AIKEN COUNTY, S.C. (WJBF) — South Carolina’s Main elections are on Tuesday, June 11.
Aiken County voters casting ballots to switch long-serving Sheriff Michael Hunt.
“I’ve by no means heard ladies say that. I simply don’t really feel protected; by no means in Aiken County. We had been the second most secure county in South Carolina and now we’re not,” Stuart Prettel mentioned.
Prettel, a sheriff candidate in Aiken County, has in depth regulation enforcement expertise. He’s labored in narcotics, visitors, DUI job pressure, and as an investigator in numerous South Carolina counties. “I labored the road my whole profession,” he recalled.
He’s interacting instantly with the group, by visiting properties, and talking with folks on the streets. He hears studies of a number of drug homes and folks promoting medication to minors. “You’ve gotta do is deliver narcotics brokers in who’ve by no means been in Aiken County earlier than ever, and begin making instances and begin hitting, writing up search warrants and hitting these crack homes all throughout the county,” he shared.
If elected, Prettel plans to enhance deputies’ working situations and group policing. “We’ve acquired to have a group program for teenagers to indicate them that the law enforcement officials are usually not their enemy,” he mentioned. “After I was a child, if I acquired in hassle, my mother and father at all times taught me, go to a police officer, he’ll enable you to. And that has fully modified, however it’s acquired to return to the place it was,” he added.
The Republican main winner will face Democrat Lucas Grant within the common election.
The winner of the overall election will change Michael Hunt.
You’ll find our story with Marty Sawyer and Ed Wilson, here.
