Investigators are searching for an elementary school teacher suspected of criminal sexual conduct with a minor. Hianlucas Isturiz Rodriguez, 40, engaged in sexual battery with a Red Bank Elementary School student multiple times while on duty at the school, according to arrest warrants. Detectives have obtained warrants charging Rodriguez with two counts of first degree […]
Detectives are working to determine what happened to three specific items homicide victim Keon Brantley left home with the night of April 15: a hoodie, a backpack and a pair of shoes. Investigators have determined Keon walked away his home in a Harbison area apartment complex right before 9:00 that Saturday night. He was wearing […]
As part of a joint investigation of the Columbia Police Department and the Lexington County Sheriff’s Department, Columbia investigators have arrested the female accused of making several fake 911 calls to dispatch centers in Richland and Lexington counties. Columbia Police Chief Skip Holbrook and Lexington County Sheriff Jay Koon announced 32-year-old Jheri Leil Polite is […]
The Lexington County Sheriff’s Department is investigating the death of a Columbia teen as a homicide. Columbia firefighters found the teen in a wooded area of the 200 block of Columbiana Drive, according to detectives. He was treated for a bullet wound and burns before dying in an apartment complex parking lot close to where […]