CHESTERFIELD COUNTY SHERIFF REPORTEDLY FACING INVESTIGATION
The South Carolina State Law Enforcement Division (SLED) is investigating allegations that Chesterfield County Sheriff Sam Parker illegally used inmate labor for work on private property – a common practice among law enforcement leaders in the Palmetto State.
According to our sources, SLED recently interviewed a S.C. Department of Corrections (SCDOC) inmate named Michael Lee in connection with its investigation of Parker. Lee is currently incarcerated on an arson conviction – but several months ago he was busted with a gun belonging to a Chesterfield County deputy.
Circumstances surrounding this gun – and how it came to be in Lee’s possession – are disputed. All we know is that the weapons charges against him have been dropped. We know that during his interrogation by SLED agents, Lee began to spill the beans about his knowledge of Parker’s operation – which is said to include extensive “misuse of criminal labor.”
How far along is the SLED probe?
“The indictment is pending,” one of our sources says.
Parker gained infamy in the Pee Dee region of the state two years ago for his connection to the gruesome shooting of twenty-two dogs at an animal shelter run by the Sheriff’s office. He’s also joined at the hip with several shady characters in this incredibly corrupt region of the state – including disgraced former solicitor Jay Hodge.
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Who is the young lady?
good question.
that looks like a hip hug and a Joe Biden style arm move
My guess is she is his daughter. If so, then how would you like to have this guy as your father-in-law?
I’m thinkin’ it’s his wife. Several years ago I interviewed him and he mentioned his little girl, and he was talking about a child.
Her name is Nikki Gaskins, and she’s a reporter.
Why do we elect so many of these fat ass sheriffs who would have a heart attack if they had to run to their car?
In his defense he probably doesn’t run anywhere….he probably rolls…which frankly is an easier way to chase to perps-just rolling over them that is.
I’m sure his physique was crafted after several sessions of bellying up to the bar…but at some point in time you can’t do that any more and have to turn sideways-I’m guessing he’s approaching that paradigm shift.
Good thing he’s got a taxpayer funded healthcare plan…as he’d bankrupt a private company as an employee.
This reads like a Chesterfield County Jail labor scandal, not “Another SC Prison Labor Scandal”. Also, if Mr. Lee is incarcerated, that would make him a convict; not employee. There’s a significant difference. Which is he? — looks to me like you need to do a little more homework before rushing to tar ‘n feather SCDC.
I am with you on this one, Pee Wee!!!
Mr. Lee has never worked for SCDC. Someone got their facts mixed up.
Isn’t he an a retired sled agent? Can’t wait for results of the “investgation”
Killing all those dogs and cats likely accrued a bunch of negative karma.
“If you don’t work, you don’t eat.”
Sounds like a plan, Will. First…you seize all the infants. Next…you pump the formula out of their little stomachs and toss ‘em into a corner…put a sock in their mouths if they complain too much. After that…well…not so sure…?Maybe you need to call Howard Rich for further instructions…
You idiot! You is on the wrong page….
It’s really not a misuse of clean, environmentally friendly convict labor, it’s actually a “sweepstakes”…
What’s the risk? Look at Goodwin in Abbeville County.
He demanded and rec’d kickbacks for over ten years on auto repairs for the county and was just sentenced to a whopping 10 years SUSPENDED to 5 years on probation.
Why have you not addressed this one Will? Abbeville and Laurens are neighbors you know?
It wasn’t long ago that one of his nephews got rounded up on drug charges by another agency for running drugs in his own county.
….. sounds like good material for a screenplay – “The Sheriffs of the South.” Nikki could also portray a warden at a women’s prison (“gonna kick butt and slam ’em against the wall”).
….. anybody remember those films like “Reform School Girls?” – can’t remember the names of some others
Lust for freedom was another. Some of those chicks were hot. Especially the lesbo action.
Wonder who will take his place as sheriff?
Jay Brooks. Another crook
Ole sheriff ain’t got nothing to worry about.. his pal Ted Vick runs that county. Why shucks, with the power that old Ted wields down there, Sheriff will be a local hero and maybe even off to the FBI academy by weeks’ end.
