Crime & Safety

18 Busted on Drug Charges

11 of those charged are Clemson students

Editor's note: One person's name was removed from this report because his or her charges were dismissed.

UPDATED: 7:06pm, Friday, January 4

Editor's Note: The original wording of this article was confusing in regard to one of the men arrested. Domen Jemec was charged with Altering or Using an Altered Drivers License, a misdemeanor charge.

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Pickens County Sheriff's Deputies have charged 19 people on various charges, including some drug charges.

Pickens County Deputies worked with deputies from Oconee County, as well as Clemson University and Clemson City police officers, according to a Pickens County Sheriff's Office release.

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Charges include sale of marijuana, sale of a controlled substance and sale within proximity of a school or daycare, the release stated.

A total of 66 warrants were served on the nineteen arrested, eleven of which are Clemson students. Additional warrants are outstanding for four other subjects that have not been arrested at this time.

Seized during these arrests were $6,351 in cash, over 289 grams of high grade marijuana valued over $5000.00, one handgun that was reported stolen from Oconee County, 3 long guns, and various electronic equipment, including a professional grade ID card machine capable of placing a hologram on ID cards. This machine was used to make false identification cards.

These arrests are the result of a six months joint investigation by agents with Pickens and Oconee Sheriff’s Offices, Clemson University PD, Clemson City PD and SLED.

The names and addresses of those charges are as follows:

Jake Christopher John Abbate

1711 Muscovy Way

Seneca

Phillip Michael McRae, Jr.

106 Hawthorne Street

Clemson

Leon Miles Bagwell

Oconee County

Derian Mills Snyder

377 Cross Creek Rd., Apt. E

Central

Ernest William Baldwin

141 Weatherly Drive

Six Mile

Trevor Vandewater

Edinburg Rd.

Seneca

John Michael Conner

98 Clemson Place Circle

Clemson

James Daniel Webster, Jr.

316-A Cross Creek Road

Central

Jordan Michael Decot

110 North Clemson Blvd.

Clemson

Jamaal James Anthony White

107 Hawthorne Street

Clemson

[Name Withheld]

Clemson

Arthur Anthony Winfield

812 College Avenue, Apt. 8

Clemson

Geena Lynn Hammond

138-E University Village Drive

Central

Dallas Adam Young

address unknown

Quinn Peyton Harris

138-E University Village Drive

Central

Kimberly Ann Youngblood

100 Jesse Lane

Six Mile

Six Mile, SC 29682

Domen Benjamin Jemec

343 Old Greenville Hwy, Clemson

UPDATE: Jemec was not charged with any drug charges. He was charged with received a traffic/alteration of license, sale of fictitious license charge, a misdemeanor.

Jason Scott Youngblood

118 Little Cove Trail

Pickens, SC 29671

Phillip Michael Mader

145 Pond Ridge Rd.

Lexington, SC

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