Vehicles hit each other at around 9 pm tonight. It happened also Platt Springs road off of orangeburg word road. Few details released but we do have item on the phone. He is with the sheriffs department. We are very early in what will be a late fee process with this incident. What i can share with you is that to Lexington County Sheriffs Department vehicles were involved in a collision. That included two deputies and one reserve deputy. They were responding to a call of a burglary and process. That is when the collision occurred. As per policy, the South Carolina Highway Patrol is the agency that looks into the collision. They are beginning the early stages of their investigation. All three of our deputies were transported with injuries and we are not certain what kind of injuries at this point. Our first question tonight are the injuries serious . A looks like they will be okay but i dont want to speculate. We are still early in this process but we are certainly hoping for the past an
In Williams House and there is no proof williams owns the gun or even knew it was there. The judge disagreed but still gave williams bond for each charge. It tolls 20,250. His mom says shes taking her son home. Hes innocent. Very innocent. Reporter and you can count on us to keep watching the story. Yesterday as the first to tell you williams previous weapons charge criminal case was thrown out and today i got the video that showed why. For 5 00 we are asking at the same thing in that case could happen this time around. Going through it now and talking to legal analyst in the latest coming up in the next hour. Live in sanford, Seminole County, tim barber, channel 9 Eyewitness News. Breaking news out of tallahassee where a proposal that would change floridas Death Penalty system was just approved by the full senate and is heading to governor. Rick scott desk. We told you january the wesvill Current System and the justices said a gave judges too much power in opposing death penalties. Th
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The Department Said there has been an increase in activity that involves Human Trafficking cases like this one. A big part of tackling this had on his prevention through Law Enforcement and education. We looked into Human Trafficking in our state and prevention methods. He kidnapped her, he was threatening her and holding her against her will and forcing her to have sex with various people in motel throughout richmond county. Reporter the case of this kind of thing is far too common. The sheriff said enforcement and education are preventative measures we need to take. We need to get the word out to our communities and young girls that drugs and violence involved and illegal sex there all kinds of dangers. Reporter for the first time we have some idea of how many Human Trafficking victims are certain our states. 155 last year. Force report. Smith there are some hotspots. But broad river road is where we are seeing some of the hotels that we are working with. Reporter katie jackson. One