The Beaufort County Sheriff’s Office is investigating a potential contraband incident involving an elected official from the county’s council.
The council member brought a cell phone into the Beaufort County Detention Center and took a photo with an inmate inside a jail cell, according to the county’s top law enforcement officer, Sheriff P.J. Tanner, who described the possible crime as “serious.”
In South Carolina, bringing contraband into a county jail is a felony punishable by a fine or up to ten years in prison. The South Carolina Department of Corrections specifies that cell phones, other than those with specific exceptions, are considered contraband…