Randy Lee Smith sat in the Greenville County Detention Center after deputies booked him on Oct. 7. The 62-year-old faces six charges. One is criminal sexual conduct with a minor in the third degree for a lewd act with a child between 14 and 16 years old. Another is incest. He also faces criminal sexual conduct with a minor in the second degree. Two counts of contributing to the delinquency of a minor appear on the list. So does assault with intent to commit criminal sexual conduct in the third degree.
No judge had set bond on any of those counts when the jail records came out. The Greenville County Sheriff’s Office made the arrest. Details of what led to the charges stay unclear.
Smith spent 31 years as a special agent with the Drug Enforcement Administration. That long stretch put him deep inside federal drug work across the country. In June 2021 a staff write-up from FAVOR Upstate laid out his career. By April of that same year he had stepped into a new role. He became the first criminal justice coordinator for FAVOR Greenville. The group helps people with addiction recovery and support. His name no longer shows up on their staff page.
The Rotary Club of Greenville once honored him for his federal law enforcement service. That recognition came during the years he still wore the badge. Now the same man who chased drug traffickers for more than three decades sits behind bars in the county jail. The shift from agent to inmate happened fast.
Jail records list every charge. They show the booking date. They note the lack of bond. Nothing more about the case has come out yet. The sheriff’s office remains the agency on the paperwork. Smith’s decades of service stand in sharp contrast to the charges now attached to his name.
People who knew him from the Rotary dinners or the recovery work at FAVOR now see a different picture. The man who once stood for federal authority faces the full weight of state charges in his own home county. The case moves forward from the detention center where he remains held.
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