Greer Police Arrest The Southern Stamper on Fraud Charges
Carla Brasher: mild mannered scrapbooker or calculating embezzler? Greer Police suspect she may be a little of both.
Brasher stands accused of embezzling more than $162,000 from her employer. She allegedly failed to deposit the money while serving as a bookkeeper for Smith and James Clothing. She faces charges of breach/breach of trust with fraudulent intent.
Carla Brasher also works as an independent stamping and scrapbooking demonstrator and operates a Web site called The Southern Stamper. Looks like moonlighting as the Avon lady of scrapbooking wasn’t lucrative enough.
Brasher is out of jail tonight on on $10,000 bond. Somehow I have a feeling her mugshot won’t make it into her next scrapbook.
Tires Slashed on 11 Cars on Summit Drive in Greenville
When residents of the Summit Place Apartments in Greenville awoke Tuesday morning, many discovered their vehicles had been vandalized overnight. 11 cars were targeted in a tire slashing spree at the the Summit Drive apartment complex, causing hundreds of dollars in damage for some residents:
Resident Jacqueline Hemmingway says she lost her third shift job because she couldn’t make it to work. “That’s going to cost me $200 a tire and I have to replace three. And now I’m broke,“ Hemmingway said.
There are no suspects at this time, but a fellow by the name of Santa Claus assures me that the vandals will be getting a couple of well deserved lumps of coal in their stockings this year.
Two Bodies Found at Home on on Coulter Court in Greer
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The bodies of a man and woman were discovered tonight at a home in Greer. Greer Police and the Greenville County Coroner’s office were both on the scene at 15 Coulter Court as of 8 p.m.
Greenville County Deputy Coroner Scott Ramsey told The Greenville News that the deceased appeared to be in their seventies. Their names have not been released at this time and the cause of death is under investigation.
Greenville Dragnet will bring you more on this breaking story as it becomes available.
Update, Mon. Nov. 23, 11:15 p.m. – [Authorities say the elderly couple found dead in a Greer home were shot to death. News Channel 7 is reporting that foul play is not suspected.]
Update 2, Mon. Nov. 23, 11:50 p.m. – [The gunshot wounds appeared to be self-inflicted, investigators told WYFF4. Concerned neighbors phoned police after not seeing the couple since Saturday night. The husband and wife were last seen walking their dogs, and the dogs have not been located at this time.]
Update 3, Tues. Nov. 24, 12 p.m. – [Police have identified the deceased married couple as 70-year-old Michael Waters and 71-year-old Sandra Waters.]
Mauldin Police Nab Benjamin James Threatt in Online Predator Sting
Have people just not seen Chris Hansen’s To Catch a Predator series, or are they just convinced they’re smarter than the other pervs?
Benjamin James Threatt, 20, of Lancaster was busted in an Internet predator sting last Thursday when he allegedly tried to solicit a Mauldin cop posing online as an underage girl. The sting was part of the Attorney General’s Internet Crimes Against Children Task Force (ICAC).
Fred Cunningham of News Channel 7 reports:
Threatt is charged with one count of criminal solicitation of a minor. The charge is punishable by up to ten years in prison.
The ICAC says Threatt solicited sex on the internet from an individual he believed to be minor girl beginning in July. He was actually communicating with an undercover Mauldin Police officer.
Authorities have taken computer equipment from Threatt’s home into evidence and are holding him at the Greenville County Detention Center on $30,000 bond.
Suspect Arrested in Mauldin Shooting
A suspect is in custody for the Bridges Road shooting that happened earlier this month. He is also suspected in at least three other crimes that happened in the preceding weeks.
From WPSA:
A Simpsonville man is under arrest for a shooting that happened in early November in a driveway on Bridges Road.
William Anthony Butts, 18, is charged with assault and battery with intent to kill. Butts is also charged with three separate robbery incidents dating back to October 18 according to the Greenville County Sheriff’s Office.
Deputies say Butts shot a man in the head on November 3 outside a home at 416 Bridges Road. The victim was treated for the injury and released from Greenville Hospital System.
Butts is also charged with three separate armed robberies at the Corner Mart on Woodruff Road between October 18 and November 5.
Butts remains in the Greenville County Detention Center. No bond has been set for Butts on the shooting charge.
He faces a $10,000 bond for each of the armed robbery charges and possession of a weapon during a violent crime charge.
WYFF is reporting that Butts robbed the same store in all three armed robbery incidents, the Corner Mart at 2608 Woodruff Rd. Those robberies happened on Oct. 18th, Oct. 30th, and Nov. 5th. He was identified by witnesses as the robber in those cases. Joe Friday filed a report on these robberies back on November 6th.