried milk flour and other food from a UN program sailed to Lebanon despite Rep. Tommy Hartnett R S C pressuring the State Department to delay. Hartnett urged delaying until accountability for Lebanese recipients and hijackers is clarified.
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Charleston
United Nations
Lebanon
Tommy Hartnett
R-S.c
State Department
United States
House
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