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Crime / Public Safety
R. Darnell Rivera works the public-safety desk in Spartanburg and brings 15 years on the beat. Their reporting centers on I-85 and South Carolina Highway Patrol, with daily blotter and major-incident coverage as the core. Centers each story on the question Spartanburg readers actually have.
21 published stories
An unplanned venting incident involving a railroad tank car brought emergency crews to the Beaumont area of Spartanburg on Thursday afternoon, briefly closing several roads near the intersection\u2026
A 66-year-old driver was killed Tuesday evening when his SUV crossed multiple lanes on White Horse Road in Berea, overturned several times, and slammed into a pickup truck\u2026
A 16-year-old boy faces six felony counts including armed robbery and vehicular hijacking after a January–April crime spree across Chicago, as South Carolina records its lowest robbery and\u2026
A 54-year-old Spartanburg County man is facing more than a dozen criminal charges, including kidnapping, multiple counts of criminal sexual conduct with a minor, and exposing another person\u2026
Why Carjackings Often Happen in ‘In-Between’ Moments Most vehicle crimes don’t happen on the highway. They happen in the few seconds when you’re walking out of a store,\u2026
A former public official in Mississippi has been indicted on child sex crime charges, with a grand jury returning a seven-count indictment against a deputy coroner whose position\u2026
A 54-year-old man is being held without bond at the Spartanburg County Detention Facility following an April 23 arrest in which deputies recovered a missing juvenile and determined\u2026
Luke Anthony Quintana, 21, a former Redlands Unified water polo coach, was arrested April 29 on multiple sexual offense charges involving a 15-year-old student he met at Citrus\u2026
A Spartanburg woman was denied bond Monday and remains in custody at the Spartanburg County Detention Center after investigators charged her with murder in the death of her\u2026
A gas leak closed the 3800 block of East Main Street in Spartanburg on Monday afternoon after a construction worker accidentally punctured a fuel line while working in\u2026
The Spartanburg County Sheriff's Office is mourning the death of retired deputy Carol Wayne Emory, 77, of Spartanburg County, who passed away peacefully at his home on April\u2026
A 63-year-old man is facing a second-degree felony charge of sexual assault of a child after his arrest in New Caney, Texas, in court records and an official\u2026