State law enforcement and insurance companies have noticed that criminals are now staging fake medical claims and phony car crashes ...

SLED agents who work these cases routinely find drugs and guns and money,” Keel said. “It exists in the shadows,” Keel said.

Chief Mark Keel of the South Carolina Law Enforcement Division said Monday that SLED agents and local law enforcement served 10 search warrants in Dillon and Marion counties on April 2.

SLED Chief Mark Keel said his agents served 10 search warrants in Dillon and Marion Counties over two days last Wednesday. “During the saerches, SLED arrested 11 people who face charges of criminal ...

In 2018, Keel announced that SLED was canceling its marijuana certification and testing programs because it “cannot differentiate between industrial hemp and marijuana,” according to the lawsuit.

Bond was denied at a hearing for suspect charged in the death of a Barnwell teen and her unborn child on Tuesday, here’s what ...

It took SLED Chief Mark Keel years to get $54 million for the agency’s new ultra modern crime lab, which is four stories high and longer than a football field.

Millard Cate was hired in 1947 to be SLED’s first one-man crime lab operator. His portrait hangs in SLED’s new crime lab. With technologies that SLED’s first crime lab agent Cate could never have ...

ST. GEORGE — After SLED agents busted a Lowcountry farmer and destroyed his hemp crop, the deadline is here for Chief Mark Keel to turn over information regarding his agency's conduct.

State Law Enforcement Division Chief Mark Keel speaks during a funeral for police K-9 Rico, who was killed last week while tracking a suspect. SLED agents who spoke at the funeral say Rico’s ...