Indictments: SC sheriff ordered deputy to shock inmate

By JEFFREY COLLINS
Associated Press

COLUMBIA, S.C. (AP) — A sheriff in South Carolina has been indicted and suspended from office after prosecutors say he ordering a deputy to shock an inmate three times. Marlboro County Sheriff Charles Lemon said in a statement immediately after the May 2020 incident that the inmate attacked him while trying to escape from a cell. Lemon was indicted Tuesday on charges of assault and battery of a high and aggravated nature and misconduct in office. The deputy who shocked the inmate with a Taser faces the same charges. If convicted of the felony assault charge, they could each spend up to 20 years in prison. The original charges against the inmate for assaulting a police officer still stand.