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  • Great Falls man charged in attack

    CHESTER – According to a Chester County Sheriff’s office report, a man was arrested on Jan. 9, 2022, after allegedly attacking the mother of his child with a hammer and the holding her and the child hostage in a home in the Douglas Road area of Great Falls.

    Mincey

    The incident unfolded beginning about 1 p.m. on Jan. 9, when the Chester County Sheriff’s Office received a call from the woman.

    Deputies were dispatched to the home and helped the woman escape the home with the child.

    The woman explained that the father of her child, later identified as Burton Mincey, Jr., attacked her with a hammer on Jan. 7, threatened to kill her and then held her and the child hostage for the next two days.

    After securing the victims, deputies executed a search warrant on the residence.

    During the execution of the search warrant, deputies arrested Mincey. He was transported to the Chester County Detention Center and charged with Domestic Violence High and Aggravated and kidnapping.

     This incident is under investigation by the Chester County Sheriff’s Office.

  • Moonshine bust nets Blythewood man

    WINNSBORO – While conducting a lawful search warrant at about 6 p.m., May 8, at a residence on West College Street in Winnsboro, officers from the Fairfield County Sheriff’s Narcotics Unit, the Winnsboro Department of Public Safety and the Chester County Sheriff’s Narcotics Unit, encountered numerous subjects in the front yard of the residence and discovered 25 mason jars of liquid believed to be moonshine inside the house, the incident report states. It was also reported that officers found substances believed to be cocaine and marijuana in a vehicle on the property registered to Derrick Jones, 41, of Blythewood.

    Jones

    Upon the officers’ arrival, one of the subjects, Donald Glenn, Jr. who, it turned out, is on federal probation/supervision for a previous arrest, immediately bolted from the location, but was captured in the next block, detained, handcuffed and taken back to the residence.

    All the other subjects were also handcuffed and secured by perimeter units in the front yard. A search team along with a K-9 officer reportedly entered the residence where the K-9 made several narcotic alerts.

    Outside the residence, Jones, who had been seated at a picnic table, still handcuffed and under legal confinement, also bolted from the property, the report states. While officers were unable to catch or locate Jones, he contacted officers about 11:30 that evening and made arrangements to turn himself in.

    Jones was arrested and charged with trafficking cocaine over 10 grams and common law escape and transported to the Fairfield County Detention Center. Jones was released on $25,000 bond for drug trafficking and $5,000 bond for escape. According to the report, Glenn was turned over to federal authorities.