Spartanburg’s Police Chief Alonzo Thompson approached the city’s elected leaders in February and requested better pay for his officers a raise that hadn’t occurred since 2016.
Heads nodded in support behind the dais. It seemed for sure it would happen in the coming weeks to help a department that is currently ten officers short and has struggled with retention and recruitment as neighboring agencies pay better.
But then, the COVID-19 pandemic crept in and cast a dark cloud of financial uncertainty over residents, businesses and even government bodies.
When the city council inked a more conservative budget in July, police raises weren’t a part of it as the city braced for the pandemic’s impacts.
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An Upstate man has been arrested more than two weeks after he beat his girlfriend with a liquor bottle and set her on fire, according to the Spartanburg County Sheriff s Office. Larry Dean Brown, Jr., 28, of Spartanburg is charged with domestic violence of a high and aggravated nature and arson, warrants showed.Lt. Kevin Bobo said the investigation began Dec. 16 when the brother of the woman called deputies and told them about the attack, which happened on Dec. 6.The brother told investigators that Brown beat the woman with a liquor bottle, then poured gasoline on her and set her on fire, Bobo said.The woman was able to put the fire out by jumping into a bathtub and then drove herself to the hospital, according to Bobo. The attack happened in the master bedroom of the home the two shared, warrants showed.Because of the severity of her injuries, the woman wasn’t able to give emergency room personnel any specific details about the attack as they treated her and then transferred
A Spartanburg man faces multiple charges after a standoff with the Spartanburg County Sheriff s Office Friday night in which a deputy was shot at but not injured.
Brian Leigh Whitworth, 48, of 997 Bethesda Road, was charged with attempted murder, resisting arrest no assault, trespass after warning, and possession of a weapon during a violent crime.
The incident occurred shortly after a deputy responded at 7:14 p.m. Friday to 180 Wheeler Road for a trespassing call. A witness told the deputy that Whitworth had been living in the woods nearby for a while and had been seen walking up and down the road with a handgun.
A Spartanburg teenager wanted in connection to the shooting death of a man Thursday afternoon has been arrested.
Spartanburg Police Department Maj. Art Littlejohn said in a statement Jolyne Shamor Nijer Rector-Mills, 17, of 224B James Anderson Lane was arrested in Thomasville, North Carolina early Saturday.
Members of the Spartanburg County Sheriff s Office coordinated with other law enforcement agencies in North Carolina to find and arrest Rector-Mills, Littlejohn said.
Rector-Mills is charged with murder in the shooting death of Terrell Antonio Cohen, 40, of Spartanburg. Cohen was pronounced dead at the scene shortly before 3 p.m. Thursday by the Spartanburg County Coroner s Office.