A Montford Road woman was issued a citation after one dead horse and one malnourished horse were found on her property. Acting on a tip, a deputy responded to the home May 11 and saw one horse was deceased and the other “looked like skin and bo ... 

A woman who drives a bus for the Salvation Army in Georgetown called police Saturday morning. She said when she got on the bus she saw someone had been on the bus and had a bowel movement in the aisle. The woman said there was no forced entry onto th ... 

Georgetown County deputies, the Horry County Bomb Squad and the Air Force all got involved after an explosive device was found in the Plantersville area. A man said he found the bomb on his property on Fyfee Court May 3. The man said he contacted th ... 

An out-of-control 7-year-old  is accused of  attacking and biting a teacher at Pleasant Hill Elementary School April 30. A deputy talked with the principal about the student. The principal said the child had thrown things around the room an ... 

A 10-year-old Rose Hill community child is accused of forcing his 3-year-old male cousin to perform a sex act on him April 28. The alleged incident occurred at the home of the 3-year-old’s uncle, according to the report. When the toddler’ ... 

A 49-year-old man from Harmony Hills Drive said a 25-year-old woman he knows stole $40 from him April 17.  And he said her mother reportedly helped her with the crime. The man said he received a call from the woman who asked if he wanted her to ... 

A Georgetown woman was arrested last week by the South Carolina Department of Revenue. Ira L. Grier, 26, was charged with one count of forgery and one count of obtaining a signature or property by false pretenses, according to SCDOR spokeswoman Saman ... 

Deputies were sent to the 2800 block of Dunbar Road Monday afternoon where a 29-year-old woman said she was attacked by her 25-year-old male cousin. She said he beat her on the head and face with his closed fist until she temporarily lost consciousne ... 

A Florence man was arrested on drug and weapon charges after a traffic stop April 11. Travis Raymark Grate, 30, of 441 West Cheves Street is charged with Possession of Marijuana Second Offense, Possession of Cocaine Base Second Offense, Unlawful Poss ... 

There was a scare in Pawleys Island April 8 when a 10-year-old girl went missing. Deputies met with the father of the child on Grate Ave. at about 6:25 p.m. and he said he had not seen his daughter for about two hours. He said he saw her leave her ho ... 

Georgetown police were sent to Carolina Petro Gas on Exchange Street March 31 because of a disorderly 40-year-old man from Raleigh, N.C. The man was sitting by a trash can outside the store when police arrived. He was holding an open can of beer. As ... 

Deputies were sent to Waverly Road in Pawleys Island at about 12:20 a.m. April 2 because of a physical altercation between a 29-year-old woman and her 33-year-old boyfriend. The officers found the woman outside crying. She said her boyfriend attacked ... 

A 65-year-old man was arrested March 28 for allegedly using his walking cane to assault a 77-year-old man. The victim said a man he has never seen before started punching and hitting him with a walking cane at the corner of Waverly Road and Petigru D ... 

A former tenant of a house in the 1000 block of South Waccamaw Drive in Garden City is accused of stealing a surveillance camera from the house before she vacated the property. A property manager who said as part of her duties, she installs security ... 

A Georgetown woman said she received a baby goat for Christmas but it had been staying at the home of a neighbor while she constructed a pen for the pet. In early February she was informed the goat had an allergic reaction to something and had died. ... 

There were some tense moments at a home on Jackson Village Road in Plantersville Monday afternoon. Deputies received a call a man was going to kill himself. When they arrived, the man was in the backyard holding a gun to his head. He had already fir ... 

A tip from a Hagley resident resulted in the arrest of an Horry County man on burglary charges. Georgetown County Sheriff’s Office spokeswoman Carrie Cuthbertson says Larry Dean Toombs, 51, of Nichols was arrested at about 1 a.m. Sunday. Deputi ... 

A Pawleys Island couple called 911 March 10 when they realized their teenage daughter had left home without permission. The girl’s father went out looking for her but was unsuccessful. Later that night the teen called her parents and said she l ... 

There were some scary moments for a 15-year-old girl who was approached by a convicted sex offender as she was walking home from Georgetown High School March 4. The teen, according to the incident report, called her father and said while she was at t ... 

Georgetown County investigators say it was the smell that led them to arrest a man on drug charges in the Sampit community this week. Anthony Brent Armstead, 24, of 2107 Lincoln Street, Georgetown, was arrested at about 3:30 a.m. Monday at Browns Sug ... 

A woman from the 600 block of Bill Street in Murrells Inlet called 911 at about 5 p.m. Feb. 28 when she found a 5-year-old child she did not know in her front yard. The child could not tell the woman where he lived and appeared to be autistic. Before ... 

A man who was shopping in the Murrells Inlet Food Lion reported a stolen laptop. He said he had the laptop in a shopping cart. When he was in the checkout line, he received a telephone call, so he walked outside to talk with the caller. When he ret ... 

A clerk at the Quality Inn of Georgetown called police at about 8:30 p.m. Feb. 9 after a couple dropped a woman off at the hotel and drove away. The 56-year-old woman from Havelock, N.C. was intoxicated and was slumped over on a couch when officers a ... 

A Beneventum community woman said a 24-year-old man was having inappropriate conversations with her 15-year-old daughter and he allegedly sent a nude photo of himself to the teen. The woman said the teen had her cell phone taken away for punishment. ... 

A 15-year-old Carvers Bay High student was arrested after he reportedly vandalized a bathroom in the school . The charge was filed Feb. 8 but the incident occurred the previous day. A teacher reported hearing a loud commotion coming from the bathroom ...