Greenville County, SC

Just because your neighbor is a regular church-goer doesn’t mean they pay all their taxes.

Lyman R. Rea was just arrested by Greenville County Sheriff’s for failure to pay child support, a search that’s been going on for over 3 years in a case that originated in Missouri.

The member of the 2nd Baptist Church on East Camperdown Way has finally been caught and required to pay $37,000 before his eligibility for release in 6 months.

Curious minds want to know, so: $394,462 / 13 = $30,343.23 per child, proof that crime doesn’t pay.

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According to the FBI’s Preliminary Annual Uniform Crime Report released today, the nation experienced a 1.4 percent decrease in the number of violent crimes and a 2.1 percent decline in the number of property crimes for 2007 compared with data from 2006. The report is based on information that the FBI gathered from 12,032 law enforcement agencies that submitted six to 12 comparable months of data to the FBI for both 2006 and 2007.

The report is broken down into 3 categories: Violent Crime, Property Crime, and Arson.

The last one is particularly interesting given the current disaster in California: “Arson offenses, tracked separately from other property crimes, decreased 7.0 percent nationwide and declined in each of the population groupings.”

Check here for South Carolina crime numbers, & more specifically, Greenville County crime numbers.

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