An Augusta tattoo artist was one of two people arrested Tuesday on drug and gun charges.

Heather Camille Palmer, 42, was charged with possession of marijuana with intent to distribute and possession of a firearm during the commission of a crime.  Her unique appearance goes along with her job, which is listed on her Facebook page as a “female tattooist and piercer at Shanes Custom Tattoos and Piercing,” a business located on Gordon Highway.

The business offered a “no comment” on Wednesday, but a man answering the phone said Palmer is not currently working there.

William Skidmore, 29, was also charged with the same drug and gun crimes as well as parole violation and possession of a firearm by a convicted felon.

According to warrants, the suspects were found with about 170 grams of marijuana after a search warrant was executed at 1806 Dixon Airline Road in Augusta. An investigator found the marijuana inside of a gun safe as well as on a dresser located in a bedroom. The marijuana was packaged in clear plastic bags.

Palmer and Skidmore “both had access to the safe and neither claimed the marijuana,” a warrant says.  Authorities also discovered a Norinco SKS rifle in the home, a weapon that was seized.

Both remained in the Richmond County Jail on Wednesday afternoon.

Palmer is pictured at bottom in an image copied from her public Facebook  page.

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Aiken County authorities have jailed a North Carolina man who allegedly traveled to Aiken to have sex with a minor.

David Olin Cameron, 29, of Spring Lake, N.C., was charged with attempted criminal sexual conduct with a minor, a felony punishable by up to 20 years in prison.

The Aiken County Sheriff’s Office, a member of the Internet Crimes Against Children (ICAC) Task Force, made the arrest Thursday. Investigators say that Cameron traveled to Aiken to solicit sex from a minor child.

The case will be prosecuted by the S.C. Attorney General’s Office.  In a press release, S.C. Attorney General Wilson stressed all defendants are presumed innocent unless and until they are proven guilty in a court of law.

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The “suspicious” death of an Augusta man this week followed a two-week drinking binge at the Greene Street apartment he shared with his ex-girlfriend, a sheriff’s report says.

Christopher Welch, 31 (top picture), was found dead Wednesday morning by his ex-girlfriend inside their apartment at 312 Greene Street, authorities said. Coroner Mark Bowen called the death “suspicious” and said final autopsy results will take “weeks.”

But a sheriff’s report suggests alcohol could likely play a role in Welch’s death. Details from the sheriff’s report spell out a timeline given to officers by his ex-girlfriend, Regina Nabriat, as well as a neighbor. The details include:

• Welch and Nabriat (pictured here) had lived together for two years at the apartment. They broke up in February but continued to live together.
• At 9:30 p.m. Tuesday, Nabriat took the victim to the liquor store to buy some vodka. He got a 750 ml bottle of vodka.
• Welch had been drinking all day and for about two weeks straight since he quit his job at Circle K on Reynolds Street. He also had not eaten anything for two weeks.
• At 11 p.m. Tuesday, Nabriat went to bed. She heard Welch try to walk to the bathroom 6-7 times between 11 p.m.-2 a.m. “She said he fell down every single time he tried to go,” a report says.
• Around 2 a.m., Welch fell down again while trying to go to the bathroom and the noise woke his ex-girlfriend up. She went back to sleep and slept through the night and woke up at 8 a.m. but didn’t speak to Welch.
• At 9:20 a.m., Nabriat found Welch face down, tried to speak with him and then touched his arm. “It was cold,” she told investigators.

A neighbor told investigators that she constantly heard fighting in the victim’s apartment. On Tuesday night, she heard a “loud scream” at 11 p.m. that woke her up from a dead sleep. She checked her children and concluded that the scream came from the victim’s apartment.

After Nabriat discovered Welch dead, the coroner’s office sent a deputy coroner, who called the death “suspicious.” But a sheriff’s investigator said the death would be labeled “accidental” pending an autopsy as well as toxicology report.

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Columbia County authorities are desperately looking for the man who allegedly raped and robbed two employees of the King’s Spa in Martinez on Sunday afternoon, authorities said.

According to sheriff’s Capt. Andy Shedd, the man pictured here is wanted for burglary, aggravated sodomy, rape and robbery.

The crimes occurred at 4 p.m. Sunday at the day spa, located at 337 S. Belair Road in Martinez. The victims said he knocked on a door that leads to the back rooms. When an employee answered, he knocked them to the ground and they lost consciousness. The suspect then went to the kitchen area and stole $300 from a drawer.

Once the suspect got the money, he forced a second employee to perform oral sex on him, and then forced her to have sexual intercourse with him. The suspect then fled in a black vehicle.

The suspect’s car is shown here and has after-market wheels.

If you recognize this man or have any information on the crime, please call the Columbia County Sheriff’s Office at 706-541-2800.

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An Augusta man shot himself to death Monday morning, just hours before he faced trial in the fatal stabbing of his wife last summer in Grovetown, authorities said.

Philip Stephen West was facing trial Monday in the malice murder of his wife, 47-year-old Sherri Kay West, 47, at their Shoreline Drive residence on June 14, 2015.

