MONCKS CORNER, S.C. – Moncks Corner Police Chief Rick Ollic has been suspended for two weeks.
Captain Mark Fields told ABC News 4 that he is temporarily serving in Ollic’s role for the duration of the suspension.
He was suspended Tuesday, Mark Peper, the attorney who represents the family of a student who said she was sexually assaulted by 50-year-old Zedrick Maurice Smalls, told Live 5 News.
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Agents with the South Carolina Law Enforcement arrested Smalls, a former MCPD school resource officer, on Monday, June 14. Ollic’s suspension came eight days later.
South Carolina Law Enforcement Division spokesman Tommy Crosby told multiple news outlets that his agency is not investigating Ollic in connection with the Smalls case.
Moncks Corner town officials are not commenting on Ollic’s suspension.
Ollic has served as the town’s police chief since 2016. Prior to that, he ran unsuccessfully as Berkeley County sheriff, losing to the current sheriff, Duane Lewis. He spent more than 25 years working at the Berkeley County Sheriff’s Office before making the switch to the Moncks Corner Police Department.
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- Interim Sheriff Rick Ollic issues statement following Wayne DeWitt’s resignation
- Moncks Corner’s New Police Chief Sets Goals, Works for “the Common Good of Others” in First Month
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