Chief investigator @Queen_City_News. @UofSC. Carolinas born. 2X dad 1X hubs. "You can't go nowhere when you go by the book." -Waylon
Mar 5, 2023 • 25 tweets • 14 min read
ICYMI: While the world was focused on #AlexMurdaghtrial last week, we broke a major development in a hemp farmer's civil suit against SLED Chief Mark Keel.
A judge hit the state's top law enforcer with an $11,307.26 fine for discovery abuses.
Original report:
In 2019, SLED raided Trent Pendarvis' Dorchester County farm and destroyed his hemp crop. SLED claimed Pendarvis willfully violated the new hemp farming act by planting his hemp allotment in a different field than he listed on his license application.
Sep 23, 2021 • 18 tweets • 11 min read
Here’s something I’ve never seen before & can’t find anywhere: a fed agent seized $115K from a man @RDUAirport. The agent says he’s going to launch a fed investigation of money laundering & drug activity.
Then offers the man a way out: surrender his cash & no investigation:
That man’s name is Ramon Lyon. He says he was flying to Cali to buy gaming machines for his gaming biz in Raleigh.
He packed his $115K in his luggage & showed up for his flight. He ended up in an interrogation room…
