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MOUNT PLEASANT, S.C. (WCIV) — Mount Pleasant leaders are attempting to limit loud noises throughout the town.

On Tuesday night, the town council passed an ordinance to begin a 90 day trial of a noise ordinance. However, no fines will be issued during the 90-day testing period.

The town is limiting noise to 55 decibels max.

"By setting a limit, it allows us to at least say and give restaurants that play live music a grade on what they are allowed and not allowed to do," said John Iacofano of the Mount Pleasant Town Council.

Iacofano said he thinks the ordinance will be good to collect data on how loud some areas may be. He said he went to Shem Creek to test the noise.

"I went to a restaurant that had live music. The noise was between 75 to 85 decibels, and I was okay with that. That was at the edge of the property itself. I didn't know what it was at homes in Shem Creek, but I think 55 is tight," said Iacofano.

Jeremy Cundiff is the general manager at Red's Ice House. He said if the ordinance becomes permanent, it will affect their business.

"If we don't have live music, that will impact a lot of people on the creek. Then I'm worried that will drive them downtown or elsewhere outside of Mount Pleasant," said Cundiff.

Cundiff said now is the restaurant's busy season with summer fast approaching and tourists coming into town. He said they are always respectful to their neighbors when it comes to loud noise.

"I walk around when we have bands with a decibel reader and try to make sure it's a reasonable limit from the edges of our property. I don't go over 75 decibels," said Cundiff.

Cundiff said he does not know where this ordinance came from since they generally don't receive complaints.

"I feel like it's been several years since we had multiple complaints. I think we had one recently, but it was for a special event that we don't often have," he said.

There are limitations to the ordinance including emergency vehicles, special events, parades, and construction or repair sound.

No fines will be given during the pilot ordinance. It will begin on May 1st.

Monroe Freeling, one of the top offensive tackle prospects in the class of 2023, is narrowing things down in his recruitment. Freeling, who has 25 scholarship offers, shared his top 7 teams on Friday.

The Mount Pleasant, South Carolina native and Oceanside Collegiate Academy product has Florida and Georgia in his top group, along with Clemson, Miami, Michigan, Notre Dame and Ohio State.

BREAKING: Four-Star OT Monroe Freeling is down to 7?? Schools, he tells @On3Recruits

The 6’7 290 OT from Mount Pleasant, SC is ranked as a Top 40 Player in the ‘23 Class (No. 5 OT)

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— Hayes Fawcett (@Hayesfawcett3) May 6, 2022

Freeling has also taken visits to South Carolina, North Carolina and Stanford. He told On3’s Hayes Fawcett that he approves of UGA adding former UNC assistant Stacy Searels to Kirby Smart’s staff.

“They were one of the first schools to offer me back at the beginning of my sophomore year,” Freeling told On3. “Though they have gone through coaching changes, they hired Coach Searels who I had a good relationship with when he was at UNC. Not to mention them being national champions!”

Freeling told On3 he enjoyed his visit to UF on March 19, particularly getting to know assistant coach Rob Sale.

“I really enjoyed my time in Florida when I went down there,” Freeling told On3. “The campus was really pretty and they have great academics. Coach Sale and I have a good relationship and I think that Florida is heading in the right direction!”

Freeling’s junior-season highlights can be viewed below, via Hudl:

Junior Season Highlights 2021

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CHARLESTON COUNTY, S.C. (WCIV) — Two people involved in a Mount Pleasant businessman's child sex trafficking case are expected in court later this month for plea hearings.

Dawson Caldwell- former president and CEO of AP Recovery in Mt. Pleasant- was arrested in October on a charge of child sex trafficking. He was indicted by a federal grand jury on human trafficking, prostitution and child pornography charges.

Cedrick Riley and Jessica Michelle Mills were charged in the same case.

They are set to appear in court later this month for plea hearings:

Mills' plea agreement was filed April 6, 2022. In it, Mills agreed to plead guilty to "conspiracy to traffic a minor for sex."

The maximum penalty is imprisonment for life, a fine of $250,000, a trafficking victim assessment fine of $5,000, and a term of supervised release of five years to life in addition to any term of imprisonment, plus a special assessment of $100.

In pleading guilty to this charge, the courts will move to dismiss the remaining charges against her.

