Public Safety Director Sam White said investigators with the City-County Drug Taskforce received information a drug dealer from Spartanburg was coming to Union to sell drugs. White said a sting was set up using a confidential informant who the dealer was supposed to deliver the drugs to. He said the alleged dealer showed up for the meeting at the agreed on location in a parking lot at 719 North Duncan Bypass Thursday afternoon. Officers moved in and made the arrests when he and three other persons showed up.
The following persons were charged in the incident:
• Terrell Lamont Canty, 326 Sims Chapel Road, Spartanburg, charged with possession with intent to distribute crack cocaine and possession with intent to distribute crack cocaine within a half-mile of a school.
• Damion Donte Fowler, 22, 135 Princeton St., Spartanburg, charged with conspiracy to distribute crack cocaine and possession of marijuana.
• Katory Lavoris Farrow, 23, 118 White Oak Road, Spartanburg, charged with conspiracy to distribute crack cocaine.
• Stephan Antreyvous Pearson, 23, 350 Sims Chapel Road, Spartanburg, charged with conspiracy to distribute crack cocaine.
White said approximately two grams of crack cocaine were seized by investigators. He said when investigators went to arrest Canty, he tried to eat the crack cocaine, but a sheriff’s deputy stopped him. Canty was taken to Wallace Thomson Hospital where he was examined before being taken to the Union County Jail.
Canty, Fowler, Farrow and Pearson were all still in jail as of Friday afternoon.
In a separate incident, law enforcement sent a message to local drug dealers that if they try to do business they too will end up a guest of the county.
Timothy Daniel McFalls, 19, 249 Fairview Church Circle, Union, was charged Thursday with distribution of a controlled substance. McFalls was arrested after selling Hydrocodone to a confidential informant in the 900 block of East Main Street.
McFalls was taken to jail where he remained as of Friday afternoon.
Also charged in the incident was a 16-year-old male. The teen was taken into custody but later released to one of his parents.
Assault and battery
Mixing alcohol and an argument that degenerates into physical violence is another good way to end up in jail as a Union man found out Thursday morning.
Donovan Lee Robinson, 22, 346 Pineneedle Road, Union, is charged by the Union County Sheriff’s Office with assault and battery. Robinson was arrested following an incident in which he allegedly hit his girlfriend repeatedly in the face and head in the parking lot of Burger King.
Deputies were dispatched to Room 128 of the Palmetto Inn in response to a report of an assault. The victim told deputies she and her boyfriend (Robinson) began arguing while driving from a friend’s house. After they parked at Burger King, she said Robinson began to hit her in the face and head and then forced her to drive them to a Palmetto Inn and get a room.
The argument continued in Room 128 and she said Robinson again hit her several times in the face and head. Deputies observed marks on the victim’s bottom lip, neck, nose, face and right arm. She also told them she had a couple of bumps on her head from where Robinson had kicked her.
The victim told deputies Robinson’s mother was called to the room to take him home. She said he took her car keys with him when he left.
Deputies went to Robinson’s home where they placed him under arrest. He told deputies his girlfriend had hit him in the mouth. Deputies observed a mark on Robinson’s bottom lip but this didn’t stop them from taking him to jail where he remained until being released on bond Friday morning.
Disorderly conduct
Four teens were arrested for disorderly conduct in two separate incidents at Union County High School on Wednesday morning.
The first incident occurred shortly before noon when Raven Shanice Simuel, 17, 125 North Boyce St., Union, and a 15-year-old girl got into a fistfight. Simuel was arrested and taken to the jail while the other girl was arrested and taken to the public safety department where she was later released to one of her parents.
Just minutes after, another fight broke out between a 16-year-old and a 14-year-old. The two girls were arrested and transported to the public safety department where they were later released to their parents.
Disorderly conduct, however, is not a crime committed exclusively by juveniles.
Timothy Wayne Howell, 50, 612 West Main St., Union, is charged by the public safety department with disorderly conduct after an officer responding to a disturbance found him loud, boisterous and cursing from his porch. The officer reported Howell was drawing a crowd and he attempted to talk with Howell but this only made matters worse. He placed Howell under arrest and took him to jail.
Breach of peace
Two men who got into a fight ended up charged by the sheriff’s office with breach of peace.
Deputies were dispatched to a West Main Street residence where Jeffrey DeWayne Allison, 423 Church St., Buffalo, and Daniel Jason Chambers, 1208 Main St. Buffalo, had reportedly gotten into an argument that turned physical. They found the two men with minor injuries and transported them to jail.
Arrests
Mack Columbus Reynolds, 40, 629 Rice Avenue Ext., Apt. 6A, Union, charged by the sheriff’s office with public intoxication.
Francine Halise Rice, 36, 135 William E. Free, Union, charged by the sheriff’s office with fraudulent check.
Deloris Foster, 49, 122 Perrin Avenue, Union, charged by the sheriff’s office with fraudulent check.
Charles Henry Bailey Jr., 43, 2319 Browns Creek Church Road, Union, charged by the sheriff’s office with fraudulent check.
Christopher Scott Callahan, 27, 3342 Jonesville-Lockhart Highway, Union, charged by the sheriff’s office with two counts of fraudulent check.
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