As a month-long and widespread investigation spurring from a selfie taken from a Beaufort County jail cell continues into its final stage, it is unlikely that criminal charges will follow for one of the county’s elected officials.
In a wide-ranging question and answer session Friday afternoon, Beaufort County Sheriff P.J. Tanner, along with the department’s lawyer Daniel Gourley, took questions from reporters about the ongoing month-long investigation that started after a Beaufort County councilman visited the county’s detention center on Aug. 20.
Councilman Tom Reitz, who represents the southern half of Hilton Head Island, visited Calvin “Skip” Hoagland — a local government critic and part-time resident — while he was serving time in the jail. It was during the 40-minute visit that Reitz, who brought two cellphones through security and into the facility, and snapped a photo in Hoagland’s jail cell…