The face of one of South Carolina’s up-and-coming personal injury practices is in a bit of a legal bind himself this week …
Jerod Frazier – who runs the South Carolina Injury Solutions law firm in Charleston, S.C. – was arrested this week by Charleston County sheriff’s deputies. The 41-year-old attorney was charged with possession of cocaine, simple possession of marijuana and possession of drug paraphernalia.
A former associate of prominent Lowcountry lawyer David Aylor, Frazier recently branched out to form his own practice.
“He was on the rise,” a source familiar with the situation told us. “He left Aylor’s office and looked like he could become one of the big personal injury players in the state.”
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Speaking of the rights of others, this isn’t Frazier’s first brush with the law …
In 2007, while working for the Mount Pleasant, S.C. police department, Frazier was arrested and charged with assault with intent to kill after allegedly pointing a gun at a 19-year-old woman with whom he had been having an affair and demanded she get an abortion.
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