Police and Fire

The Greer Police Department held its annual awards banquet on Friday to recognize employee accomplishments and work ethic during 2022. Chief Matt Hamby awarded four employees for their outstanding performance and character shown last year.

Rachel Emily Redding, 19, died on Monday in a two-vehicle collision in Greer.

According to the Greenville County Coroner’s Office (GCCO), GCCO responded to 1116 Hudson Road for the collision, which occurred while one vehicle, traveling at a high rate of speed, crossed the center line and struck a second vehicle head on.

(Note: All information contained in the following was taken directly from the official incident reports filed by the City of Greer Police Department. All suspects are to be considered innocent until proven guilty in the court of law.)

A Greer man has been sentenced to 17 and 1/2 years in prison for drug offenses, a gun offense, and a probation violation.

A Greenville man has been sentenced to 25 years in prison for an armed robbery at a convenience store in Spartanburg County on October 11, 2021.

At 7:40 a.m. on Friday, Tyger River Fire Department was dispatched to a new school construction site regarding a man who had fallen down a storm drain.

At the construction site at Pine Ridge Road and Highway 29 in Lyman, Captain Major Lee said workers were putting in storm drains, and a man had fallen 25 feet down one of them.

(Note: All information contained in the following was taken directly from the official incident reports filed by the City of Greer Police Department. All suspects are to be considered innocent until proven guilty in the court of law.)
 
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