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February 2, 2010
Spartanburg County clerk of court arrested
Spartanburg County Clerk of Court Marc Kitchens was arrested this morning on federal drug charges.
Kitchens is accused of stealing and attempting to sell drugs from the Spartanburg County Courthouse's evidence room. He was formally charged with conspiring to possess with intent to distribute cocaine and methamphetamine between April 2009 and January 2010 – a charge that carries a maximum sentence of $2 million and 20 years in prison.
This one is pretty unbelievable. The allegations are that Kitchens took drugs from the clerk's evidence room - drugs that being held as evidence in cases that have already been to court, that is being preserved while a case is on appeal for example - and attempted to sell the drugs to an undercover informant who was working with the DEA.
