LANCASTER COUNTY, S.C. (WJZY) – A South Carolina man has been accused of holding four "vulnerable adults" captive in his basement, including one who claims she had been there against her will since 2015.

Donnie Birchfield Jr.'s charges range from financial crimes and neglect to domestic violence and false imprisonment. A neighbor who spoke with Nexstar's WJZY said she couldn't believe what the 35-year-old has been accused of.

"This is a quiet area. This is a quiet neighborhood. And I was shocked to have anything happen," Christy Barnes, a resident of Lancaster County, said.

"Just to think that this was going on right around the corner from our house, right around the corner from the park," she added.

In July, Lancaster police investigating a death in Lancaster said they discovered four

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