S. Carolina sheriff ordered to pay $200K for wrongful arrest

LEXINGTON, S.C. (AP) — The sheriff’s department of Lexington County, South Carolina, has been ordered to pay $200,000 to a woman wrongfully arrested and charged with shoplifting from an area Walmart.
The State reports a jury ruled that former Deputy Darren Wiseman violated Sabrina Jackson’s civil rights in 2014 when he charged her with a crime she didn’t commit. Jackson sued over the arrest in 2016. Wiseman resigned this year.
Her lawsuit says a Walmart manager told autho