COLUMBIA, S.C. The South Carolina Law Enforcement Division has charged a Blythewood man with threatening the life of a public official, accusing him of mailing letters that referenced a silencer, the official’s workplace and where the official’s children attend school.
Dewayne Simmons, 57, was charged Thursday, June 4, with threatening the life, person or family of a public official, SLED announced Friday. He was booked into the Alvin S. Glenn Detention Center in Richland County.
State law treats such threats as a felony when they are tied to an official’s public duties. SLED has brought similar charges in several South Carolina counties over the past year…