Evidence of stolen drug seizure cash found in locked desk drawer after sheriff’s death in South Carolina

to purchase illegal narcotics in pre-arranged drug buys used to investigate and bring charges against suspected drug dealers in Dillon County. Bethea told SLED that Pernell did not keep records of the buys and didn’t require his narcotics unit to fill out paperwork when he’d hand them money.

“Really wasn’t much of a process,” Bethea told SLED in his continue reading …