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WEDNESDAY, JULY 31, 2013 | SUMTER, SOUTH CAROLINA
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Jury declares rapper guilty on 1 count of intimidation BY ROBERT J. BAKER bbaker@theitem.com A 29-year-old man accused in January of threatening two judges in a rap video posted on YouTube was given a four-year sentence on Tuesday after a jury convicted him on one of two charges. Rodregiz Anthony Cole was found guilty after little deliberation on Tuesday afternoon of intimidating a COLE public official but not guilty of one count of threatening the life of a public official. Twelfth Circuit Court Judge Michael G. Nettles sentenced Cole to seven years in prison, suspended to four years in prison and two GADSON years’ probation to follow. Cole and his attorney, Shaun C. Kent, had argued that Cole and Keith Allen Norman Gadson were utilizing metaphor when they mentioned 3rd Circuit Judge R. Ferrell Cothran and 3rd Circuit Drug Court Judge Amy Land in a song posted to YouTube in December 2012. SEE VIDEO, PAGE A10
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After an almost four-hour manhunt over a two-mile area of woods and farmland east of Sumter on Tuesday, Sumter County sheriff’s deputies take burglary suspect Terrance Jamell Barno, seen above middle, and alleged accomplice Jerome Marquise Daniels into custody. Barno was spotted when he emerged onto a residential section of Fletcher Drive covered with patrol cars.
Reported burglary leads to 4-hour chase in east Sumter BY BRISTOW MARCHANT bmarchant@theitem.com A report of a burglary Tuesday morning resulted in a car chase, an SUV driving through a cornfield and a manhunt for the suspects through a wooded area, all ending with law enforcement vehicles flooding a residential street. Terrance Jamal Barno, 25, and Jerome Marquise Daniels, 20, were ulti-
mately taken into custody and charged with seconddegree burglary after an extensive, almost fourhour search in a rural area of east Sumter off U.S. 76. On Tuesday afternoon, two neighbors were standing outside their homes near the dead end of Fletcher Drive talking about the multiple patrol cars clogging the street and the search helicopter flying overhead, then reportedly spotted Barno
coming out of the woods. “I saw him come out of the bushes, and he said, ‘hey,’” said resident Henry James, “and I was like ‘oh, hell no.’” Barno attempted to walk calmly across the street where several sheriff’s patrol cars were already parked, but neighbors quickly recognized the shirtless young man was not a regular in the area. “We were just standing
there having a general conversation, then all of a sudden this guy is just standing in my yard,” said Anthony Robinson. “I said, ‘There he is!’” The drama began about 10 a.m., when Sumter County sheriff’s deputies received a call about a burglary in progress at a home on Danville Lane near the intersection of West Brewington Road
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BELOW LEFT: Law enforcement had to enlist a neighbor with a tractor to pull the suspected vehicle driven by the suspects out of a Brewington Road cornfield Tuesday. After leading deputies on a chase, the car reportedly became stuck in the corn, far off the roadway. BELOW RIGHT: Deputies with a canine unit run down a section of East Brewington Road after receiving word that a suspect from an earlier chase had been spotted. Between 20 and 25 deputies and a SLED helicopter were involved in the manhunt.
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hen I got the call to interview Knowledge Supreme Scientific two weeks ago, I didn’t know what to expect. So many claim to have shirked their criminal lifestyle only to fall back into old habits as quickly as they “find religion.” Too many manipulate others under the banner of spiritual reformation in order to get some sort of sympathy or leniency. This doesn’t appear to be the case with Knowledge, who seems to have genuinely turned his life around. I hope he keeps with it. The change in Knowledge’s life is evident to every person I spoke to through the course of writing the story. The very people who arrested or sentenced Knowledge now venerate the man for his love of others. It wasn’t until after the story ran that The Item learned through letters to the editor there are some who are not so convinced of this SEE FAITH MATTERS, PAGE A8
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