COLUMBIA, S.C. — Nearly three dozen people are charged with being part of a methamphetamine ring run by South Carolina prison
inmates who used smuggled cellphones, state prosecutors said Tuesday.The state grand jury indictments announced by Attorney General Alan Wilson accuse 34 people of operating multiple, connected drug trafficking operations across the state. Charges range from
methamphetamine and heroin trafficking to weapons crimes, prosecutors said.The defendants include two inmates at maximum-security state prisons. According to Wilson, inmates at prisons... |