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🎬 THE DEVIL'S WRIGHT HAND | SNEAK PEEK
For nearly two years, @FITSNews has listened as former deputies, drug dealers and witnesses alike have come forward alleging a sprawling network of crime, corruption and cover-ups tied to the disgraced administration of former South Wright.
Once hailed as a fervent pro-Christian lawman and fierce anti-drug crusader, Wright walked out of the Spartanburg County Sheriff’s Office after 21 years as its top cop, only to walk into a federal courthouse and plead guilty to a series of public corruption charges in October 2025.
Now a convicted felon awaiting sentencing, sources continue to point to an untouched network of Carolina kingpins and out-of-state operatives previously accused of laundering millions, some of which appears to have flowed directly into Wright’s first bid for sheriff in 2004.
”I knew what I was doing," said a former deputy who claims complicity in the web. "Chuck knew what he was doing. But even the Bible says, false prophets walk amongst us."
Got a tip?
📩 andy@fitsnews.com
📬 P.O. Box 3642, Irmo, S.C. 29063
For nearly two years, @FITSNews has listened as former deputies, drug dealers and witnesses alike have come forward alleging a sprawling network of crime, corruption and cover-ups tied to the disgraced administration of former South Wright.
Once hailed as a fervent pro-Christian lawman and fierce anti-drug crusader, Wright walked out of the Spartanburg County Sheriff’s Office after 21 years as its top cop, only to walk into a federal courthouse and plead guilty to a series of public corruption charges in October 2025.
Now a convicted felon awaiting sentencing, sources continue to point to an untouched network of Carolina kingpins and out-of-state operatives previously accused of laundering millions, some of which appears to have flowed directly into Wright’s first bid for sheriff in 2004.
”I knew what I was doing," said a former deputy who claims complicity in the web. "Chuck knew what he was doing. But even the Bible says, false prophets walk amongst us."
Got a tip?
📩 andy@fitsnews.com
📬 P.O. Box 3642, Irmo, S.C. 29063
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🗳️#Crossroads2026 🔴#SCSuccession
Well, well… Republicans are having a bad night in South Carolina. FAFO. @DarlineGrahamSC (Nordone) is dragging down the entire ticket.
Well, well… Republicans are having a bad night in South Carolina. FAFO. @DarlineGrahamSC (Nordone) is dragging down the entire ticket.
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🗳️#Crossroads2026 🔴#SCSuccession
Some great shots from last night's big @AGAlanWilson rally in Cayce, S.C. courtesy of our intrepid chief photog and lead investigative reporter @RealAndyFancher.
Some great shots from last night's big @AGAlanWilson rally in Cayce, S.C. courtesy of our intrepid chief photog and lead investigative reporter @RealAndyFancher.
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“All animals are equal, but some animals are more equal than others.” 🗳️ #Midterms2026
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#ChuckWrightTapes 📽️
Our @RealAndyFancher with another installment in the Spartanburg County saga that won't quit...
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Our @RealAndyFancher with another installment in the Spartanburg County saga that won't quit...
fitsnews.com/2026/10/29/the…
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🎰 A weighty tip to @fitsnews has placed yet another video poker-tainted felon in the orbit of yet another South Carolina sheriff. Readily available Facebook posts show the former federal inmate, who once served as a deputy in that very department, praising the sheriff for “first class agency.”
Need we remind law enforcement that gambling, specifically of the video poker variety, has been illegal in the Palmetto State since 2000?
Got a tip?
📧 andy@fitsnews.com
📬 P.O. Box 3642, Irmo, S.C. 29063
Need we remind law enforcement that gambling, specifically of the video poker variety, has been illegal in the Palmetto State since 2000?
Got a tip?
📧 andy@fitsnews.com
📬 P.O. Box 3642, Irmo, S.C. 29063
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Unhinged letters sent by school kids to US service members deployed overseas.
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‼️ THE CHUCK WRIGHT TAPES, PT. III
For the past three weeks, @fitsnews has been rolling out the handful of recorded interviews the South Carolina Law Enforcement Division (#SLED) surrendered from its ill-fated probe into former Spartanburg County Sheriff Chuck Wright.
While SLED either conducted or sat in on remain withheld, with no real explanation as to why, what we’ve already released shows Wright lied to the feds about his credit card spending and that his chief deputy knew of the sheriff’s opioid abuse for years.
Our latest installment takes yet another turn. Danny Shields, who supervised the sheriff’s office civil division for roughly two decades, told agents that Wright’s cousin and federal co-defendant, Lawson “LB” Watson (#pictured), showed up, served papers and did his job for years.