Sheheen’s in with that crowd too.
Sheheen is an excellent senator and a good man. Can’t wait til he gets voted in as governor.
What happened with Vick’s DUI arrest in Columbia several months back?
Misty:
This DUI has fallen between the crax!!!! It will prbably stay there. Such a shame!!!!!!
FITS helped Sanford get elected…Sanford then gave FITS a job, that we paid for, he no qualifiications for…
Incest is Incest…
yes except for the fact I was the GREATEST PRESS SECRETARY (cue Ali accent) OF ALL TIIIIIIIME!!!
You are a Fighter…as opposed to a lover…
Note to Legislators
Remember when you changed the law that prevents any citizen from becoming a Sheriff’s candidate.
Well, this restriction to the gene pool ain’t working out so well.
Recent events indicate that you have created a cesspool and the biggest turds are rising to the top.
I believe that is Nikki Gaskins…
http://www.abcnews4.com/story/15112694/nikki-gaskins
you are correct, sir …
…. pretty girl, but I don’t understand her connection to this story.
Why is she standing on his toes. ?
Not that I noticed but I do believe his right boob is bigger than her left boob
…. dammit – you made me look!
Of course, all we remember and read about are the sensational stories that undermine Sheriff Parker’s persona.
I’m sorry, this story is a lot of “what if’s” and other he-said, she-said stuff.
The Chesterfield County Sheriff’s Office is staffed by an outstanding group of Men and Women, and I am proud to say that I am a resident of Chesterfield.
I would rather have Sheriff Parker defending my house/property/persona than any of the nay-sayers and criticizers posting here.
I’m sorry, why are there no postings about the departments GOOD deeds? Google Ryan Schallenberger and see if your opinion changes about Mr. Parker.
S. Griggs
Thank you for your kind thoughts and post. Of course, Sam will probably be crucified but you and I, both know who he really is. I trust him 100% with this county. And yes, there is a lot of corruption in this county and SC.
This is crazy!! Sam Parker is one of the most upstanding citizens of Chesterfield County! I am with S. Griggs, I feel safer knowing that he is protecting us and for those of you that are calling him fat, you obviously don’t know the man and how strong he is! I would hate to be on his bad side!
Ryan Schallenberger?? Really with all that has went on in Cnesterfield county you choose Schallenberger? Please google Schallenberger so you can see a real police officer in retired Police chief Randall Lear speaking about him or that fact NO ONE would have known about what he was planning had his own parents not turned him in!! Yes I agree Sam has done some great things for Chesterfield County and has some of the best personell around,but he had nothing to do with preventing Schallenberger that pat on the back goes to the kids parents and no one else. Also Sam is a great guy have known him most of my life, but IF he is wrong he’s wrong no way to sugar coat it. Just because we like a person is not a reason to turn a blind eye to what they do. I love my mom, but if she committs a crime she needs to face the consequences simple as that.
Yes “Big Sam” Parker is a former SLED agent.
Gee! Why am I not surprised?
“He’s also joined at the hip… with… former solicitor Jay Hodge.” Interesting choice of words.
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Anybody know the correct formula for posting pictures here? I emailed Will and, as usual, he didn’t respond…
For those interested, here is a link to photoshop I tried to upload. I put it on a new blog that I set up for odds and ends. It is a very rough copy. While you’re there you may want to look at lesbianbigfoothotties photoshop…
http://luvs2wiggle.wordpress.com/2013/01/22/temporary-photoshop/
Typical behavior of elected officials in our area. They all feel as if they are entitled to special privileges and we as citizens should feel lucky to have them in those positions. I will have to say, he learned from the best! Jay Hodge is a professional at this game and Sam is just following a tried and true successful pattern; monkey see, monkey do I will be VERY surprised if this, like all things in this county, doesn’t just ride off into the sunset sheriff!
Spoke this perfectly
Do you think that they will actually do true investigations of crime scencs or reopen old ones?
