Deputy Charles Allen Browder III was involved in the controversial 2019 arrest of Georgia Southern quarterback Shai Werts, where he misidentified bird droppings on Werts’ car as cocaine. Prior to his tenure at Saluda County, Browder was terminated from the Lexington County Sheriff’s Office in December 2017 for ‘conduct unbecoming of an officer.’ This included using inappropriate language during a domestic dispute response and engaging in an inappropriate relationship with an underage girl he met during a runaway investigation. Browder resigned from the Saluda County Sheriff’s Office in January 2020 after these past incidents came to light.
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