John Monk
Courts Reporter and Writer at The State
“Dying breed,” reporter, The State in SC; justice, crime, including Murdaugh murders & Jan 6 issues. Ex Char Obs Wash Corresp. Reader. Hiker. US Army.
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2 weeks ago |
thestate.com | Joseph Bustos |John Monk
South Carolina Rep. RJ May, founder of the House Freedom Caucus, was arrested on Wednesday. Homeland Security raided his home in August 2024.
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2 weeks ago |
thestate.com | John Monk |Joseph Bustos
Representative R.J. May, R-Lexington, watches as the South Carolina House of Representatives selects Murrell Smith, R-Sumter, as speaker on Tuesday, December 3, 2024. Joshua Boucher [email protected] State Rep. RJ May, R-Lexington, has been charged with 10 counts of distributing child sexual abuse material.
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2 weeks ago |
yahoo.com | John Monk |Joseph Bustos |Bristow Marchant
State Rep. Robert “RJ” May, R-Lexington, was denied bond Thursday hours after an indictment was unsealed charging him with 10 felony counts of distributing child sexual abuse material via the internet. May, 38, a married father of two young children, was arraigned Thursday morning before U.S. Magistrate Judge Shiva Hodges at the federal courthouse in Columbia. He pleaded not guilty to the charges. May was indicted Tuesday, June 10, by a federal grand jury.
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3 weeks ago |
thestate.com | John Monk
Not satisfied with cheating one company out of $1.2 million, South Carolina embezzler Robert Namath Emory went to work for another company and stole $4.8 million from it. The second company was “devastated” by the theft and some 100 people are slated to lose their jobs, a company official told a judge in a court hearing Thursday at the Columbia federal courthouse.
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4 weeks ago |
thestate.com | John Monk |Javon L. Harris
It’s a rare case of international child sexual exploitation. The young victims, girls ages 3 and 9, were 3,000 miles away in Brazil. The alleged abuser was in the Columbia, South Carolina, area. Using the internet and a co-conspirator in Brazil, the suspect — Stephen Todd Greene, 55, of West Columbia — participated in the months-long sexual abuse of the two girls, according to a 13-count indictment made public in U.S. District Court in Columbia on Thursday, May 29.
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