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Accused Bank Robber Faces Three More Charges

U.S. Attorney’s Office April 15, 2009
  • District of South Carolina (803) 929-3000

COLUMBIA, SC—United States Attorney W. Walter Wilkins announced today that Jeffrey Patrick Frye, age 45, of Hanahan, South Carolina, was indicted by a federal grand jury in a superseding indictment on seven counts of bank robbery.

Frye was originally indicted on four counts of bank robbery last month. That indictment charged Frye with robbing the First Citizens Bank on University Boulevard in North Charleston on December 24, 2008; the First Citizens Bank on Sunset Boulevard in Lexington on December 30, 2008; the Bank of South Carolina on Chuck Dawley Boulevard in Mount Pleasant on January 20, 2009; and the First Citizens Bank on North Main Street in Summerville on January 26, 2009.

The superseding indictment adds three more bank robbery charges against Frye: the First Citizens Bank on Reidville Road in Spartanburg on January 5, 2009; the First Citizens Bank on Parklane Road in Columbia on January 13, 2009; and the First Citizens Bank on Russell Street in Orangeburg on January 23, 2009.

Frye could receive a maximum possible sentence of 140 years in prison and a $1,750,000 fine.

Mr. Wilkins stated that the case was investigated by agents of the FBI, ATF, SLED, North Charleston Police Department, Lexington County Sheriff’s Dpeartment, Columbia Police Department, the Ninth Circuit Solicitor’s Office, Mount Pleasant Police Department, Summerville Police Department, Charleston Police Department, Spartanburg County Sheriff’s Office, Richland County Sheriff’s Department, and the Orangeburg Department of Public Safety, and that he has assigned the case to Assistant United States Attorney Nick Bianchi of the Charleston office for prosecution.

The United States Attorney stated that all charges in this Indictment are merely accusations and that all defendants are presumed innocent until and unless proven guilty.

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