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Deputies Arrest Fourth Person in String of Convenience Store Burglaries

The burglaries happened at stores in Lexington and West Columbia.

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Deputies arrested a fourth person Friday in connection with a string of convenience store burglaries in Lexington and West Columbia. 

Dontrell Dwayne Sharperson, 19, of Orangeburg turned himself in to Richland County Sheriff's investigators Friday, according to the Lexington County Sheriff's Department. He is charged with four counts of armed robbery, four counts of criminal conspiracy, three counts of possessing a weapon during the commission of a violent crime and two counts of kidnapping.

Sharperson and the three other people who were arrested are all members of the Bloods gang, according to the sheriff's department. 

Sharperson was being held Sunday at the Lexington County Detention Center on bail totaling $950,000. 

Deputies say the four men committed four robberies on Augusta Road and Sunset Boulevard at these convenience stores: 

  • a Pitt Stop convenience store at 3809 Sunset Boulevard on May 23
  • a Circle K convenience store at 2308 Augusta Road on June 23
  • a Kangaroo Express convenience store at 3950 Augusta Road on July 8
  • a Murphy Express convenience store at 4873 Augusta Road on July 12
Detectives say that in each robbery, the robbers covered their faces with cloths or masks, ran in the stores, forced clerks to open cash registers and stole an undetermined amount of money, tobacco products and beer before driving off. 

Detectives also got arrest warrants for 18-year-old Antwon Jamal Brown of Columbia in connection to three of the robberies. He is being held at the Alvin S. Glenn Detention Center on unrelated charges.

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