Crime & Safety
Detention Center Officer Charged with DUI
A Charleston County Detention Center officer is on administrative leave without pay following a DUI arrest on Folly Beach Monday morning

Alfred Joseph Asher, 29 and a detention officer at the Al Cannon Detention Center, was arrested on Folly Beach and charged with DUI at 2:45 a.m. Monday, according to a statement from the Charelston County Sheriff's Office.
Asher has been placed on administrative leave without pay following the arrest, according to the statement. He began working at the Charleston County jail facility in 2006.
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