Anderson County Sheriff’s Office Makes Arrests After Investigation Of Suspicious Pacakge At Elementary School

(Seneca, SC)——The Anderson County Sheriff’s Office has made an arrest after an investigation into a suspicious package at a school in the county.

Deputies responded to Homeland Park Elementary School yesterday morning around 6:40am in regards to reports of a suspicious package.

The scene was secured by deputies until the package was rendered safe and then collected.  Further inspection revealed that the package was determined to be a lockbox.

As the investigation continued, deputies identified a male subject as being the individual who brought the lockbox onto the school’s property.  The locking box, according to a press release, contained digital devices that the subject was using the school’s power to charge.

Deputies arrested Amos Pearson and charged him with Theft of Electric Power.