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Think your phone’s not tracking you? Google services on Android, iPhone devices store your locations even if you’re using a privacy setting SERVING SOUTH CAROLINA SINCE OCTOBER 15, 1894 A5 TUESDAY, AUGUST 14, 2018 75 CENTS Judge says winner Sheriff: Suspect is of coroner’s race won’t be on ballot sovereign citizen Filing for new election starts today Man wanted in shooting is part of group that violently BY DANNY KELLY A special filing period clashes with law enforcement, doesn’t believe in our laws [email protected] will start today at noon and BY KAYLA ROBINS Monday in Jasper County, Geor- last until noon on Aug. 21 [email protected] gia, and is being actively searched The judge who ruled ear- for coroner in Clarendon for by officers in South Carolina, lier this month that La- County. If more than one A Moorish sovereign citizen with a combat- North Carolina, Georgia, Florida Nette Samuels-Cooper is person files, an election ive past against law enforcement is suspected and Kentucky, all places he has not qualified to be a coro- will be held on Sept. 4. in a fatal shooting of a man at a Sumter Coun- been known to live, Sumter Coun- ner in Clarendon County Samuels-Cooper beat ty auto repair shop, and authorities are warn- BROWN ty Sheriff Anthony Dennis said at and South Carolina an- Clarendon County Coroner ing he is considered armed, dangerous and a news conference Monday after- swered a request to clarify Bucky Mock in the primary still at large. noon. his ruling and said Monday but was deemed ineligible Sumter County Sheriff’s Office investigators Officers responded to Auto Doctors on South she needs to be taken off have identified Demetrius Alexander Brown, the ballot. SEE CORONER, PAGE A7 who fled the scene Saturday and was seen SEE SUSPECT, PAGE A7 Rising seventh-grader Alyse King, right, of the all-girls science team at Alice Drive Middle School, holds the spaceflight experiments program project after it was opened Friday in a special ceremo- ny at the school. Team- mates, from left, are Mary Brooke Mooneyham, Alana Garrick and Ashlin Farmer. PHOTOS BY MICAH GREEN / THE SUMTER ITEM BY BRUCE MILLS school, Alyse King and Ashlin Farmer, [email protected] were able to do just that after being t did. It really did,” said Alice selected in January for a student Drive Middle School student spaceflight experiments program to Alana Garrick. the International Space Station. “Yay,” said fellow rising The National Center for Earth and I Space Science Education, which is “seventh-grader Mary Brooke Mooney- ham. staffed with professional scientists and That’s after the two learned on Fri- engineers in Washington, D.C., spear- day in a special ceremony at the school heads the program and selects a limit- that sodium polyacrylate can be used ed number of schools to participate in in space for seed germination and the spaceflight experiments program Alice Drive Middle School Curricu- plant growth. ... What? every two years. lum Coordinator Stephanie Barri- No one would get excited about The all-girl team from Alice Drive neau, left, allows Alana Garrick to that, unless you can learn it by chance Middle was a group from one of only open a shipping box Friday at the in a unique and special way. 31 schools and colleges in the U.S., school containing her team’s space- Garrick and Mooneyham, along with SEE SPACE, PAGE A3 flight experiments program project. fellow sixth-grade scientists from the VISIT US ONLINE AT DEATHS, B4 WEATHER, A10 INSIDE Thomas W. Geddings Jr. Robert Lee Rhames SUNNY AND HOT 2 SECTIONS, 16 PAGES the .com VOL. 123, NO. 212 John Jerry Rogers Wayne Elijah Sanders Partly sunny today; clear Sylvester Edward Jones Mary Belle McCoy to partly cloudy tonight Classifieds B6 Sports B1 Olgia Erline McLeod Dawkins Gerald D. Hiner Sr. Comics A8 Television A5 James William Stanley Sr. Minnie Miller Mayrant HIGH 93, LOW 72 Boyd Murphy Jr. Helen Cato Boswell Opinion A9 Dorothy Ann Jones Grooms A2 | TUESDAY, AUGUST 14, 2018 THE SUMTER ITEM Call: (803) 774-1226 | E-mail: [email protected] Council to discuss dam project, $2.5M bond FROM STAFF REPORTS All members of Sumter County p.m., if it ends early. ferson Road to encourage a manufac- Council are members of the Forfeited Sumter County Council will meet turer to locate on the site; Sumter County Public Works/Solid Land Commission. at 6 p.m. today in County Council • First reading of an ordinance to Waste Committee will meet at 4:30 Sumter County Council will hold a Chambers, third floor of Sumter amend portions of the county's flood p.m. today in County Council Confer- special called meeting at 5:30 p.m. County Administration Building, 13 damage