Mills was charged with child sex trafficking and conspiracy to commit child sex trafficking, according to court records.

BACKGROUND

A 17-year-old girl, who is supposed to be in high school, was being sex trafficked and fed drugs, according to federal prosecutors.

A judge presiding over Caldwell' case said in court it appeared Caldwell led a secret life since the fall of 2020 that even his closest family didn’t know about. A life, prosecutors said in court, revolved around him acting as a teenager’s sugar daddy and dealing with a compulsive sex addiction.

Law enforcement said Caldwell's victim told them he fed her crack cocaine and fentanyl, as well as filmed sex acts, in turn for money.

Prosecutors said Caldwell spent upwards of $50,000 on her drug habit and paid for hotels and shopping as well as trips to his home that he called a “plantation” down in Beaufort County.

The case got federal attention last April when the victim was rushed to the hospital with an appendicitis. When the girl was under anesthesia, about to go into surgery, prosecutors say she asked a nurse to help her.

An investigator from Homeland Security said in court the girl told the nurse she was forced to have sex with 10 to 15 men a day, while drugged with fentanyl and cocaine.

Riley was her handler and Caldwell was a co-conspirator, according to investigators. The case was reported in May, but the abuse began in fall of 2020.

Caldwell was indicted by a federal grand jury on human trafficking, prostitution and child pornography charges.

Riley was indicted on one firearm offense, human trafficking and prostitution.

As part of the indictment, federal investigators seized firearms and two boats, a land cruiser and property in Sheldon belonging to Caldwell.

Caldwell also went by his alias Chuck Ashley.

allaz International Academy, Norbrook Strikers FC and Mount Pleasant Football Academy were all winners at the inaugural Genesis Academy Spring Football Tournament held recently at the Manchester High School.

The tournament, which featured teams from the parishes of Manchester, St Elizabeth, St Ann, St James and Kingston, had 20 participating teams in three age groups, including Under-8, Under-11 and Under-14.

Ballaz International Academy were crowned Under-8 champions, Norbrook Striker were crowned Under-11 champions while Mount Pleasant Football Academy were champions of the Under-14’s.

There were four organisations from Kingston — Ballaz, Emanuel Christian Academy, Norbrook Strikers and the all-female academy, Reinas Academy, Mount Pleasant from St Ann, Cornwall College from St James, Munro College from St Elizabeth, Belair PREP, Kick Start Academy, Redemption SC, May Day High, Manchester High, and Genesis Academy, the hosts, from Manchester.

There were 20 teams in total that participated in the tournament — four in the Under-8 and eight each in the Under-11 and Under -14.

Reinas had a good start to their tournament, clipping Genesis 1-0 courtesy of their player of the tournament Olivia Ashbourne. There were no further wins for the girls however, as they went down 0-4 to Munro, 0-1 to May Day, 1-4 to STATHS and 0-1 to Manchester High.

Tournament organiser and former national youth Coach Andrew Edwards said that his organisation saw it necessary to play their part in returning the sport to the parish of Manchester, at the youth level.

“The Spring Tournament came about after we decided we needed some impetus after the restart, following the hiatus brought on by the pandemic. We were hoping for a perfect eight across the board for all age groups, but we fell short in numbers in the Under-8 category.”

He has been listening to the feedback from the participating teams and the spectators who showed up at Manchester High.

“In general, the feedback has been very positive, we kept hearing that the tournament was well organised and executed. The main areas for improvement noted thus far are refereeing quality and time management.”

While their original tournament will not be held this year, the Spring Cup will remain on the Genesis calendar going forward Edwards revealed.

“We will not have a summer tournament for 2022, but our flagship Genesis Cup. will return in 2023. Absolutely the Spring Tournament will be made an annual calendar event.”

The first Genesis Cup was held in the summer of 2017 and was last held in 2019.

— Dwayne Richards

ST. PETER, Minn. – The Carleton College women's tennis team is headed back to the NCAA Championships for the eighth time in program history! The No. 2 seeded Knights took down top seed and No. 37-ranked Gustavus Adolphus College by a 5-1 margin in the finals of the MIAC Playoffs. This marked the eighth time since 2007 that these programs met in the title match of the conference tournament.

