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RELEASE – U.S. Attorney Attends Pilot Test of Micro-Jamming Technology in South Carolina Prison
Columbia, South Carolina — United States Attorney Sherri A. Lydon announced today that the federal Bureau of Prisons conducted a pilot test of micro-jamming technology this week at the Broad River Correctional Institution in Columbia, South Carolina. The test was the first collaboration of its kind in a state corrections facility. It was conducted to determine […]
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PRESS NOTICE – Local, State, and Federal Law Enforcement Joining State Prosecutors and U.S. Attorneys From South Carolina and the Southern District of Georgia at Press Conference
Columbia, South Carolina — United States Attorney Sherri A. Lydon announced today that a press conference will be held tomorrow, Tuesday, March 12, 2019, at the Aiken Public Safety Department, J. Carroll Busbee Headquarters, 834 Beaufort Street NE, Aiken, SC 29801. Represented at the press conference will be members of the Aiken Department of Public Safety; […]
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US Attorney: Career Law Enforcement Coordinator Receives South Carolina’s Highest Civilian Honor
Career Law Enforcement Coordinator for the U.S. Attorney’s Office Awarded South Carolina’s Highest Civilian Honor by Governor McMaster Columbia, South Carolina —- United States Attorney Sherri A. Lydon is proud to announce that Rebecca Ann “Becky” Plyler was awarded the Order of the Palmetto by Governor Henry McMaster.The Order of the Palmetto is considered the highest […]
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US Attorney: Federal Grand Jury Indictments
United States Attorney Sherri A. Lydon announced today that a Federal Grand Jury in Florence, South Carolina, returned Indictments against the following: Horry and Dillon County Men Indicted for Illegal Reentry into the United States After Deportation. Luis Fernando Roldan-Quiroz of Horry County, South Carolina, and Wilfredo Alcantara-Garcia of Dillon County, South Carolina, were each charged […]
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RELEASE: Two Men Sentenced to Federal Prison for Their Roles in Drug Conspiracy Orchestrated Through the Use of Contraband Phones in Prison
Charleston, South Carolina—- United States Attorney Sherri A. Lydon announced today that Ignacio Sandoval-Acosta, 47, a Mexican citizen currently serving a sentence for drug trafficking in the South Carolina Department of Corrections, and Scott Terrill Hipp, 27, of Goose Creek, South Carolina, were sentenced to federal prison for conspiring to possess with intent to distribute […]