Suspicious activity near church leads to two arrests

Just after 5 p.m. Monday, Cherokee County Sheriff’s deputies were alerted to suspicious activity near a Riverton church.

As deputies responded to the area, a man wearing a mask approached a church van carrying a sawzall. Upon realizing he had been seen by a nearby resident, the man got back into a car driven by a woman and fled the area.

Deputies located the vehicle north of Riverton and conducted a…