"Everyone competed well today," said Carleton head coach Luciano Battaglini. "It was a hard-fought win and another important title to our program!"

The Knights (15-1) avenged their only previous loss this season, a 5-4 defeat at the hands of the Gustavus (19-7) back on April 16.

The Knights' lineup today featured only one senior, Taylor Thulson (Sr./Louisville, Colo./Niwot), who makes up half of the third doubles duo. The rest of the Carleton players to see action on Saturday included one sophomore, Mary Frances Hose (So./Columbia, Mo./Rock Bridge), and six first-years. In contrast, the Gustavus lineup featured five seniors, a junior, and a sophomore.

Despite the difference in experience, the spotlight was not too bright for the young Knights as they got off to a great start by sweeping the three doubles matches.

Hose and Amelia Asfaw (Fy./Seattle, Wash./Seattle Prep), the No. 6-ranked tandem in the Central Region, once again got the best of the regionally-ranked pairing of Simona Potockova and Yuki Oda. This time the result was 8-1 in favor of the Carleton duo.

Rookies Mariam Nechiporuk (Fy./Portland, Ore./Lake Oswego) and Ingrid Smith (Fy./Edina, Minn./Edina) improved to 8-0 on the year after posting an 8-5 triumph at No. 2 doubles.

Thulson and Amanda Black (Fy./Libertyville, Ill./Libertyville) gave Carleton a 3-0 lead in the best-of-nine match with their 8-6 victory at No. 3 singles.

The 3-0 doubles sweep matched what Carleton accomplished against Gustavus three week ago. This time, the Knights were able to withstand the Gusties' comeback attempt in singles.

Hose, ranked No. 9 in the region, edged Carleton closer to the team victory with her 6-4, 6-0 win over No. 8-ranked Simona Potockova atop the singles lineup.

Gustavus got its first team point when Sydney Douglas rallied from a set down to win at No. 4 singles 4-6, 6-3, 6-3.

Nechiporuk dropped the opening set at No. 3 singles but came back to win her match and clinch the Knights' victory by a 3-6, 6-0, 6-4 tally.

The three unfinished singles matches were all in the third set when play was stopped. Asfaw led 4-6, 6-4, 2-1 at No. 2 singles, while Miriam Shteyman's (Fy./Plymouth, Minn./Wayzata) No. 5 singles match was all level at 7-5, 5-7. Piper Brown (Fy./Mt. Pleasant, S.C./Porter-Gaud) rallied to force a third set at No. 6 singles, with the scoreboard reading 4-6, 6-2, 1-2 when Nechiporuk secured the win.

Carleton previously played in the NCAA Championships in 1995, 1996, 2005, 2012, 2013, 2014, and 2019. The Knights won the MIAC Playoffs in 2012, 2013, 2014, 2019, and 2022.

Up Next for the Knights The full 49-team field for the NCAA Division III Women's Tennis Championships will be posted on NCAA.com by 12:00 p.m. ET/11:00 a.m. CT on Monday, May 9. The first, second, and third-round matches will take place between Thursday, May 12 and Sunday 15, depending on the teams involved and facility access.

Carleton College 5, #37 Gustavus Adolphus 1 Singles competition 1. Mary Frances Hose (CAR) def. Simona Potockova (GACW) 6-4, 6-0 2. Amelia Asfaw (CAR) vs. Anna Stutz (GACW) 4-6, 6-2, 2-1, unfinished 3. Mariam Nechiporuk (CAR) def. Yuki Oda (GACW) 3-6, 6-0, 6-4 4. Sydney Douglas (GACW) def. Ingrid Smith (CAR) 4-6, 6-3, 6-3 5. Miriam Shteyman (CAR) vs. Alli Laux (GACW) 7-5, 5-7, unfinished 6. Piper Brown (CAR) vs. Rachel Lindrud (GACW) 4-6, 6-2, 1-2, unfinished

Doubles competition 1. Mary Frances Hose/Amelia Asfaw (CAR) def. Simona Potockova/Yuki Oda (GACW) 8-1 2. Mariam Nechiporuk/Ingrid Smith (CAR) def. Anna Stutz/Sydney Douglas (GACW) 8-3 3. Taylor Thulson/Amanda Black (CAR) def. Rachel Lindrud/Josie Carlson (GACW) 8-6