What about Ted’s gun charge associated with the DUI? Let’s see—expired cwp, illegaly carrying a concealed pistol into of all places, a police station! Probably be dropped, oh well, life goes on as usual in Chesterfield.
He is so worthless anyway he should be under the jail house but as we all already know this will be no more than a slap on the back of the hand.cfc went down hill years ago not to mention all the young punk cops they have in pageland they all are on nothing more but uniform power trips
Sheriff Parker and the young lady are seeing who has the biggest “boobie”. And of course Sam won!
Here is Sam Parkers (known)record as a Sheriff, of Chesterfield County.
*Deputies dealing Meth out of the patrol car, never suspected or caught by Sam.
*Deputy driving around in county car while intoxicated. Nothing done except reccomended and hired by Cheraw Police Dept. Officer uses the patrol car to “Do doughnuts” in Bojangles parking lot. Officer arrested after hours long stand off with SWAT Team.
*Another deputy selling pills and meth out of patrol car, Sam pledges his allegance and support to the officer, when officer caught by another law enforcement agency. Stated “He is a good officer and I stand behind him”. (Musta been a stupid dealer cause he got caught).
*Animal control officers selling meds used to put down animals at shelter.
* Animal control officers shooting dogs and putting puppies and kittens in plastic bags and buried alive!
*Animal control officers selling pit-bulls to people for dog fighting (all on video). Officers put on PAID LEAVE with full benefits!
*Loaning and transporting county owned, heavy equipment to private property to be used for clearing land. All paid for by the tax-payers.
*Using inmates to personal/monetary gain.
*Allowing two county inmates, to reside at the armory, unsupervised, allowed to leave at free will.
*Repairing a vintage mustang for Hodge, at county repair shop(inmates did the work and county paid for the parts).
Just to name a FEW, commonly known, “Infractions” while he has been in office. Yep….he fits right in around Chesterfield County Leaders,politicians and law enforcement.
I am Country and I know that aint right.
Thank you. NOBODY knows the whole story behind this investigation, not even the sheriff. It’s WAY more than “he said, she said”, and this list posted here is just a tip of the iceberg.
Sled really needs to widen their investigation to Pageland Police Department in Chesterfield County. Parker doesn’t hold a candle to the Pageland Police Chief
WOW! They don’t call it the “dirty” south for nothing. Just a fine example of good ol’ boy politickin’. So all agreed? We vote someone else in next time?
Sounds like the inmate got caught stealing….instead of taking the blame, he’s blaming Sam Parker. If Sam is guilty of anything, its being to nice…..Sam Parker is a good, trustworthy man. I am proud to have him as Sheriff of this county..
Sam Parker is a liar. He is a con artist, and hopefully, he will also soon be an inmate.
Ok…. You sound like Safronia Finch. Only the two you of you can honestly think Sam Parker is trustworthy. Of course, she has an excuse. One must stay loyal to the thieves club when you have as much to hide.
Wow it amazes me how childish adults can be…its the blame game…start a rumor just to see how much gets added to it…Why dont you just ask the person…instead of taking the word of a inmate who is already in jail…one whos admitted that he stole a gun…its always easier to blame another instead of taking responsibility for ones on actions…no ones perfect ..we are all human….but its time to stop playing games…and stop trying to ruin a good mans reputation…
Wow, I can say he is a real piece of sh-t and 90 percent of the dept. along with the want-a- be cops too! To me it seems that karma does come around and it takes care of the REAL villains of the story. We need a new sheriff that will do what he is supposed to and stop breaking the county.
Enough is Enough,
You don’t know what you’re talking about. I understand that you want to protect the reputation of your friend, but first of all, Michael Lee is the one being victimized and his name is the one being dragged through the mud. Nowhere does it say that he admitted to stealing a gun. In fact, he did not. The problem here is not one of “the blame game”. The problem is that Mr. Parker has skeletons in his closet, and when he tried to blame Mr. Lee for something that he didn’t do, SCDC stepped in and took over. Mr. Lee did not blame Mr. Parker for anything. During the course of the investigation, those skeletons have started falling out of Mr. Parker’s closet. If he had not lied on Mr. Lee, that closet would have never been opened.
