Dateline show following “Las Senoritas” cases

A major TV network deployed cameras and personnel recently to the Oconee Courthouse for proceedings to follow developments in the state’s cases against multiple defendants arrested in methamphetamine trafficking investigation called “Las Senoritas.”   The videos shot February 1 in the fourth floor courtroom at Walhalla lead Oconee court officers to believe that, at some point, they’ll be part of an NBC Dateline program which airs locally on Friday nights.  After the state grand jury issued indictments, agents from the state Law Enforcement Division began arresting targets in an investigation of drug trafficking in Oconee, Anderson, Pickens, Greenville, and Laurens counties.  A 101.7/WGOG NEWS source says most of the defendants who stood before Judge Sprouse pleaded guilty or requested jury trials. Most of them brought before the judge that day, we are told, were defendants with Pickens County addresses.  According to the office of the South Carolina Attorney’s General, the “Senoritas” allegedly coordinated with state inmates through contraband cell phones to have drugs, primarily meth, delivered to co-conspirators across the Upstate.  Those co-conspirators are alleged to have driven to Atlanta or other locations to pick up kilos of meth, bring the meth to South Carolina, and distribute in the Upstate.