COLUMBIA - