During the holidays the Salvation Army in Charleston received a check for $25,000. To what seemed like a perfect time to help families in need, the charity cashed the check and provided food and toys for around 100 families. Captain Anthony Juliana is head of the Lowcountry Salvation Army and says they had no reason to suspect what they would find next.

“They ran it through in the deposit process, there was magnetic ink and all that sort of thing. The check itself was real, the problem was it was attached to an account that had been closed. So, there wasn’t any indication from the bank or even when we received it that it would have been anything other than a legitimate check,” says Juliana. [Read more...]

A mistrial has been declared for a man who left his 10-month-old child in his car when he went inside of a Myrtle Beach strip club. After three hours of deliberation a jury could not reach a verdict for the father, Geoffrey Hale, who was charged with unlawful conduct for leaving his 10-month-old daughter in the car while he went inside of a local strip club.

The Sun News of Myrtle Beach reports an officer found Hale surrounded by girls on October 15, 2008 inside of Derriere’s Gentleman’s Club, while his daughter, Addison, was sleeping in the car. Hale testified in court that he was going into the club, where his wife worked as a dancer, to get a cell phone. He says he left his daughter in the car while he waited for his wife to finish dancing to one song. Hale claims he left the car on, but not running. Although the jury could not reach a verdict, a new trial is expected.