These so-called “sources” of Will’s have just enough information to be dangerous. They know a little bit about what happened and just made up the rest. Mr. Lee was never an SCDC employee. In fact, he is the one who made 1 mistake (arson of his OWN house) and is paying a high price (15 years) for it. Mr. Parker took advantage of him and tried to ship him off and/or keep his mouth shut about what REALLY goes on in the sheriff’s department. That doesn’t exactly sound like an upstanding and honorable sheriff to me. It sounds like someone who is scared because he KNOWS that his past has caught up with him. “Be sure that your sins will find you out.”
Rumor has it that Sheriff Sam Parker was put in cuffs last night. Anyone have any details?
Parker has always been an arrogant shit. He puts off this persona of being a humbled, selfless individual, but he’s always plotting to better himself. I guess he gets his entitlement attitude honestly, being from Chesterfield County and educated by some of the state’s finest professors on sticking it to the average citizen with no accountability. As for me, I hope they pin him, but when you look at history, generally the ones in his group, and we all know who they are, receive nothing more than a little negative publicity, a smack on the hand, and a promotion.
Clearly, you are from the Chesterfield area. I thought this would be a sweet little area to retire and enjoy some southern charm, get involved with the local school board, town and county councils. Not! From Ted Vick and Brother Chad Vick, Matt Rivers, Jackie Ellerbe,Sam Parker, Jay Brooks, J A Graves and list goes on and on until I have lost count. This is a system of greed, arrogance, entitlement and God be with the common man if he gets in the way. Unless, you have something to offer the powers that be.
Ok….I knew this area was bad. But who knew the local newspaper would not carry a single line about the investigation about Sam Parker !
I know, I know, Jane Pigg is a huge fan, no pun intended, of all the Chesterfield County Mafia (Matt Rivers, Ted Vick, JA Graves, Keith Thomas, Jay Brooks and Jay Hodge)and the idiot editor, Leighton Bell is so busy kissing ass to all of the above named individuals, he certainly isn’t to write anything truthful about them. But come on, The Chronical did not print anything?
NO DAMN WONDER THIS COUNTY IS FULL OF UNINFORMED CITIZENS AND BLIND VOTERS!!!!
Newspapers can’t just blindly print rumors and gossip. They have to have reliable sources, and now they do, with the announcement coming from the Attorney General and Governor’s offices about the sheriff.
Newspapers can’t just blindly print rumors and gossip. They have to have reliable sources, and now they do, with the announcement coming from the Attorney General and Governor’s offices about the sheriff.
I just can’t understand why some of you who seem to have all the answers don’t run for office.
Ladies & Gentlemen, Listen to yourselves, do you “really” know Sam Parker? Probably not even as good as I do, which is very little. So why do you get on here & badger, degrade, & disrespect him when no formal investigation findings have been released!! Have you prayed for or otherwise given your support to this elected official? If not, what right do you have at this point to badger him? If you were in his position the county would so gracefully be thriving under your leadership???? Somehow I would have to doubt that. Stop casting your stones before the investigation is even complete!!! Good grief. God bless Sam P. & All of our ccsd staff leadership. Give them wisdom and grace to fulfill their duties with honor & integrity. Let the investigators do their job & all you who need to, & you know who you are, get a job & stay off your PC playing all day while I feed your butt!! There’s things to be done besides waiting on a free check & playing internet judge!!!! AMEN!
spoken like a true idiot!!!
To Southern Country Boy, the question is do “YOU really” know Sam Parker? I say, NO you don’t. You do, however, sound like one of his minions whom he has cuddled under wide spread enterprise. One that he has built with friends of his and people who needed second chances, instead of people who are actually qualified for the job. As a result, he know finds himself in a “pickle.” And your reference to our county thriving under his leadership, the only thing thriving from his leadership is HIM. Furthermore, your reference to “feeding my butt” and those exercising their freedom of speech rights by posting their thoughts on here and being an “internet judge”.. FYI – You, Southern Country Boy, are not feeding me, nor will you stifle my right to express my thoughts on this forum. So, while you sit there casting YOUR judgement and assumptions, enjoy the check I provide for you!
