Ex-deputy gets 18 years after detainees drown in locked van
A deputy in South Carolina whose police van was swept away by floodwaters in the aftermath of Hurricane Florence, drowning two women seeking mental health treatment trapped in a cage in the back was sentenced Thursday to 18 years in prison. A Marion County jury found former Horry County deputy Stephen Flood guilty of two counts of involuntary manslaughter and two counts of reckless homicide. Judges ordered Wendy Newton, 45, and Nicolette Green, 43, to be involuntarily committed the day they died, but their families said they were not violent.
news.yahoo.comA homeless man was arrested for a 43-cent ‘theft’ of a Mountain Dew. He could face 7 years in prison.
Joseph Sobolewski might have misinterpreted a store's 2 for $3 deal. He underpaid for a Mountain Dew by 43 cents, and because he has old theft convictions, he's being held on $50,000 bond for pocket change.
washingtonpost.comRemembering the 2016 Alleghany County flood this Flood Awareness Week
ALLEGHANY COUNTY, Va. – It’s the third annual Flood Awareness Week in Virginia and our corner of the Commonwealth is no stranger to the risks from rising and rushing water. “Virginia has diverse terrain and flooding impacts all parts of the state in variable ways,” Angela Davis said. One of the most significant recent floods in our area happened in June 2016, when the western part of Alleghany County received eight to ten inches of rain in a 12-hour period. “It was a deluge of water that came into Alleghany County and the water levels jumped very fast,” Alleghany County Director of Public Safety Ryan Muterspaugh said. We met Muterspaugh at Humpback Bridge, which runs over Dunlap Creek in western Alleghany County, last month and he painted the picture of what he saw that day with his words.