LEXINGTON, S.C. – Investigator Carleisha Gilliam knew she wanted to work in law enforcement at an early age. Gilliam told people, even at 3 or 4 years old, she wanted to be a law enforcement officer, and she stuck to that plan. Gilliam graduated from Lander University and went to graduate school at Columbia College. […]
LEXINGTON, S.C. – Sergeant Willie Harris grew up watching police officers on television and knew he wanted to be a deputy one day. Harris, a native of Florence, South Carolina, is fulfilling that dream in the Patrol Division at the Lexington County Sheriff’s Department. When considering different agencies at the start of his career, he […]
LEXINGTON, S.C. – Detention Sergeant James Davenport grew up just a few-hundred feet from the Lexington County Sheriff’s Department. He remembers watching the deputy sheriff cars passing his house on the way to the Sheriff’s Department’s headquarters. Now, Davenport is 12 years into his career at the Lexington County Detention Center. When his son was […]
GASTON, S.C. – At Sandhills Middle School, it’s a coveted morning routine for students to assist School Resource Officer Stephen Durco with raising the school’s flags. Durco, an Air Force veteran, graduated from the South Carolina Criminal Justice Academy in October 2020 and took over the school’s “Flag Program” soon after starting as a deputy […]