JA Graves is a great man. Hope he’ll be our next sheriff
ja graves you are kidding me was he not the one involved with leviner in the chop shop ring that got covered up by the solicitor , please do your research i know he would not want all of his so called hidden skeletons to come out, they are sitting and waiting
Do your research. That was never proven…was not charged. He’s married now with wife and child. You can’t always believe everything you hear.
I wanna no why u c the animal control trucks everytime u get on hwy if CCsd don’t have ne thing to do with animal shelter? This will b just like everything else around here nothing else will b mentioned bout Parker and he will prob b voted in again but he won’t have my vote I thank deputies need to slow down bf they hit and kill an innocent family. No call received is more important than mine and my daughters life and we got ran into ditch by one recently. If we’d gOt hit head on at speed deputy was going we’d prob b dead and it’d been our fault in their eyes I thank it’s all bunch bs
I didn’t think the Shelter was under Parker anymore. And speaking to animal congrol trucks being on the road alot,I would hope they were out most of the day picking up strays and not sitting on their butts all day in the office. Personally, I haven’t seen one of them on the road in a very long time.
According to The State Paper, another young rising star in the Legislature Cesspool got caught dui. I guess Mr. Vick from Chesterfield can offer moral support and proper counseling.
There seems to be another pattern developing with their driving habits—–Seems Mr. Sellers does not like to pay traffic tickets.
It doesn’t seem to me like they’d b picking up dogs at 10 or 11 at night didnt no we had an 24hr animal control in chesterfield will have to remember that nxt time dog in neighborhood keeps barking. My understanding was it was bk to paws claws type program dont ever remember expensive trucks having to b used to haul dogs in bf CCsd took over it.
Well, if you see them out at night, then it’s up to you to question the county about it. If they have new trucks,then it is also up to residents to quesiton that too. Do you go to county council meetings? The shelter does more on its own now, since they have a good manager. She is doing a good job. I think Paws n Claws does less than they did before. Not sure.
This is full of uneducated people who are saying uneducated things.
He is no better than us citizins out here if that was us we would have got locked up right away no questions asked but he had a chance to confess but didnt so what gives him the right to do what he did…he deserves what he gets…Sam might have been a good person never had any dealings with him myself but he don’t wrong so now he has to pay
He is no better than us citizins out here if that was us we would have got locked up right away no questions asked but he had a chance to confess but didnt so what gives him the right to do what he did…he deserves what he gets…Sam might have been a good person never had any dealings with him myself but he don’t wrong so now he has to pay
well if sam is guilty of anything it is of helping people that need a leg up i have known him and worked with him 20 plus years ago in the chesterfield co jail he had compassion for those that were in there and was the very professional guy at all times. I am of the opinion that if anything he was trying to help his fellow man and that does not always follow the law the human factor has to prevail or we are in a sad state. what are the details of the contriban charage did he provide a candy bar or cheese burger ? he has helped alot of people in this county he did not have to . will his replacement be Kip Kiser damn he is the biggest crook in the county for sure all hidden behind a funeral home . he cant even embalm a body he hires it done ?? how can he be sheriff ? he only passed mortuary school with the help of classmates (i was one ) he is just a fake at best . wake up people
well if sam is guilty of anything it is of helping people that need a leg up i have known him and worked with him 20 plus years ago in the chesterfield co jail he had compassion for those that were in there and was the very professional guy at all times. I am of the opinion that if anything he was trying to help his fellow man and that does not always follow the law the human factor has to prevail or we are in a sad state. what are the details of the contriban charage did he provide a candy bar or cheese burger ? he has helped alot of people in this county he did not have to . will his replacement be Kip Kiser damn he is the biggest crook in the county for sure all hidden behind a funeral home . he cant even embalm a body he hires it done ?? how can he be sheriff ? he only passed mortuary school with the help of classmates (i was one ) he is just a fake at best . wake up people