String of burglaries leaves Beaufort County residents on edge

BEAUFORT COUNTY, S.C. (WTOC) — At least nine burglaries in three days have left Beaufort County residents shaken as the sheriff’s office searches for multiple suspects.

The break-ins occurred between January 31 and February 2 on Lady’s Island and Saint Helena Island. Homes were targeted overnight, with several residences hit within blocks of each other.

“I go to get out of my car and I’m looking around getting paranoid, in the summer time I do that because of alligators, now I have to do that because of people,” said Kandace Palmer, a Saint Helena Island resident…

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