The Associated Press
COLUMBIA, S.C. — State agents have a beef with two prison officers — they say the pair stole a cow from a prison farm.
Robert Kent Summersett, 58, of Rembert, and Carl Ray Watford Jr., 55, of Timmonsville, have been charged with larceny of livestock, according to warrants issued Tuesday by the State Law Enforcement Division.
The officers took the beef cow valued at less then $1,000 from a prison farm at the Wateree Correctional Institution in Sumter County, where they both work, according to the warrants.
The prison provides inmate labor for the Corrections Department’s 7,000-acre farm, which also has a dairy, egg-laying and beef cattle operations, according to the department’s Web site.
Neither man has a prior criminal record in South Carolina, according to records maintained by SLED.
Calls to the jail in Sumter County were not answered after business hours Tuesday.