CRIME & COURTS

Power, Pills And Pending Charges: The Fall of Sheriff Chuck Wright

With federal agents closing in, the Spartanburg sheriff resigned — leaving behind lawsuits, internal chaos and a political power vacuum.

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13 comments

Carol M Bishop May 27, 2025 at 7:21 am

Praying for Sheriff Chuck Wright.

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Sherri May 27, 2025 at 12:12 pm

We ALL fall short EVERY DAY! Praying for Chuck Wright and his family!

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Anonymous June 1, 2025 at 5:39 am

This is true, but we are also held accountable when we fall short every day.

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Barrel Zelenart June 17, 2025 at 4:30 pm

He always had the big head power hungry.He foold the entire county for decades and used the name of god to justify it.

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Jeff Mattox Top fan May 27, 2025 at 1:18 pm

I think the heat got a bit to much for Chucky. If I were advising him I would have suggested long ago that he first and foremost keep his big mouth shut which for the most part he did. Second I would have suggested he consider resigning and fading into the memory hole of the public mind and hope that the tangled web he has weaved is left alone and the Feds move along. This advice appears to have been taken to heart on Friday.
I hope the Feds have enough integrity to keep digging and find out the truth about the dirty deeds of the Wright criminal enterprise.
Good riddens Chucky and don’t let the door slam you in the ass on the way out.

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Sheldon Harlan Lustgarten May 30, 2025 at 5:30 pm

Chuck wrightcwas the best he cleaned up sptg scvery good hope he comes back

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Anonymous May 28, 2025 at 12:44 pm

Chuck needs to ask for forgiveness , and mean it. The final chapter for all of us is when our lord judges us, we have a 24 hour secretary keeping notes on me and every one, that’s the lord. He left us with some commands. Judge yea not least yea be judged, vengeance is mine sayeth the lord, thow shall not bear false witness,

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Anonymous June 1, 2025 at 5:40 am

So you’re saying then that no one should be held accountable for breaking the law?

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Taxpayers can judge June 12, 2025 at 12:34 am

You left out 1 Thessalonians 5:22 “Abstain from all appearance of evil.”

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Anonymous Top fan May 30, 2025 at 4:30 am

This was accurately predicted in 2020. Sadly, many were hurt by this man and his SCSO staff. The effects of their extreme wickedness will be felt for generations. The Feds need to route out the Peds that run SCSO.

Will Wright go to prison for his wickedness or will he be treated like his ped friend, former Union County sheriff David Taylor? Anyone else would already be serving a very long prison sentence. Thomas Sowell said it best: “The concept of celebrity versus the rule of law we live in, the age where fame often confers a peculiar kind of immunity, a societal star pass that allows high profile individuals to navigate legal and moral landscapes with a latitude rarely afforded to ordinary citizens.”

Wright and his accomplices in high places made themselves political celebrities. And the daft supported them.

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Anonymous May 30, 2025 at 5:14 pm

I am positive if you keep digging a long time local state representative will be next. He’s part of the good ole boys club another that dabbles in nepotism regularly, family and friends. . Keep digging

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Anonymous June 13, 2025 at 10:30 am

My ex father in law worked at Vic Bailey ford on Ezell blvd and said Vic Bailey and Chuck Wright are the biggest drug dealers in Spartanburg County

In a 19 yr relationship with someone whose brother was adopted by these so-called strong community vetted law enforced church goers that bought drugs, 90% heroine, for their adopted son
Can’t count the number of vehicles bought for that kid to slam into anyone and everywhere he wanted while drug sleeping as long as he was their narc
His adopted dad, also a former preacher, was murdered by one of his mules that they let stay in the shed and one night when the dad was home alone, the guy in the shed went in asking for $ for drugs and the guy folded that man backwards and sat straight on him killing him by breaking his back

The vetted are the most disgusting
Pocket incest sickos that adopt what they don’t want for $500 a month per kid that they never love, only use to keep the $ growing their salaries by creating CUSTOMERS for their BOOKS while at the same time creating a contact system that the morning you get out of jail a person is contacting you for HELP THEM HELP YOU $
POCKET INCEST
POCKET INCEST COWS THAT ARE NOT EVEN NATURAL AND THAT HAVE NO MEANS OF FASTING OR GETTING CLEAN BECAUSE THEY ARE JUNKIES AT THE HIGHEST DEGREE

Preachers that have helicopter landing pads at their home property
In 2017, an Inman preacher that also trained law enforcement left the church claiming his responsibilities outside of church, his INSIDE side hustle, was wearing him too thin and a young gaffney preacher took his place

Spartanburg, the only county in the state of S.C. that doesn’t report to the IRS

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Anonymous October 2, 2025 at 12:08 pm

Chuck Wright was trusted by many.He ant shit in a toilet

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