PRESS RELEASE
July 25, 2019

FCSO ARRESTS ARMED ROBBERY AND KIDNAPPING SUSPECTS


SUBJECT: Keonia Bre Asia Robinson, age 21, of 860 Greenbriar Road, Camden, SC 29020 was arrested by Investigators with the Florence County Sheriff’s Office on July 23, 2019 and charged with Armed Robbery (S.C. Code Ann. 16-11-330(A)), Possession of a Weapon During the Commission of a Violent Crime (S.C. Code Ann. 16-23-490) and Kidnapping (S.C. Code Ann. 16-03-910 ). See FCSO Booking Website for additional details.

NARRATIVE: Investigators with the Florence County Sheriff’s Office arrested Keonia Bre Asia Robinson on July 23, 2019 and charged her with Armed Robbery and Kidnapping of a Florence woman. According to Investigators, on July 19, 2019, Robinson and a juvenile co-defendant are alleged to have unlawfully seized and restrained a female passenger in a vehicle operated by Robinson on East Palmetto Street in Florence, SC. Investigators indicate that Robinson and the juvenile then robbed the victim at gunpoint. Investigators state that the victim was ultimately able to escape by jumping out of the vehicle.

Robinson and the juvenile co-defendant were arrested in Lugoff, SC on July 23, 2019. Robinson is being held at the Florence County Detention Center without bond. The juvenile co-defendant was is charged with Kidnapping and Armed Robbery and is being held at the South Carolina Department of Juvenile Justice in Columbia, SC.

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