Seneca Man arrested on Multiple Charges

The Oconee County Sheriff’s Office arrested a Seneca man over the Christmas holidays on multiple charges, including assault and battery of a high and aggravated nature. Oconee County Sheriff’s Office Public Information Officer Jimmy Watt reports, “30-year-old Cody Brandon Herring of Stoney Road was booked into the Oconee County Detention Center around 2:58am on Saturday, Dec. 23. Herring was also charged with one count each of assault and battery in the third degree, assault on a police officer while resisting arrest and malicious injury to real property. A deputy responded to an address on North Pond Fork Road in the Westminster area the afternoon of Friday, Dec. 22, in regards to a disturbance in which Herring had reportedly assaulted a former family member of his and a 16-year-old male. After the initial altercation took place and the suspect was outside, Herring then made entry into the residence via a window and a door. The victims heard glass breaking and Herring then damaged a door to a room of the residence where the family was located. Herring left the residence and was located by the responding deputies. Herring refused officer commands and kept his hands in his pockets. Herring was eventually taken into custody but deputies had to deploy their Taser’s due to Herring’s resistance and not producing his hands as deputies tried to place handcuffs on him. Deputies returned to the residence where they continued their investigation and also observed the damage inside the home. Paramedics arrived on the scene to check the victims as well as Herring. In the process of being checked, Herring charged at one of the deputies after jumping out of a patrol vehicle. Herring was secured back in the patrol vehicle but continued to be combative. Herring was then transported to the Oconee County Detention Center.” At this time, Herring remains in custody at the Oconee County Detention Center on a combined $65,000 surety bond. Herring will also be required to wear an electronic monitoring device upon release as a condition of bond.