Deputy Michael Kennedy, 34, arrested for DUI in West Columbia, was fired by Richland County Sheriff Leon Lott. Kennedy joined the department in August 2023. Skip Navigation.

Sheriff Leon Lott has announced the arrests of Travis Harrison, 33, Emerson Crespo, 36, and Devon Huguenin, 19 in relation to a double homicide. On September 4, 2024, around 9:00 pm, deputies ...

Sheriff Leon Lott urges parents to act after April 2 Columbia Place Mall and April 5 Blythewood shootings involving teens, guns, and multiple arrests.

During the Spring Valley High press conference, Leon Lott had plenty to say about the victim's guilt in the incident. During the conference, ...

Richland County, SC Sheriff Leon Lott updated the conditions of one of his deputies, and his fiancee, who were injured in a shooting. Crime & Courts ‘Get ready,’ Richland County sheriff ...

COLUMBIA, S.C. — Richland County Sheriff Leon Lott said he could have a decision by the end of Wednesday on whether or not a deputy involved in an incident at Spring Valley High School will be ...

Richland County Sheriff Leon Lott is disputing that account. Lott, before the media on Sunday, called the weapon a “wooden stake,” and he said Moorer-Charley was shot four times.

Richland County Sheriff Leon Lott and internal investigators protected a deputy from 2010 to 2019 who they had reason to know was a sexual predator, lawyers in a civil suit alleged in a Wednesday ...

COLUMBIA, S.C. – When Texas Rangers called Richland County Sheriff Leon Lott to let him know one of their prisoners had confessed to shooting a woman in the head 40 years ago in his county, Lott ...