Martha Rose Brown

1 week ago | thetandd.com | Martha Rose Brown

A 29-year-old Holly Hill man is accused of trying to get a minor to participate in sexual activities, according to an Orangeburg County Sheriff’s Office warrant. Jovonti Marquis Gillard Brown, of Toney Bay Road, is charged with criminal solicitation of a minor. Brown is accused of “sending mildly vulgar photos to the minor victim” between November 2023 and February 2024. The female told a family member that she met Brown at her athletic practice at Lake Marion High School.

1 week ago | thetandd.com | Martha Rose Brown

Nuclear engineering students at South Carolina State University have a new, state-of-the-art tool that gives them hands-on experience in running a nuclear power plant. The NuScale Energy Exploration Center, also known as “E2,” was opened to students just as nuclear engineering senior Zadok Tahsoh was about to take his special topics class in nuclear engineering. “Now that special topic can be reactor operations,” he said.

1 week ago | thetandd.com | Martha Rose Brown

Orangeburg Department of Public SafetyA 41-year-old Orangeburg man is accused of neglecting his mother. He was her caregiver. Samuel Tyrone Brown, of Marshall Street, is charged with neglect of a vulnerable adult. Brown called for an ambulance for his 75-year-old mother while she was asleep on April 24. EMTs called police, claiming they found Brown’s mother in her bed “curled into a ball and cold to the touch.”Her clothing and bed linens were soiled, a warrant claims.

2 weeks ago | thetandd.com | Martha Rose Brown

A 21-year-old man is accused of shooting a woman in the chest just outside of Holly Hill. Killah Jahmarius Scott, of Bonita Lane, Holly Hill is charged with possession of a weapon during the commission of a violent crime and two counts each of attempted murder and armed robbery. “My investigators were able to locate and take this individual into custody before the day was out,” Orangeburg County Sheriff Leroy Ravenell said. “This is just another senseless act that defies any logic at all,” he said.

2 weeks ago | thetandd.com | Martha Rose Brown

Orangeburg County Sheriff’s OfficeA bullet struck a Rodney Street man’s home in Orangeburg around 12:21 p.m. May 9, according to a sheriff’s office incident report. The bullet entered the home and struck the man’s television. He was not physically injured. His home security cameras allegedly showed his neighbor firing a few rounds of ammunition at a fox that was attacking the neighbor’s dog. The neighbor was remorseful when deputies told him a round entered the man’s home, the report states.