The First Circuit Solicitor's Office dropped the charge on July 25, 2022, finding it had no evidence Pendarvis willfully violated the Hemp Farming Act.
COLUMBIA, SC (Queen City News) — It was nearly a year ago that a Dorchester County judge slapped a $11,307.36 sanction on Chief Mark Keel, the head of South Carolina’s top law enforcement agency for a list of discovery abuses arising from his agents’ decision to destroy a hemp farmer’s crop in September 2019. Dorchester […]