EASLEY, S.C. (WSPA) – Climbing the ladder to success is working well for Easley Police Department Detective Melissa Yates.
She grew up in West Greenville and said she saw lots of crime in her younger days. It inspired her to become a police officer, but it needed to be somewhere else.
“I didn’t want to police where I grew up,” Yates said. “Because you always get into a situation where they’re going to say, ‘Oh, man, we’re friends. Why you’re doing this to me?’”…