Prosecutors in the office of U.S. attorney Adair Ford Boroughs announced federal charges against more than a dozen defendants in connection with a Lowcountry, South Carolina drug ring this week.
Several of those indicted on Friday (March 22, 2024) were members of the Walterboro, S.C.-based “Cowboys” gang – a criminal organization with ties to a drug network which once involved Alex Murdaugh, the former solicitor/ disgraced lawyer/ convicted killer whose true crime and corruption saga captivated global audiences.
The Cowboys first made news in the fall of 2021 and made a brief reappearance in the summer of 2022 when prosecutors in the office of S.C. attorney general Alan Wilson accused two alleged members of the gang of being “downstream beneficiaries” of Murdaugh’s alleged theft from his clients, friends, and former law partners.
Murdaugh’s larger drug connections have yet to be fully unearthed …
According to the U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ), the Cowboys often post “threats, firearms, large amounts of cash, and what (are) purported to be narcotics on Facebook and YouTube.” And according to our sources in Walterboro, they remain very much active in the drug trade throughout the Palmetto Lowcountry.
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