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South Carolina prison inmates ordered murders and kidnappings using contraband phones, feds say
December 11, 2020 / 11:41 AM
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Federal authorities have indicted 40 people in what they say is South Carolina s largest racketeering conspiracy case in history, stemming from four state inmates orchestrating hits and trafficking drugs by using contraband cellphones while behind bars. The U.S. Attorney in South Carolina called it a sprawling criminal enterprise.
The 147 counts in the indictment range from drug and firearm charges to those related to a murder, a kidnapping and two drive-by shootings, prosecutors said Thursday at a news conference outside of Broad River Correctional Institution in Columbia. The crimes occurred between 2017 and this year. ....

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