York Crime

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Recent Crime News

• Intensive probation helps York County teen turn thin...

  Saturday | via Rock Hill Herald 

  Poor aim, a Hacky Sack and a bad temper landed Christopher Walden in jail a little over a year ago and made the Sharon native a ward of the state at age 16.

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• Accused meat lifter facing charges

  Wednesday May 23 | via The Gaston Gazette 

  Janis Lahrmer Martin, 45, from York, S.C., and 42-year-old Frederick Alphonso Nixon, from Kings Mountain, both face one charge of misdemeanor larceny in separate cases.

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• Driver freed after crash with crane near York Compre...

  Tuesday May 22 | via Rock Hill Herald 

  Emergency crews have freed a woman trapped in her car for about an hour after it collided with a crane on Alexander Love Highway near York Comprehensive High School.

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• Two sought in S.C. Harris Teeter robbery

  Tuesday May 22 | via The Charlotte Observer 

  The York County Sheriff's Office released these surveillance photos from an armed robbery reported May 21 at the Harris Teeter on W Highway 160 in Fort Mill.

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• Cornelius Harris Teeter robbed; suspect sought

  Tuesday May 22 | via The Charlotte Observer 

  Cornelius police are trying to identify the suspect in a robbery early Tuesday at the Harris Teeter on North Cove Road.

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• Winstead says he's resigning in the wake of second d...

  Friday May 18 | via Clover Herald 

  York County Councilman Eric Winstead told The Herald on Friday that he was resigning “effective immediately” in the aftermath of his second arrest in five months for a driving offense.

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• York County Councilman blames blown tire for crash

  Thursday May 17 | via Clover Herald 

  York County Councilman Eric Winstead posted bail this morning and blamed a blown tire for the crash that put him in jail overnight in Chester County.

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• York to mark its circus history May 19

  Thursday May 17 | via Lake Wylie Pilot 

  For more than 15 years, a lot in York served as the winter base for one of the largest motorized circuses of its kind - the Barnett Brothers Circus.

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• York County Councilman Winstead blames blown tire fo...

  Thursday May 17 | via Lake Wylie Pilot 

  York County Councilman Eric Winstead posted bail Thursday morning and blamed a blown tire for the crash that put him in jail overnight in Chester County.

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• York to mark its circus history

  Tuesday May 15 | via Clover Herald 

  For more than 15 years, a lot in York served as the winter base for one of the largest motorized circuses of its kind - the Barnett Brothers Circus.

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• Man impersonates ATF agent in York grocery store

  Monday May 14 | via Clover Herald 

  An 18-year-old man is accused of impersonating police after he walked into the Bargain City store on Filbert Highway in York and claimed to be an agent with the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives.

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• York woman accused of breaking into prisoner's home

  Tuesday May 8 | via Clover Herald 

  Katie Miranda Adkins, 25, was charged with second-degree burglary, grand larceny and criminal conspiracy last week while she was already serving time for forgery, public disorderly conduct and receiving stolen goods.

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