Man gets 27 years for attempted murder

A Fountain Inn man was sentenced to 27 years in prison after pleading guilty Monday in 8^th Circuit General Sessions Court to attempted murder.

Quientin Eugene Spearman, 54, pleaded guilty to the October 2018 stabbing of a woman in Fountain Inn. He was arrested by Fountain Inn police after he stabbed his then girlfriend several times with a box cutter.

Spearman received credit for 443 days of time served.

 

Greenville man pleads in arson case

A Greenville man pleaded guilty Monday in 8^th Circuit General Sessions Court to burglarizing and setting fire to a residence in Clinton.

John Paul Clark, 52, was sentenced to 10 years following his guilty plea to second-degree arson. Under the plea arrangement, he will serve three years in prison with the balance to be suspended to probation, and a first-degree burglary charge was dismissed.

Clark also received credit for 190 days of time served.

 

Two arrested after home invasion

A man and a woman from Clinton were arrested Friday by Laurens County Sheriff’s deputies and charged with breaking into a home in Joanna and robbing the resident there.

Andrew Kyle Abercrombie, 30, and Tiffany Neal Johnson, 33, were charged with first-degree burglary, first-degree assault and battery, possession of a weapon during a violent crime, kidnapping and armed

robbery.

According to reports, Abercrombie and Johnson forced their way into the residence while armed with a handgun. They then struck the resident and tied him to a chair. They then allegedly took debit cards from him.

Abercrombie and Johnson remained in the Johnson Detention Center Tuesday with bonds set at $95,000 each on charged related to that incident.