Columbia Man Indicted for Falsely Claiming to be in Military
| U.S. Attorney’s Office May 06, 2010 |
COLUMBIA, SC—United States Attorney William N. Nettles announced that Stephen Carlyle Jefferson, a/k/a Steve Black, 32, of Columbia, was indicted by a federal grand jury for falsely representing to special agents of the United States Army that he was an active member of the Maryland National Guard and that his unit of assignment was the 248th Medical Detachment at Fort Jackson.
The maximum penalty for the offense is a fine of $250,000 and imprisonment for five years. The case was investigated by agents of the United States Army, Criminal Investigation Command, and the Federal Bureau of Investigation. Assistant U.S. Attorney Anne Hunter Young of the Columbia office is prosecuting the case.
The United States Attorney stated that all charges in this Indictment are merely accusations and that the Defendant is presumed innocent until and unless proven guilty.