A former Cheraw police officer was charged with a sex crime, the South Carolina Law Enforcement Division said. McBee resident Justin Brian McKenzie, 40, was arrested and charged Thursday with felony sexual extortion and misconduct in office, SLED said in a news release. South Carolina Gov. Henry McMaster signed a law that makes sexual extortion a crime in August 2023. McKenzie was previously .
Orangeburg County Sheriff’s Office
A 33-year-old Bamberg man is accused of pistol-whipping a woman on Feb. 5 on Yellow Jasmine Road, outside Orangeburg.
An 11-year-old boy is safe after a stranger allegedly grabbed his arm and tried to get him to go to the stranger’s truck, which was parked at the Dollar General at 1758 Stonewall Jackson Boulevard in Orangeburg.