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Sheriff Donnie Craig reminded members of the Chamber of Commerce at their monthly breakfast meeting on August 12th that we are lucky to live in Pickens County, where things are not nearly as bad as social media would indicate.
Craig, who joined the sheriff’s office in 1992 as a jailer and is now in his fourth term as sheriff, pointed out that crime (except for road/traffic) is down considerably here. A slide from his presentation showed that over the past five years, burglary was down 17 percent; thefts were down 29 percent; assaults were down 18 percent, while DUI arrests were up 104 percent…