March 10, 2013

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I-95 team makes big stops Sumter deputies arrest 5, uncover guns, cash, $10K in drugs BY BRISTOW MARCHANT bmarchant@theitem.com

5 years later, Rembert handyman still missing BY BRISTOW MARCHANT bmarchant@theitem.com Reggie Harley was fortunate to survive a car crash that totaled the vehicle and injured two of his friends. But walking away from that wreck was the last thing anyone ever saw Harley do. Since that night more than five years ago, no one has seen or heard from the Rembert handyman, who seemingly vanished into thin air. Harley’s aunt Elease Sumpter, HARLEY who he occasionally stayed with in her small country house near the Kershaw County line, reported her nephew missing shortly after the wreck in the early morning hours of Jan. 12, 2008. “He called me that Thursday or Friday and said he was going to come up here that weekend, and he never came,” she remembers. “Then when I came home from church that Sunday, one of his friends came and said had I seen him. He said there was a wreck, and nobody had seen him since.” The disappearance of James Reginald Harley is a strange story that left law enforcement

Five people were arrested this week in two separate stops on Interstate 95 and are now in jail facing drug and gun charges. Joshua Anthony Edwards, 23, of 315 Quail Ridge Road; Nicholas Cole Flanagan, 24, of 458 Hunting Green Drive; and Donovan Way Jackson, 24, of 304 Little Rabbit Way, all of Jacksonville, N.C., were arrested Thursday and charged with trafficking cocaine, unlawful carrying of a pistol, possession of a stolen firearm, possession of a firearm during the commission

of a violent crime and possession of marijuana. The next day, Julianne Caruso, 22, of 66 Madison Ave., Everett, Mass., and Alexjandro Salmanca, 26, of 41 Yale St., Medford, Mass., were arrested for possession with intent to distribute marijuana and possession of drug paraphernalia. Both sets of arrests resulted from traffic stops conducted by the I-95 Interdiction Team of the Sumter County Sheriff’s Office. At 2:52 p.m. Thursday, a car driven by Flanagan was stopped near mile marker SEE I-95 STOPS, PAGE A8

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These weapons, drugs and other evidence were seized from a car stopped by Sumter County sheriff’s deputies on Interstate 95 on Thursday.

Wild Game Night at First Baptist Church of Sumter Hugh McLaurin of Elloree, from Big Lake Outdoor Products, shows a turkey call to Kyle Puckett and Joseph McIntosh, 9, during First Baptist Church of Sumter’s Wild Game Night on Friday at the church. The event featured outdoor demonstrations in fishing and hunting as well as a dinner featuring venison, wild boar, raccoon, squirrel, quail and wild turkey.

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Cancer survivors say support from family, friends truly helpful BY RANDY BURNS Special to The Item BISHOPVILLE — The diagnosis and treatment of cancer takes a heavy toll on victims and families. But family and friends can play an essential role in helping a

victim make it through the diagnosis and treatment, survivors say. Hampton Rembert, 75, was diagnosed with prostate cancer and oral cancer in 1998. “Fifteen years ago not too many people were talking about

cancer,” he said. The Lee County Cancer Support Group, organized by Barbara Simon of CareSouth, was not established until 2004. Rembert said he depended upon an extended group of family and friends, which in-

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cluded the people of his home church, Unionville AME Church. Rembert’s treatment included radiation and surgery. The surgery was necessary to treat the oral cancer, which had invaded his tongue, mouth and throat.

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“The doctors had to take out the back of my tongue,” Rembert said. “And after the surgery, I remember the doctor telling me that I wouldn’t be able to talk. I told him I sang in the choir at Unionville. He told me to forget about

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that. I would never be able to sing.” Fifteen years later, Rembert is still a member in good standing on the choir of Unionville. “I never lost my speech,” Rembert said. SEE SURVIVORS, PAGE A4

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