Sanford's Security Detail Had Been Trying to Locate Him

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Sanford's Security Detail Had Been Trying to Locate Him


By Carol D. Leonnig
Washington Post Staff Writer
Thursday, June 25, 2009; 5:09 PM


The security detail for South Carolina Gov. Mark Sanford was actively searching for him over the weekend and concerned about his safety, but getting the runaround from his staff in trying to contact him, the director of the state's law enforcement agency said in an interview this afternoon.

Sanford asked his protective detail to "stand down" at 1 p.m. last Thursday at his mansion, and then drove off alone in a state law enforcement sport-utility vehicle, the director said. But agents weren't concerned until they heard a rumor Saturday that the governor had been spotted speeding on a South Carolina interstate in an SUV.

Reggie Lloyd, director of the state Law Enforcement Division, told reporters today that his agency, which operates the governor's protective detail, first tried reaching the governor's top staff without luck. The agents then tried to remotely check devices inside the vehicle to pinpoint its location but discovered that those tools were turned off, Lloyd said.

The state agency the same afternoon sought telephone company records to determine where Sanford might have been when using his cellphone and found he had last made a call some days earlier in the Atlanta area. Much later that day, Lloyd said, Sanford's chief of staff assured the agency that there was no reason to worry.

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1. THIS is why he needs to resign or be impeached/recalled.

He is too irresponsible and unpredictable to be governor of ANY state.