Suspect charged in fatal accident

Suspect charged in fatal accident

MACEDONIA — The S.C. Highway Patrol has arrested a suspect in connection with a Monday night wreck on Cane Gully Road that killed 28-year-old Jeffrey Foss.

Dylan Moore, 27, of Moncks Corner, is charged with felony driving under the influence, said Cpl. Bob Beres. He said Moore was driving the car.

Foss was a passenger when the vehicle left the road and struck a tree, the Berkeley County Coroner's Office said.

Moore was to be taken late Thursday from Medical University Hospital in Charleston to the Hill-Finklea Detention Center in Moncks Corner to await a bond hearing.

Detainee flees; quickly captured

A detainee in a work release program escaped from the Charleston County Detention Center in North Charleston on Thursday afternoon but was quickly taken back into custody.

Joe Elton Tooley, 44, had just finished a work detail and was being processed back in about 3 p.m. when he bolted, ran across the Mark Clark Expressway and into the Wando Woods community, said Maj. John Clark of the Charleston County Sheriff's Office.

County deputies and North Charleston police worked together and captured the escapee about 45 minutes later, Clark said. He said two police cruisers crashed into each other, but officers were OK.

Tooley is serving time for a failure to pay child support charge and will now also face an escape charge, Clark said.

Masked man tries to rob woman

A woman leaving a North Charleston restaurant on Thursday night got a fright when a man in a scary movie mask tried to rob her.

The 42-year-old woman was walking to her car at the China House on Rivers Avenue about 10 p.m. A man wearing dark clothing and a mask such as the one in the movie "Scream" pointed a black pistol at her and said, "Give me all your money," a police report said. But the potential robber ran away when someone else walked up.

Police searched for the masked man but didn't find him, the report said.

Search warrant results in 3 arrests

Charleston police in an ongoing investigation served a search warrant last week at a downtown home, where they found a large amount of drugs and cash.

At the Athens Court residence, they found 89.6 grams of cocaine base, 7.6 ounces of marijuana and $2,000 in cash, said Charles Francis, police public information officer.

Marion Scriven, 54, of Athens Court; Anthony Blake, 51, of North Charleston; and Benjamin Pringle, 61, of West Ashley, are charged with trafficking cocaine base, possession with intent to distribute cocaine base within close proximity of a school and possession of marijuana with intent to distribute, Francis said.

He said bond for Scriven was set at $450,000; and at $200,000 for Blake and Pringle.