Illegal moonshine operation in Orangeburg, SC. Destroyed by Police ..

HOLLY HILL, S.C. (WIS) —

Deputies in Orangeburg County discovered an active liquor still in a remote part of the woods and used guns and axes to destroy it.

On Monday afternoonm investigators with the Orangeburg County Sheriff’s Office Narcotics Unit and Sheriff Leroy Ravenell went to the still to destroy it.

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The illegal operation was hidden a few miles east of Holly Hill, deputies said. When they got there, deputies said they found more than a dozen 55-gallon barrels with liquor fermenting inside them. They said they also found barrels of mash, which is used to start making moonshine.

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Tools and a generator used in the illegal operation were also destroyed, deputies said.

“If people up and down the East Coast could see how this stuff is made, they’d reconsider their orders,” Ravenell said.

Deputies estimated they stopped about $6,000 of illegal liquor from being sold.

However, no arrests have been made at this time and the case remains under investigation.