Deputies were called to a home on Killebrew Avenue in Augusta around 8:30 a.m. Monday and found West dead from a self-inflicted gunshot wound.

His death saves prosecutors from prosecuting him in the vicious killing of his wife.

The case was horrific since dispatchers got a 911 call, heard a woman scream and could hear the victim take her last breath on the phone before the receiver went dead. Mr. West answered the dispatcher’s return phone call and claimed everything was fine He said he would open the door when deputies arrived.

When officers arrived, Mr. West had self-inflicted wounds and claimed his wife had stabbed him, according to authorities. His wife (pictured) was found the kitchen floor with stab wounds to her chest, back and side, and she was pronounced dead at the scene.

Mr. West underwent surgery and was interviewed later. He claimed his wife would physically abuse him and degrade him verbally. He said he didn’t remember stabbing her but that maybe it was an accident since he would never intentionally hurt her. He told authorities he cut himself after realizing his wife was dead.

Mr. West was arrested and charged July 8 with his wife’s murder. At some point, he was released on bond pending the trial.

The case is now concluded with his death.

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A local man was found dead from a gunshot wound inside a wrecked car early Tuesday, and his vehicle had evidence of bullets on the exterior, Richmond County authorities said.

Marcus Mandrell Scott, 38, of Keysville (pictured at right with girlfriend Shante Hill), was found slumped over the steering wheel on the 2300 block of Old McDuffie Road in Augusta.

The victim’s 2014 Nissan Versa had left the roadway and crashed through two sets of chain-linked fences at 2384 Old McDuffie Road and then hit a vehicle, a 2014 Toyota Corolla, which was parked at 2386 Old McDuffie Road.

“Inside the vehicle, deputies located (the victim) who was found to have a gunshot wound and was deceased.  The vehicle also had signs on the exterior of being shot,” sheriff’s Sgt. Glen Rahn said in a press release. “Investigators are actively looking into this matter and no further details are available at this time.”

The coroner’s office identified the man as Scott, who had an address on the 300 block of Taylors Bridge Road in Keysville.  He was pronounced dead at 2:45 a.m. Tuesday.

Scott’s body was sent to the GBI Atlanta Lab for an autopsy.

His girlfriend and brother say they were shocked by the death. Girlfriend Shante Hill spent Tuesday morning talking to investigators. She said Scott had been at S Bar last night and may have been followed by someone. Hill said she was told there was a fight there.

“He didn’t have any enemies or anything,” she said. “I think it is something that started at the club. They probably followed him and shot up his car.”

The victim’s brother, Cornelius Scott of Waynesboro, said he woke up this morning to the shocking news of his brother’s death and has not been able to understand it.

“I am just trying to figure it all out,” he said. “The streets here in Augusta are very dangerous, and I am trying to figure it out. And I want some kind of closure and justice for my brother.”

Cornelius Scott said his brother had three daughters and was a proud father and caring and outgoing man. He said his brother had served in the Army National Guard in the 1990s (shown here).

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An Evans teen who wrecked a BMX Park in a high-profile case last year was arrested for DUI on Sunday in Columbia County.

Logan Barker, 17 (pictured), was arrested Sunday night for driving under the influence of alcohol and failure to maintain lane. He was booked into the jail at 11:33 p.m. Sunday and later released on bond.

Barker is the same teen who borrowed his older brother’s 2001 Jeep Cherokee in December 2014 and tore up the new Columbia County BMX bicycle park, which was under construction off Blanchard Woods Drive. The large, four-wheel-drive Cherokee damaged the new sod, mounds, trails and the landscaping design.

The teen was arrested in January 2015 and sentenced in March 2015. A judge ordered him to serve two years on probation and perform 60 hours of community service, which included picking up trash along the road and in the park.

Barker was supposed to pay restitution and surrender his driver’s license for a period of time.

Here’s the kicker: Barker was also ordered to attend “decision-making classes” for six weeks designed to help him make better decisions. It’s unclear if the instructors offer refresher courses.

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An Evans man has been stalking his ex-wife and posting old bikini photos of her on his Facebook.

Lawrence Stafford, a 50-year-old UPS worker with a Tasmanian devil tattoo on his butt, just won’t leave his former spouse alone despite a no-contact order against him, according to a sheriff’s report.

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The suspect’s ex-wife met with deputies Friday at her cosmetology office and said Stafford posted inappropriate photos of her on Facebook. He also tried to call her and texted her several times.

Even the suspect’s friends considered the bikini photos of Stafford’s ex-wife to make for a weird Facebook post.

“What are you doing, dude?” one friend asked under the post.

“I just thought the same thing,” said another.

Sheriff’s Capt. Butch Askew said the photos may feel inappropriate to the ex-wife, but they are not illegal and don’t meet state standards for revenge porn.

Still, the victim said Friday that she was scared to have her ex-husband arrested for just an hour since “he will only get more pissed off and kill her,” according to the report. Officers placed her home on concentrated patrol.

But on Sunday, she went to the Evans substation and said her husband had continued to send text messages, saying he thinks he is gong to get fired from his job. He asked her to come see him before Monday.

He sent two bizarre messages:

• “You’ll never have to worry about me again.”

• “I’ve got a plan for you and you’re not going to like it.”

The victim said the messages were scary and that her ex-husband is unstable and taking three different antidepressants and mixing them with alcohol. She said she was concerned for her safety and the safety of her family since she is about to get re-married.

A warrant was issued based on the no-contact order and Stafford was arrested and taken to jail Sunday night. He was held with no bond.

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There’s been another another death on Cooney Circle in Augusta.

Authorities say 27-year-old Camillia Tubman-Jackson (pictured) was found dead Saturday night inside 1943 Cooney Circle, a small circular street where public housing residents live at Jennings Home Apartments. A Facebook post says she has three children.

“The Sheriff’s Office arrived on the scene and investigators are currently investigating the death as suspicious,” sheriff’s Lt. Allan Rollins said Saturday night in a press release. “The coroner’s office on the scene and investigators are interviewing neighbors and friends. No other details are available at this time.”

The cause of death is unclear and is pending an autopsy next week at the GBI Crime Lab in Atlanta, according to Kenneth Boose Sr. with the coroner’s office.

The death on Cooney Circle comes two weeks after another death on the street.  Marion Terry, 29, (pictured at right), was found dead on May 15 on Cooney Circle, and authorities discovered that he had just participated in a shooting that seriously injured a female neighbor.

An investigation showed that Terry had joined an Augusta teen in shooting a woman Saturday on the same street. According to arrest warrants, 18-year-old Davant’e Parks (pictured in jail mugshot) and Terry shot Brittney McKie at 1806 Cooney Circle.

“(Parks) along with co-defendant Marion Terry who is now deceased, did shoot the victim several times,” a warrant says.

The teen allegedly provided Terry with the firearm and ammunition and went with him to shoot the 25-year-old victim at Jennings Homes Apartments in Augusta.

McKie was treated for injuries to the upper right arm, right thigh, left middle finger.

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An Evans man was arrested for abusing his wife last week after he attacked her and then forced her to sleep on the floor all night, authorities said.

Richard Crawford, 38, was charged with simple battery under the state’s Family Violence Act.

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The wife told authorities that Crawford is a control freak who keeps tabs on her by checking her cell phone. He routinely checks her contacts, emails, text messages and internet history, according to a sheriff’s report.

Last Tuesday, Crawford couldn’t find any internet history since her phone was new.

“He became irate,” a sheriff’s report says. “Richard came after her and began to choke her with both hands.”

He then struck her several times on the head before choking her a second time. She began to feel light-headed and thought she was going to pass out before he stopped.

“Richard made her sleep on the floor the entire night,” the report says.

The victim was unable to contact police until the next day since her husband took away access to her phone. A deputy observed her with a scratch to her cheek, a bruise under her right ear and two scratches to her left forearm.

Crawford was arrested last Thursday.

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He probably thought he was being a Good Samaritan.

He wasn’t.

This man found a wallet that someone left on a display at the Circle K on Lewiston Road in Grovetown. Surveillance video shows him going through the wallet inside the store, taking it to his car and then returning it to a store clerk 10 minutes later.

“When the victim gets the wallet back, it is missing $60,” authorities said.

If you recognize this guy, please call the Columbia County Sheriff’s Office at 706-541-2800.

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A Target shoplifting suspect in Evans who was caught stealing more than $850 in electronics Thursday asked the cop to let him off with a ticket.

“I know I just shoplifted, but could I just get a ticket or something and not have to go to jail?” suspect Henry Campbell reportedly asked the arresting deputy at the Evans Target.

Uh, no.

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If anyone deserved jail, it was this suspect. According to the deputy’s report, he came armed with his own magnet to clear security devices on the electronics. Campbell was seen using the magnet on two Beats headphones, a Fitbit and a Garmin fitness watch. He then placed them into a bean bag chair.

Not only was Campbell arrested, the 35-year-old suspect was tied to another shoplifting at the same store on May 18. That’s when he came with another man and distracted an employee while using the magnet to defeat the protection spider-wrap.

One of the suspects placed the stolen item in a bag and the pair left.

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The Richmond County Sheriff’s Office released this statement Monday on the upcoming gay pride events in Augusta:

“In light of the recent tragedy, the Public Information Office has received numerous inquiries over concerns for safety in our community and specifically for the LGBT Community and their upcoming events. I assure you that the safety of our entire community is the foremost concern of the Sheriff’s Office and all of the men and women who serve our community.

After a tragedy such as the one in Orlando, all Law Enforcement Agencies are naturally on heightened alert with a diligence for security. We are steadfast in our resolve to insure that the upcoming parade and events are trouble free and safe for everyone.

We extend our heartfelt condolences to the City of Orlando and all of her citizens.”

The festival is scheduled for June 24-25. For more information on the pride events, click here. 

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Aiken County authorities are investigating the bizarre shooting death of an elderly North Augusta Man on Monday night.

J. C. Mims, 73, of H and H Street (pictured), was rushed to Augusta University Medical Center after he was discovered shot along his street around 10:45 p.m. Monday. He was pronounced dead at 11:26 p.m., Coroner Tim Carlton said in a press release.

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