PRESS RELEASE
July 9, 2015

FCSO ARRESTS FLORENCE MAN FOR CRIMINAL SEXUAL CONDUCT

SUBJECT: Vance Ross, age 44, of 307 Rollins Street, Apt. 5, Timmonsville, SC 29161 was arrested by Investigators with the Florence County Sheriff’s Office on July 8, 2015 and charged with eight (8) counts of Criminal Sexual Conduct, First Degree (S.C. Code Section 16-3-655(A)(1)) and one (1) count of Committing a Lewd Act upon a Child Under 16 (S.C. Code Section 16-15-140). See FCSO Booking Website for additional details.

NARRATIVE: Following an investigation which lasted nearly a year, Investigators with the Florence County Sheriff’s Office arrested Vance Ross and charged him with multiple counts of Criminal Sexual Conduct, First Degree. According to Investigators, over a period of time beginning in December of 2009 and as late as July of 2014, Ross is alleged to have engaged in sexual battery with multiple child victims ranging in ages from 4 years to 8 years during the time of the assaults.

Under South Carolina law, a conviction for Criminal Sexual Conduct, First Degree carries a mandatory sentence of between 25 years and up to life in prison.

Ross is being held at the Florence County Detention Center while awaiting a bond hearing before a Circuit Court Judge.

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Major Michael M. Nunn
General Counsel/P.I.O.