Shields held that line, and then some, with SLED Special Agent Austin Mills and #FBI Special Agents Justin Newsome and Erin Carlisle. Despite Shields’ insistence, Mills later wrote in his case notes that “Danny Shields knew that Watson did not work.”
Watson, meanwhile, was sentenced to 16 months in federal prison for what prosecutors maintain was a “no-show” job scheme to keep him on the county’s insurance and payroll for decades.
For the past three weeks, @fitsnews has been rolling out the handful of recorded interviews the South Carolina Law Enforcement Division (#SLED) surrendered from its ill-fated probe into former Spartanburg County Sheriff Chuck Wright.
While SLED either conducted or sat in on remain withheld, with no real explanation as to why, what we’ve already released shows Wright lied to the feds about his credit card spending and that his chief deputy knew of the sheriff’s opioid abuse for years.
Our latest installment takes yet another turn. Danny Shields, who supervised the sheriff’s office civil division for roughly two decades, told agents that Wright’s cousin and federal co-defendant, Lawson “LB” Watson (#pictured), showed up, served papers and did his job for years.
Shields held that line, and then some, with SLED Special Agent Austin Mills and #FBI Special Agents Justin Newsome and Erin Carlisle. Despite Shields’ insistence, Mills later wrote in his case notes that “Danny Shields knew that Watson did not work.”
Watson, meanwhile, was sentenced to 16 months in federal prison for what prosecutors maintain was a “no-show” job scheme to keep him on the county’s insurance and payroll for decades.
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Andrew Fancher retweeted
🔎 #ChuckWright
Mainstream media thinks this story is over... this story is just beginning.
Our @RealAndyFancher is still digging... searching for the accountability prosecutors left on the vine as they selectively prosecuted one of the most powerful lawmen in South Carolina history.
(cc: @TGowdySC)
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Mainstream media thinks this story is over... this story is just beginning.
Our @RealAndyFancher is still digging... searching for the accountability prosecutors left on the vine as they selectively prosecuted one of the most powerful lawmen in South Carolina history.
(cc: @TGowdySC)
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‼️ LIES, LEADS & LOOSE ENDS: THE CHUCK WRIGHT TAPES
With former Spartanburg County Sheriff Chuck Wright now behind bars, @FITSNews has obtained nearly 14 hours of never-before-heard interviews conducted during the multi-agency probe that netted three federal convictions and zero stated through #FOIA, the case-file tapes feature then-Sheriff Wright himself, his unindicted Norco 10 supplier, then-county councilman David Britt and a host of sheriff's office personnel who offer wildly inconsistent accounts of "no-show" employee LB Watson.
"The whole thing is sickening," said a multi-decade sheriff's office veteran familiar with the case. "I'm ashamed to tell people I used to work there… The only thing I can say now is burn the whole house down."
🎧 Case-file playlist attached.
With former Spartanburg County Sheriff Chuck Wright now behind bars, @FITSNews has obtained nearly 14 hours of never-before-heard interviews conducted during the multi-agency probe that netted three federal convictions and zero stated through #FOIA, the case-file tapes feature then-Sheriff Wright himself, his unindicted Norco 10 supplier, then-county councilman David Britt and a host of sheriff's office personnel who offer wildly inconsistent accounts of "no-show" employee LB Watson.
"The whole thing is sickening," said a multi-decade sheriff's office veteran familiar with the case. "I'm ashamed to tell people I used to work there… The only thing I can say now is burn the whole house down."
🎧 Case-file playlist attached.
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‼️ UPSTATE FIRE CAPTAIN ARRESTED FOR SEXUAL EXPLOITATION OF A MINOR
A fire captain for the City of Clinton, South Carolina, is facing a single felony count of second-degree sexual exploitation of a minor, according to booking records.
While the charge offers the only glimpse im, city officials tell @FITSNews that Glenn "Will" Sickles IV, 34, was terminated within hours of his arrest Friday.
Now without his helmet, the veteran captain becomes the second Upstate firefighter to lose his job amid child sex crime charges this month.
On Sept. 2, both the Mayo and Hilltop fire departments suspended Joshua "Tiny" Nichols after FITSNews exclusively reported on his out-of-state child molestation and incest charges.
A fire captain for the City of Clinton, South Carolina, is facing a single felony count of second-degree sexual exploitation of a minor, according to booking records.
While the charge offers the only glimpse im, city officials tell @FITSNews that Glenn "Will" Sickles IV, 34, was terminated within hours of his arrest Friday.
Now without his helmet, the veteran captain becomes the second Upstate firefighter to lose his job amid child sex crime charges this month.
On Sept. 2, both the Mayo and Hilltop fire departments suspended Joshua "Tiny" Nichols after FITSNews exclusively reported on his out-of-state child molestation and incest charges.
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