Sandy Hodson

Nov 25, 2024 | postandcourier.com | Sandy Hodson

WASHINGTON, D.C. — A retired North Charleston police officer who pleaded guilty to two misdemeanor charges for his role in the Jan. 6, 2021, attack on the U.S. Capitol avoided any term of incarceration. Thomas E. Blackwood Sr., 70, was sentenced to four years of probation on Nov. 20 in federal court in Washington, D.C. He was also ordered to pay $500 in restitution. Blackwood and a friend attended the Jan.

Nov 7, 2024 | postandcourier.com | Sandy Hodson

WALTERBORO — Terry Lewis told law enforcement officers after she was taken off a ventilator that over the course of two days in January 2019 her husband, Craig Lewis, beat her bloody, raped her and set her on fire. After months of suffering, Terry Lewis, 63, died in November of that year from complications caused by her burn injuries. On Nov. 7, a Colleton County jury, which never learned of Terry Lewis’ statements, acquitted Craig Lewis of murder, arson and resisting arrest.

Aug 20, 2024 | postandcourier.com | Sandy Hodson

NORTH CHARLESTON — A suspect in the death of a city public works employee who was shot while he was in a city truck collecting recyclables last month has been taken into custody. U.S. Marshals took 24-year-old Tyrell Lamont Smith into custody in New York on Aug. 1. Smith is in the process of being extradited to South Carolina where he faces weapon and murder charges, according to a news released form the North Charleston Police Department.

Aug 20, 2024 | postandcourier.com | Sandy Hodson

In an order released Aug. 20 the state Supreme Court suspended attorney John Kuhn's law license until further notice. Kuhn, 61, had practiced law in Charleston following his graduation from the John Marshall Law School in Atlanta in 1993 and passing the state bar the following year. Kuhn also previously served as a state senator and is a former leader of the Charleston County Republican Party. On Aug. 20 the South Carolina Bar Association listed Kuhn as "not in good standing" and suspended.

Aug 12, 2024 | postandcourier.com | Sandy Hodson

The woman accused of lying to investigators looking into a teen's 2009 disappearance in Myrtle Beach was scheduled to plead guilty on Aug. 12, but the hearing was postponed after new sentencing information surfaced. Angel Vause appeared briefly in U.S. District Court in Charleston. U.S. District Judge Richard M.