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Jay King, Hometown News 
With the arrest last week of Spartanburg County Clerk of Court Marc Kitchens on charges that he and an accomplice, Woodruff businessman Terry Lanford, sold narcotics taken from the evidence locker at the county courthouse, area law enforcement agencies are evaluating the procedures they have in place to ensure evidence remains secure.
Spartanburg County Sheriff Chuck Wright said that Kitchens’ arrest was like a “punch in the gut” and represented a horrendous betrayal of all the hard work and danger law officers went through to get drugs off the streets. He also said it angered him that Kitchens’ bad choices called into question the integrity of the evidence security measures of his and other local law enforcement agencies.
“It really angers me that I have to differentiate that my evidence room is not the same as the one Mr. Kitchens had access to,” Wright said. “My evidence room doesn’t have anything to do with his evidence locker…they’re at least three miles apart.”
The sheriff expressed hurt, outrage and a great deal of frustration that someone charged with the public trust of keeping court evidence secure would betray that trust and engage in a scheme that would put drugs back on the streets.
For the rest of the story, see this week’s Middle Tyger Times.
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