MONCKS CORNER, SC – Newly elected Berkeley County Sheriff Duane Lewis will officially be sworn into office tomorrow afternoon inside the Berkeley County Courthouse.
The Honorable Kristi Lea Harrington, a resident Circuit Court Judge of the 9th Judicial Circuit, is scheduled to administer the oath of office.
On Tuesday Berkeley County voters elected its newest sheriff.
Republican candidate Duane Lewis walked away with 46.88% of the vote while Democratic candidate Anthony Smalls received 19.76%.
The race also attracted several attracted several write-in candidates, too, including former trooper Derrick Burbage and Melvin “M.C.” Bellew.
A group known as ‘The Concerned Voters of Berkeley County’ also aggressively campaigned for former sheriff candidate and North Charleston police officer Brian Adams as a write-in candidate.
In the end, write-ins received only 33.36% of the vote.
The special election came after longtime sheriff Wayne DeWitt resigned from office in February 2015 following his arrest for DUI and fleeing from police. A grand jury indicted him on the charges a few weeks later.
Lewis if the former chief deputy of law enforcement at Santee Cooper.
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