Pregnant Woman, Baby’s Father Smoked Meth: Deputies

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Stephanie Mize Lee
Stephanie Mize Lee

SOUTH CAROLINA — The Oconee County Sheriff’s Office arrested a Walhalla couple yesterday on one charge each of Unlawful Neglect of a Child.

32 year old James Morgan Underwood and 34 year old Stephanie Lee Mize were booked into the Oconee County Detention Center around 12:26pm and 12:33pm respectively by a deputy from the Warrants Division. Arrest warrants list an address for both as being Stribling Shoals Road.

On July 9th, an agent from the Narcotics Division met with an employee of the Department of Social Services in reference to both subjects and an infant child that the subjects have in common all testing positive for amphetamines and methamphetamines.

According to the arrest warrants, Underwood and Lee are each accused of smoking methamphetamine at an address on East Fairplay Boulevard in Fair Play while Lee was pregnant with their unborn child.

Underwood and Lee were released from the Detention Center yesterday on $25,000 personal recognizance bonds each.

The infant has been placed in a safe and drug free environment.

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