SLED arrests DHHS employee in connection with data breach

COLUMBIA, SC (WIS) - The personal information of more than 228,000 Medicaid recipients in South Carolina has been stolen by a former state Department of Health and Human Services employee, according to DHHS and the State Law Enforcement Division.

SLED says 36-year-old Christopher Lykes was able to make off with 228,435 Medicaid recipients' personal information by emailing the information to his personal Yahoo email account.

The information contained names, addresses, and Social Security numbers -- information the employee had access to and the agency trusted him with.

Most of the people impacted by the security breach live in Richland, Lexington, Barnwell, Orangeburg, Allendale, and Bamberg counties.

Lykes has been charged with five counts of Medically Indigent Act Confidentiality violations and one count of disclosure of confidential information.


Probe of 1979 disappearance leads to NYC basement

NEW YORK (AP) — A team of police officers and FBI agents began digging up a basement in New York City on Thursday as part of a decades-old investigation into the disappearance of 6-year-old Etan Patz, whose case made a generation of parents afraid to send their children out alone.

Etan vanished without a trace in 1979 after leaving his family's Manhattan apartment for a short walk to catch a school bus. It was the first time his parents had let him go off to school alone.

Marvin Washington Jr., South Carolina McDonald's employee, arrested for spitting in customers' drink

 

(CBS/AP/WLTX) SIMPSONVILLE, S.C. - South Carolina county deputies say a McDonald's employee was arrested after he spit in two customers' cups of iced tea after the drinks were returned because they weren't sweet enough.

According to police, 19-year-old Marvin Washington Jr. was arrested Wednesday and charged with malicious tampering with food.

CBS affiliate WLTX reports on April 14, a mother and daughter ordered sweet tea from the drive-thru of the McDonalds.

The woman claimed it wasn't sweet, so they asked for new drinks. Authorities say the two then discovered a large deposit of phlegm when they removed the lids of the drink to add more sugar because the second round of beverages still weren't sweet enough.

The alleged victims then called law enforcement.

Greenville County investigators say surveillance video caught Washington leaning over the cups before he filled them Saturday at the restaurant.

The McDonald's owner says he follows strict food safety procedures and asks people not to reach conclusions until all of the facts come out.