The First Circuit Solicitor's Office dropped the charge on July 25, 2022, finding it had no evidence Pendarvis willfully violated the Hemp Farming Act.
COLUMBIA, S.C. (QUEEN CITY NEWS) — South Carolina’s top law enforcer will face a panel of South Carolina state senators Wednesday morning in a long-awaited confirmation hearing to keep his job as the director of the State Law Enforcement Division. Keel joined SLED in 1979. Former Gov. Nikki Haley appointed Keel to lead the statewide […]
COLUMBIA, SC (Queen City News) — It was nearly a year ago that a Dorchester County judge slapped a $11,307.36 sanction on Chief Mark Keel, the head of South Carolina’s top law enforcement agency for a list of discovery abuses arising from his agents’ decision to destroy a hemp farmer’s crop in September 2019. Dorchester […]