Seneca Woman charged in Recent Burglaries

Officers with the Seneca Police Department have arrested and charged a woman in connection to recent burglaries in the area.  Seneca Police incarcerated 47-year-old Laverne Lawrence on 11 criminal charges including larceny, burglary, safe cracking, possession of drug paraphernalia, giving false information to law enforcement and malicious injury to personal property.  She is suspected of stealing from the Seneca Church of God of Prophecy on Overbrook Drive and Faith Tabernacle Church on Jones Avenue. Lawrence was also charged with theft at a home on East South Second Street, where 30 pills of medication were stolen.  Lawrence was booked on the eleven charges at the Oconee County Detention Center in Walhalla.