(Columbia, SC) Having a different state of residence offered no protection for a Macon, GA
man arrested following a business deal gone awry.
South
Carolina Forestry Commission agents say Casey Green failed to pay a subcontractor for planting trees on 605 acres he was overseeing
for a client. According to the warrant, Green received more than
$19,000 from a landowner to manage the reforestation of his land in Florence
Co.
Mr. Greene
failed to pay when the work was completed. He owes the subcontractor more
than $17,000.00.
Bibb
County, GA sheriff's deputies arrested Green in Georgia on 12/26/12 on the SC Forestry Commission's behalf. Our law
enforcement personnel subsequently extradited him to South Carolina on 1/3/13.
Mr. Green is
currently out on bond awaiting trial. He faces a maximum of ten years in
jail and court-imposed fines, if convicted of the felony charge.
In South Carolina, forestry
and timber crimes are actively investigated and the laws are rigorously
enforced. Forest-related businesses impact the South
Carolina economy by $17 billion annually and keep about 90,000 South Carolinians employed at above-average wages.
Most our
state's 13+ million acres of forestland is privately-owned, often by SC
families who live on their forests.
Georgia authorities and landowners similarly
value their forest resource and often cooperate with South Carolina in protecting this vital
component of both states' economies.
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