South-Carolina
Former South Carolina deputy faces stalking charge for threatening text messages
LEXINGTON COUNTY, S.C. (WSPA) – A former Richland County sheriff’s deputy was arrested Friday in Lexington County and charged with stalking, in keeping with the South Carolina Regulation Enforcement Division.
Based on an arrest warrant, James Christopher Leaisure, 28, despatched quite a few threatening textual content messages to his partner over a interval of a number of days, together with ones that threatened assault, some that that lady thought-about life-threatening and one which described how he would harm a car so it could not be drivable.
SLED stated Leaisure confirmed in a voluntary interview on Thursday that he wrote the messages. He was instructed to not contact his partner anymore in the course of the investigation, however he continued to contact her the next day, the arrest warrant stated.
Leaisure was booked into the Lexington County Detention Heart.