Shaun Taylor’s Mom Swears He is Innocent, So it Must be True
Forget about the eyewitness and victim of the crime who pulled Taylor out of a line up after he and two as yet unidentified men assaulted her and attempted to drag her into a van. Taylor’s mother Essie says he’s innocent so we should all just move along:
I’ve got money that says she knows something.
Drexel Family Reacts to Arrest of Career Criminal Shaun Taylor
This might be the break police needed in the horrible Brittanee Drexel abduction case.
From Carolina Now:
The family of missing spring breaker Brittanee Drexel is hoping that the arrest of a 37-year-old McClellanville man is the major break their daughter’s case has needed.
Shaun Taylor of McClellanville turned himself in to Myrtle Beach police Wednesday in connection with an attempted abduction incident earlier this month. He is charged with attempted kidnapping and first degree assault and battery.
While it’s still early and authorities haven’t made any official links between the attempted abductions and the Brittanee Drexel disappearance, the Drexel family remains hopeful due to the glaring similarities.
The Drexel’s haven’t seen or heard from their daughter in more than one year.
“We’re tired, you know, we’re very tired. Me and (Brittanee’s father) want some answers that will hopefully lead us to finding Brittanee. Its been a rough year and three months and this may be a big break in Brittanee’s case,” said Dawn Drexel, Brittanee’s mother.
Since Brittanee was last seen leaving the Blue Water Resort on Ocean Boulevard in Myrtle Beach in April of 2009, Dawn has made the more than 800 mile trip countless times between the Grand Strand and her home in Rochester, New York, looking for answers.
Now the family hopes that Wednesday arrest of Shaun Taylor may provide those answers.
“I have heard his name before and his brother’s and his circle of his friends,” said Chad Drexel, Brittanee’s father. “So, this is a positive thing for this family… the family and law enforcement feel that it’s no coincidence that it’s within the same proximity (of Brittanee’s disappearance).”
Shaun Taylor was identified in a line up as one of three men who attacked a 20-year-old girl on the street, trying to drag her into a van. Obviously they were at the very least attempting to rape the woman. When police executed a search warrant on his house they found a stolen truck linked to a Charleston County homicide. Though Taylor was never officially named a person of interest in the case, police dragged him in for questioning early on due to his history. Taylor is a dead beat father with a history of drug offenses and domestic violence, and what’s more disturbing is that his brother Randall Keith Taylor was one of four men who beat a rap for murder in a case 1998 due to lack of evidence.
That case involved a missing teen girl.
Taylor was given an outrageously low bond given the serious of the new charges and his history of criminality. Keep Britanee and her family in your prayers.
What’s in the Water in Newberry, South Carolina
First there was a vicious “hate crime” that just happened to involve two men who had been friends for years.
Then the New Black Panther Party hate cult showed up threatening to cause more racial strife.
And let’s not forget Jesus Lopez, the “tattoo artist” who put two underage teens in the hospital with staph infections.
Now we have a 35-year-old David Jackson kidnapping his infant son after what police describe as a “vicious” assault on the child’s mother by him and his stable of street walkers, one of whom is only identified as a woman named “Bunny.” Luckily this story had a happy ending (no offense to Jackson’s three “traveling companions”) and little Drake Boyd is home safe and hopefully herpes free.
From Fox Carolina:
NEWBERRY, S.C. — The Tennessee Bureau of Investigation said that Drake Boyd has been located and recovered safely. Greene County authorities said his father, David Jackson, is not in custody.
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Deputies said that a trooper stopped to check on an abandoned vehicle found in the emergency lane of eastbound Interstate 26 near mile marker 74 just after 8 a.m. They said that when the trooper ran the vehicle’s license plate number, he discovered the car was stolen from Tennessee and contacted Newberry County deputies.
Investigators said that the vehicle found matched the description of a vehicle believed to be involved in the kidnapping of Drake Boyd from his mother’s home in Greene County, Tenn.
Deputies said that they launched a massive search of the area surrounding the car in an effort to find Drake and the suspect in the case, 35-year-old David Jackson.
Let’s hope they find Jackson soon, before he sics his pack of hookers on some other innocent person.
Judging from his mugshot on Fox Carolina I can tell you one thing that’s probably in the water in Newberry – marijuana. Funny, you just don’t see people who have embraced sobriety bringing hookers across state lines to attack their baby momma.
“Coyote” Safe House Found in Greenville?
S.W.A.T. teams were called out to a house in Greenville County after a hostage situation was called into police. After a stand off ALL seven people found in the house were detained and police will not release their names or anything but the most basic information.
SLED officers told WSPA that the bust was related to the “growing drug trade’ in the area:
A hostage situation unfolded as SLED agents rushed to the scene.
In the end–more than half a dozen people were taken into custody–in what agents say is part of a growing drug trade in the Upstate.
This all unfolded on Sulfar Springs drive in Berea this afternoon.
News Channel 7 was the only news crew at the scene.
Agents handcuffed 7 people, taking them into custody.
The director of SLED tells us they got word this morning that three people were being held hostage inside the home.
SLED isn’t able to say how they were alerted to the hostage situation.
When swat team members and agents got there–a standoff ensued until the suspects inside surrendered.
Agents are still trying to determine who is who amongst those in the house. And they can’t yet give identities or where the suspects are from.
Significantly, while weapons were found at the house no drugs have been reported. Human smugglers are often also involved in drug smuggling so these thugs may have gotten on to LE radar during drug investigations. It is a common practice for “coyotes” to hold people who contracted with them to hostage for extra cash. It is especially likely when the illegals are young women, who the smuggling gangs force into prostitution.
WSPA has raw video of the arrests.The house was on Sulfar Spring Drive in Berea.
Word on the street is that a bad apple looking for drugs or hookers turned Good Samaritan when he or she saw what was going on.
Also a rumor Dr. Know sent me is that MS-13 has been smuggling illegals into South Carolina for years and have moved into Greenville County. I found a 2006 story from WIS10 which details Richland county’s problems with the gang and they are very active in North Carolina.
But again these are just rumors for now. We’ll keep digging.
Todd Michael Taylor Arrested for Rape Attempt on Wade Hampton High Student
As the investigation unfolded into the attempted kidnapping and rape of a 15-year-old Wade Hampton High School student it became clear to investigators that the assailant must have been an older causal acquaintance of the girl. The man the victim knew only as “Todd” was clearly a predator who made contact with the girl and waited for an opportune time to attempt to abduct her.
Now police have arrested 43-year-old Todd Michael Taylor for the assault. From GreenvilleOnline:
Authorities have charged a Lyman man in a February incident where investigators say a Wade Hampton High School student escaped an attempted kidnapping and sexual assault after accepting a ride home from a man.
Todd Michael Taylor, 43, 55 Granny Mack Ridge, Lyman, has been charged with kidnapping, assault and attempting to commit a lewd act on a minor, according to warrants.
WSPA has a follow up with the victim and her family. She met the man once at a restaurant and “trusted him” when she met him again, proving that parents and schools need to teach young people not to trust middle age men who want to befriend them. Taylor is being held on $160,000 bond, which is small change for a man who tried to rape a child.
Update: Here’s the victim in her own words: