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[1] Investigators found that the riot was caused by gang activity, shortage of staff, overcrowding, and poor living conditions. In 2021, the South Carolina General Assembly approved a $92 million investment into improving South Carolina's prisons, largely as a result of the Lee Correctional Prison Riot. It will be the largest single-year ...
Braylee Estep, 22, of Columbia, was arrested Jan. 3 by Conway Police for third-degree assault and battery by a mob after assaulting a person at her family’s Conway bar, Stalvey’s Watering Hole.
Katie Richelle Turvey, 26, of Conway, was arrested Jan. 4 by Conway Police and charged with assault and battery by a mob, petit larceny and malicious injury to personal property.
A former Surfside Beach Police sergeant has been arrested by the South Carolina Law Enforcement Division on charges of second-degree assault and battery and misconduct in office.
Timothy A. Connolly III (May 27, 1958 - July 21, 2020), aka "Timmy Connolly" and "TC", was an American former South Boston bar owner and mortgage broker, who wore a wire inside the infamous Winter Hill Gang and helped the federal government indict their two leaders, James "Whitey" Bulger and Stephen Flemmi ("The Rifleman").
Battery is a criminal offense involving unlawful physical contact, distinct from assault, which is the act of creating reasonable fear or apprehension of such contact. Battery is a specific common law offense, although the term is used more generally to refer to any unlawful offensive physical contact with another person.
The legal process has been a “slow-moving beast,” Brogdon said, but five have been charged with assault by mob. “I think it’s been frustrating at times for LaTasha,” Brogdon said.
Assault and battery is the combination of two violent crimes: assault (harm or the threat of harm) and battery (physical violence). This legal distinction exists only in jurisdictions that distinguish assault as threatened violence rather than actual violence.