Charleston Man Indicted for Mt. Pleasant Bank Robbery
| U.S. Attorney’s Office September 15, 2010 |
COLUMBIA, SC—United States Attorney Bill Nettles stated today that Jeffrey Paul Nance, age 48, of Charleston, was charged in two-count Indictment with bank robbery and using a firearm during a crime of violence. Nance is charged with using a firearm to rob the First Federal Bank on Coleman Boulevard in Mt. Pleasant.
Bill Nettles stated the maximum penalty Jeffrey Paul Nance could receive is imprisonment of 25 years for the bank robbery and an additional five years for the use of the firearm.
Mr. Nettles stated that the case was investigated by officers of the Mt. Pleasant Police Department and the FBI and that he has assigned the case to Assistant United States Attorney Alston Badger 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.