PC Deputies charge Boys with damaging Doodle Trail

The Pickens County Sheriff’s Office has charged three boys with damaging the split rail fencing along the Doodle Trail that runs from the City of Easley to the City of Pickens. The damages occurred over a series of incidents throughout the month of March. On the afternoon of Wednesday, April 4,

Austin Daniel Burnett of Easley and Marc Anthony Brayboy of Greenville, both 17-years-old, were charged with malicious damage to real property and placed into the Pickens County Detention Center. They were released later the same day on personal recognizance bonds of $1,000 each. A third male who is 13-years-old has also been charged with the same offenses and released to his mother pending additional court proceedings. All three subjects were together when the damages occurred and a total estimate of the damages is believed to be less than $2,000. The Pickens County Sheriff’s Office does not believe that any additional subjects were involved in these specific cases; however, anyone that may have any information about these incidents is encouraged to contact the Pickens County Sheriff’s Office at 898-5500. Pickens County Sheriff Rick Clark said, “Cases involving malicious damage or vandalism are some of the most difficult cases to solve but through the partnership and trust that we have been able to build within our communities here in Pickens County, we were able to identify the persons responsible for these incidents. Without the support and the help extended to us from the great people in our county, we may not have been able to develop the leads necessary to clear these cases by arrest.”