Prison officers stole cow, warrants say
Two prison officers are accused of stealing a cow from a prison farm.
Robert Kent Summersett, 58, of Rembert, and Carl Ray Watford Jr., 55, of Timmonsville, have been charged with larceny of livestock, according to warrants issued Tuesday by the State Law Enforcement Division.
The officers took the beef cow valued at less than $1,000 from a prison farm at the Wateree Correctional Institution in Sumter County, where they both work, according to the warrants.
The prison provides inmate labor for the Corrections Department’s 7,000-acre farm, which also has a dairy, egg-laying and beef cattle operations, according to the department’s Web site.
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