SC mayor, 2 others had their cars tracked. Ex-police chief, town official arrested
The former police chief and current administrator of the town of Great Falls in South Carolina have been arrested putting trackers on the private cars of the mayor, a town council member and a third person, according to state police and arrest warrants.
State Law Enforcement Division agents charged Joshua Ray Glenn, 44, and Kimberly Deane Benenhaley, 41, Thursday.
Glenn, whom arrest warrants say lives in Tega Cay in York County, is the town administrator in Great Falls, a Chester County town of around 2,000 people along the Catawba River between Rock Hill and Columbia.
Benenhaley, of Lugoff in Kershaw County, is the former Great Falls chief of police.
Each faces charges of misconduct in office, conspiracy, and three counts of first-degree harassment, according to a SLED statement and a post released on SLED’s Facebook social media.
Warrants: Former police chief admitted to scheme started in May
The Chester County Sheriff and Great Falls police requested SLED investigate after trackers were put on three private cars in May “without authorization or proper legal process,” according to police and court records. The trackers were paid for by a town credit card assigned to Glenn, according to the arrest warrants.
Benenhaley told SLED agents that she was the police chief when she performed surveillance and tracked the cars with Glenn, according to allegations in the warrants against Benenhaley.
Two trackers were discovered in October and then the third was found this month, according to arrest warrants in the case.
The victims are identified in the misconduct and conspiracy warrants as “private vehicles of a Great Falls town council member, the mayor of Great Falls, and a relative of a former elected official,” according to arrest warrants provided to The Herald by the S.C. Attorney General’s Office, which is prosecuting the case.
The harassment warrants name Keevi Worthy and Tiffany Craig as two of the victims. The town’s website identifies Worthy as the Great Falls mayor and Craig as a member of town council.
Chester County’s past convictions: Former sheriff and supervisor
The charges of public officials in Chester County come after both the former sheriff and county supervisor went to prison in recent years. Chester County is mainly rural with around 32,000 people in it
The former sheriff, George Alexander “Alex” Underwood, spent around four years in federal prison after he was convicted in a 2021 trial in Columbia.
A federal jury convicted him of conspiracy to commit wire fraud, deprivation of rights, falsifying records and federal program theft. Underwood, sheriff from 2013 until he was indicted in 2019, was convicted of using deputies to work on a man cave at his personal property, and taking money that was supposed to be used for DUI checkpoints.
Underwood later pleaded guilty to similar state charges. He was released from federal prison early this year. Two of his top deputies were also convicted of federal charges in the same 2021 trial.
Former Chester County Supervisor Kenneth “Shane” Stuart is still in a South Carolina prison after pleading guilty in 2024 to dealing drugs and misconduct while the county’s top elected official. Stuart was arrested in 2020.
