Colton Andrew Evatt (Walhalla, SC)-------------------------------------The Oconee County Sheriff’s Office is seeking the public’s help today in locating a missing Seneca man. 22 year old Colton Andrew Evatt was reported missing by a family member to the Sheriff’s Office late Monday afternoon. According to the family member, Colton was last seen or heard from last Friday, May 29th. According to information obtained by the Sheriff’s Office, Colton was reportedly at the In

Elisha Reid Busby (Walhalla, SC)-------------------------------------A Seneca man remains in jail today, on a combined $375,000 surety bond, after his arrest over the weekend on a charge of Attempted Murder. 25 year old Elisha Reid Busby was booked into the Oconee County Detention Center at around 7:38am on Sunday, May 31st. Besides the Attempted Murder charge, Busby has also been charged with one count of Possession of a Weapon during Commission of a Violent Crime and two

Oconee County Sheriff Mike Crenshaw (Walhalla, SC)-------------------------------------“On behalf of the men and women of the Oconee County Sheriff’s Office, we are certainly very pleased with the verdict handed down today by the jury in the Gregory Wayne Maxwell trial. Mr. Maxwell will be held accountable for the crimes he committed in the shooting of Corporal Lucas Watts, and for five other Deputy Sheriff’s that he also tried to kill on November 16th, 2023. His actions ha

Thomas Edwin Turner (Walhalla, SC)-------------------------------------A Seneca man remains in jail today after his arrest last Saturday evening in relation to two separate property crimes which occurred at two separate addresses on Sweet Gum Drive in southern Oconee County. 38 year old Thomas Edwin Turner was booked into the Oconee County Detention Center at around 9:42pm on Saturday, May 9th. During an initial appearance before a Judge, Turner was denied bond on all

James Henry Nix (Walhalla, SC)-------------------------------------An Oconee County man remains in jail today after his arrest on an outstanding arrest warrant charging him with drug trafficking for possessing over one-half pound of Methamphetamine. 36 year old James Henry Nix was booked into the Oconee County Detention Center at around 2:17pm on Tuesday, May 5th. Nix was arrested during a Warrant Service in Walhalla yesterday conducted by Investigators from the Criminal

Braxton Martin Brown (Walhalla, SC)-------------------------------------A Westminster man was arrested by the Oconee County Sheriff’s Office late last week on two counts of Criminal Sexual Conduct with a Minor – 3rd Degree in an investigation involving two separate victims. 20 year old Braxton Martin Brown was booked into the Oconee County Detention Center at around 1:53pm last Friday, May 1st by a Deputy assigned to the Warrants Unit. Brown was given a combined $30,000 su

Keylee Ray Sammons (Walhalla, SC)-------------------------------------A Central, SC teenager remains in jail today, on a $2,000 surety bond, after her arrest yesterday on a charge of Disturbing Schools. 18 year old Keylee Ray Sammons was booked into the Oconee County Detention Center at around 7:20pm Tuesday. Sammons will be required to wear an electronic monitoring device, as a condition of bond, should she be released from jail. A School Resource Officer assigned to We

(From L - R: Investigator Sergeant Rashad Crooks, 5th Grade Student Jasper Burdick and School Resource Officer, Corporal Justice Lee (Walhalla, SC)-------------------------------------An Oconee County Sheriff’s Office School Resource Officer was recently recognized at a School District of Oconee County board meeting for an initiative that recognizes students at the school he is assigned to. Corporal Justice Lee is the School Resource Officer at Northside Elementary School i

Jazmynn Rosa Morales Sakkinen and Elina Elizabeth Morales Sakkinen (Walhalla, SC)-------------------------------------The Missing Person’s Unit of the Oconee County Sheriff’s Office is happy to report that a missing teenager and her infant child have been located safe in the state of Indiana. 15 year old Jazmynn Rosa Morales Sakkinen and her five-month old child, Elina Elizabeth Morales Sakkinen, were last seen 39 days ago, on Friday evening, March 20th, at their residence