Alan Hovorka

2 days ago | postandcourier.com | Alan Hovorka

NORTH CHARLESTON — A SWAT team with Georgia State Police arrested a man who claimed he was God while allegedly threatening to kill a city police officer and family and threatening City Hall employees, according to a news release. Police arrested Isiah Demetron Washington, 48, at his home in Covington, Georgia, in the early morning of June 25 in connection with a series of threats June 20. Georgia State Police breached Washington's home with "an explosive device." He came out and surrendered.

4 days ago | postandcourier.com | Alan Hovorka

CHARLESTON — A man who fatally shot another outside a former West Ashley bar and left behind his date, who allegedly lied to police, has pleaded guilty to a reduced charge in the killing. Joseph Arthur Collins, a 37-year-old Charleston resident, pleaded guilty June 23 to voluntary manslaughter in the death of Randy Lambert, 45, outside the former Back 9 Pub on 2547 Ashley River Road. Collins fatally shot Lambert after the man rubbed his bald head around midnight Aug. 6, 2021.

6 days ago | aikenstandard.com | Jason Ryan |Alan Hovorka

MONCKS CORNER — Nearly 10 years ago, a State Law Enforcement Division agent sat at Barbara Moore’s breakfast table, sipping grape Kool-Aid. That might have been the moment when she told him that her daughter intended to hang herself in a garage days before her suspicious death. Or maybe it was weeks later, while SLED Special Agent David H.

1 week ago | postandcourier.com | Alan Hovorka

CHARLESTON — A man who told police he fatally shot someone during an argument after he thought the victim was reaching for a gun has pleaded guilty. Derek Rashon Johnson, 33, pleaded guilty to a lesser charge of voluntary manslaughter in the January 2024 fatal shooting of Michael Simmons, 42. Ninth Circuit Judge Deadra Jefferson sentenced Johnson to 10 years in prison. The Charleston County Sheriff's Office initially arrested and charged Johnson with murder.

1 week ago | postandcourier.com | Alan Hovorka

MONCKS CORNER — A Lowcountry jeweler's defense team wants a judge to dismiss his murder charge hours before his trial can begin, contending evidence was suppressed for a decade by prosecutors. Michael Colucci, now 55, is again on trial in the May 20, 2015, death of his wife, Sara Lynn Colucci. The S.C. Attorney General's Office will try once more to convince a jury that the jeweler strangled her. His 2018 trial ended in a mistrial after the jury deadlocked.