South Carolina prosecutors filed new charges Thursday against a 19-year-old who was sentenced to probation just last month after a plea deal designed to allow him to avoid jail and the sex offender registry in the wake of multiple allegations of sex assaults, court records show.
Orangeburg County deputies arrested Bowen Turner early Monday morning on disorderly conduct and probation violation charges after he allegedly stumbled drunk into the middle of a road, lied to a deputy and — while being booked into the county jail — allegedly protested the facility’s COVID-19 protocols and told a deputy, “If you try to put that mask on me, I will bite your f—ing finger off.”
Thursday’s charges, of threatening a public employee and purchasing alcohol as a minor, appear connected to the same incident, which happened almost a month to the day after Circuit Judge Markley Dennis sentenced him to 5 years of probation under the Youthful Offender Act and gave him a chance to stay out of trouble.

















