Cameron Busted Arrest Records
Cameron is the county's only other incorporated town besides St. Matthews. The 2020 Census counted 376 residents, per the county comprehensive plan. The South Carolina Department of Public Safety lists the Cameron Police Department as agency 0901, separate from the Calhoun County Sheriff's Office and the St. Matthews Police Department. That distinction matters. Cameron PD may have written the event report even when the sheriff or a state agency handled a different arrest.
Each paper trail answers a different question. For the report itself, call the arresting agency first. The Orangeburg-Calhoun Regional Detention Center handles local custody, while Calhoun court records track the case after booking. There is no official Cameron arrest blotter, daily bulletin, public roster, or online booking-photo feed. Charges listed at booking can shrink or vanish entirely as a case moves through court.
Important. A booking or arrest report only shows what police wrote down, so confirm the final case result with the court.
Cameron Busted Mugshot Sources
With no public booking display in town, official sources come first. The Town's contact route can help steer a focused records request, though it does not create an online log. Someone possibly still held locally falls under the regional detention center's custody route. A person out of local custody may need a written request to whichever agency holds the record. A state-prison sentence puts someone in an entirely different system.
The table sorts each source by the question it can actually answer. It promises neither a photograph nor any particular field. No public Calhoun or Cameron roster exists, so no search fields, update schedule, or photo-release rule could be confirmed for one.
| Channel | Record or custody role | Verified access route |
|---|---|---|
| Cameron Police Department | Arrest-report custodian when its officers handled the event | Request routing through Town Hall or the Town Clerk; no public log or photo display was found. |
| Orangeburg-Calhoun Regional Detention Center | Current local custody and its own booking-record process | Call to confirm the current public-information process. No public Calhoun roster link was verified. |
| Calhoun County Sheriff’s Office | County law-enforcement routing and reports it created | Use its information line when the arresting agency is uncertain. It is not a Cameron record-custodian substitute. |
| Calhoun court route | Case events and final disposition after booking | Search by matching name or case number through the Judicial Branch’s Calhoun route. |
| South Carolina Department of Corrections | Current sentenced state-prison custody, not county detention | Its locator can show public information and photographs for qualifying current SCDC custody. |
| ABC Columbia’s Calhoun archive | Event-based local news, often attributed to an agency | Secondary source only. It is not a Cameron booking feed or custody confirmation. |
| Mugshots.com Calhoun page | Unofficial historical listings that identify both towns | Its displayed Calhoun dates run from 2011 through 2013. It is stale and never a current Cameron roster. |
Note: News stories and third-party listings can be outdated or tied to a different custody stage, so verify any find with the originating office.
Busted in Cameron: Custody Lookup
Start any recent-arrest search with the agency question. Was it Cameron Police, the sheriff, or someone else? Once you know, ask that office about the report. For current local custody, Calhoun County's directory points to the Orangeburg-Calhoun Regional Detention Center at 1520 Ellis Avenue in Orangeburg. The county directory lists 803-531-4658, and Orangeburg County's detention FAQ lists 803-539-2091. Call either number to confirm the current process.
The center answers custody-status questions, not photo requests. It works best for someone held now or booked recently. Keep in mind that a release ends local custody but leaves whatever record exists in place. The full county picture, including how local custody, court records, and SCDC custody differ, is laid out in the Calhoun County booking-record lookup.
- Gather the person’s full legal name and an approximate arrest or booking date.
- Ask the arresting agency whether it created the report and who holds the responsive record.
- Call the regional detention center for a current local-custody question and ask about its record-request process.
- Use the Calhoun court route for a case number, hearings, or disposition after booking.
Cameron Police Record Requests
No Cameron-specific request form, fee schedule, or turnaround time is published. A focused written request routed through Town Hall or the Town Clerk covers reports, releasable booking-photo records, and fee estimates. Include the full legal name, approximate arrest date, arresting agency, incident or case number if known, and the exact record you want. That detail helps the Town forward the request to the right office.
South Carolina's general FOIA framework allows 10 business days for a determination on newer records, plus ordinarily 30 calendar days for production once access is granted. Older records and deposit conditions can shift that timeline. These are statewide rules, not a promise of Cameron's response speed. If Cameron PD did not make the arrest, direct the request to the agency that did. The sheriff's office can help with county routing, but it cannot replace Cameron's own custodian.
Town of Cameron and Cameron Police Department
Start at Town Hall. The Town Clerk handles police record requests there. The office sits at 204 Boyce Lawton Drive in Cameron, SC 29030-9512. Mail works too. Use P.O. Box 672, Cameron, SC 29030-0672. The phone number is 803-823-2145. Hours are limited, so plan ahead. Town Hall opens Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, and Friday from 9 a.m. to 4 p.m.
The Municipal Association of South Carolina's Cameron profile names Chief Daniel E. Stroman and Clerk/Treasurer Felicia W. Ellis. The South Carolina Criminal Justice Academy listing separately confirms the department's mailing address and phone number. Ask for a cost estimate before copies are run, since no Cameron fee schedule is published.
Cameron Booking Records After Custody
A Cameron arrest becomes a booking record once the person reaches the holding facility. Fingerprinting, photographs, and basic identity details go into that administrative file. It is not the same thing as a police incident report. The regional detention center handles current custody questions and can walk callers through its own procedures. For the incident report itself, ask the agency that created it. That paperwork may sit with the originating office rather than the jail.
Once a case lands in court, the trail shifts. The Calhoun Clerk and the Judicial Branch route track hearings, bonds, and final outcomes. That outcome, called the disposition, might be a dismissal, a plea, or a verdict, and it settles what a booked charge actually became. For someone serving time in a state prison, the SCDC locator covers that separate custody layer. It will not show local holds or people already released.
- Booking record
- A custody or intake record associated with detention, which may be held separately from the arrest report.
- Current local custody
- A live detention question for the regional center, rather than proof of a later case outcome.
- Disposition
- The court’s recorded outcome, which can differ from the initial charge at booking.
Cameron Busted News Limits
No dependable Cameron-only source for busted news exists. ABC Columbia's Calhoun archive does carry Cameron stories, credited to the sheriff's office or other agencies. That is event reporting, though, not a Cameron Police Department booking feed. A story can still help you pin down an agency, a date, or a case number. It cannot tell you whether someone remains in custody. Match the details carefully, then go back to the arresting office, the detention center, or the court record for anything solid.
The old Mugshots.com Calhoun section has its own limits. It lists both Cameron and St. Matthews. However, its Calhoun arrest dates stop in 2013, which makes it a historical curiosity rather than a current feed. No booking photo from it appears on this site. The county's Arrest News page maps the wider Calhoun media landscape and the official record path that should follow any report.
Cameron Two-Town Booking Route
Calhoun County has exactly two incorporated towns, not three: St. Matthews and Cameron. The county population chapter documents that limited municipal map. Cameron's small size does not fold its records into a generic county site or a neighbor's database. It just means the search starts with whichever agency handled the event, then moves outward to the right regional, county, court, or state custodian.
Geography shapes the route. Detention happens across the county line in Orangeburg, the sheriff's administrative office sits in St. Matthews, and the city agency works out of Cameron. That split is why a current-custody phone call and a records request answer two different questions. The Calhoun County population chapter confirms the two-town structure, and the Orangeburg detention FAQ supplies the alternate detention contact. Confirm the responsible office before sending anything.
The same route explains why a dead-end town search is never a final answer. A person might be in local detention, already released, named in a filed court case, or serving a state sentence, and each stage lives with a different official source. When a Cameron record is not online, hand the custodian enough detail to locate the actual file instead of assuming a missing city page means the record does not exist.