prevention ordinance to ence Room to receive an update on today in County Council Chambers to E. Canal St., to consider: adopt Wateree Watershed Maps and the Second Mill Dam project; and to receive information about the $2.5 • Third reading of an ordinance to Flood Insurance Study revisions that receive information about abandon- million capital bond it approved in amend a planned development for will become effective on Sept. 28. This ing maintenance duties for Ohana June to fund multiple purchases and property at 350 Myrtle Beach High- proposed amendment will also make Circle, Forest Drive Cul-De-Sac, a projects, mainly for county depart- way specifically for the addition of corrections and clarifications noted portion of Winston Road, a portion of ments. used motor vehicle parts as a permit- in the 2017 South Carolina Depart- Earle Street and Alpenglow Court. Council will also receive an update ted use on a 9.95-acre portion of a 47- ment of Natural Resources Commu- Council members Gene Baten, on Robert's Rules of Order, which acre parcel; nity Assistance Visit and the Commu- Artie Baker and Chris Sumpter serve pertains to council's procedures re- • Second reading of an ordinance to nity Rating System Cycle Visit; and on this committee. garding recusals during meetings. approve an intergovernmental loan • First reading of five individual or- Sumter County Forfeited Land Later, council will receive a legal agreement with South Carolina Pub- dinances to authorize the transfer of Commission will meet at 5 p.m. today briefing and discuss an employment lic Service Authority, to be secured five separate streets to the adjoining in County Council Conference Room matter during an executive session. by a mortgage, to construct an eco- property owners, in title only: Ohana to discuss contractual matters for 10 This meeting will begin immediate- nomic development building and ad- Circle, Forest Drive Cul-De-Sac, Win- properties during an executive ses- ly after the forfeited land commission joining building pad on 20 acres at the ston Road, Earle Street and Alpen- sion. meeting, which is scheduled for 5 corner of North Wise Drive and Jef- glow Court. Churches show appreciation for first responders 3 Sumter residents plead guilty to insurance fraud, ordered to pay restitution FROM STAFF REPORTS Sumpter began when he Sumter residents Ty- presented a fraudulent keem Ra Hsan Jomal claim to USAA Insurance Sumpter, 23, Raekwon Co. for bodily injury. Rasheen Reyes Owens, Sumpter sent USAA a 22, and Khalil Jabraun bill from Palmetto Health Hilton, 19, entered guilty Tuomey for a time when pleas on Aug. 9 on insur- he was never seen there ance fraud charges ac- and used an invalid ac- cording to a news release count number. Five hun- from South Carolina At- dred dollars was paid out torney General Alan Wil- to Sumpter before the in- son. surance company real- Sumpter pleaded guilty ized the claim was fraud- to one count of Making a ulent. False Statement or Mis- The fraud incident representation Between with Owens occurred $1,000-$10,000; Owens after the defendant was pleaded guilty to one in a staged car accident count of Presenting a on June 6, 2017. Owens False Claim for Payment presented a fraudulent Between $2,000-$10,000 claim to GEICO for bodi- and one count of Resist- ly injury using hospital ing Arrest; and Hilton bills in the amount of pleaded guilty to one $4,087. GEICO sent count of Making a False Owens $828.21 before the Statement or Misrepre- company realized the sentation Less than claim was fraudulent. $2,000. The claims were flagged Judge George M. Mc- due to the bills being al- Faddin Jr. accepted the tered. Special Agent Joe pleas and sentenced Neff attempted to serve Sumpter and Owens to Owens with warrants prison on their charges from the incident in suspended to probation. March. Owens fled, but As a special condition of Neff was able to arrest probation, Sumpter and him after a brief strug- PHOTOS BY ADRIENNE SARVIS / THE SUMTER ITEM Owens are ordered to pay gle. Members of Long Branch Baptist Church on Peach Orchard Road, along with members of neighboring $500 of restitution to The incident with Hil- churches, provided lunch and treats for Sumter County's first responders on Saturday. The congregations USAA and $828.21 of res- ton began on April 28, prepared food, wrote messages and had posted art by its youngest members for the first responders to titution to GEICO, re- 2017, with a vehicle colli- see while they dined. spectively. McFaddin sion on Plowden Mill sentenced Hilton to a Road. Hilton solicited a $100 fine. co-defendant to go to the Restaurant news “Insurance fraud may hospital and pose as Hil- seem like a victimless ton.