Oconeean to be arraigned

A magistrate is scheduled to convene a court arraignment at Greenville this morning for a 33-year old Oconeean charged with a federal firearms offense. In the proceeding, according to a court officer, Shannon David Powers of Alexander Road, Seneca, is to be read the formal charge and asked to state a plea. Authorities say in recent days Powers had been held in the Oconee Detention Center, but he was released to the custody of ATF—Alcohol, Tobacco and Firearms—to be transported to this morning’s 10 o’clock hearing at the federal building in Greenville.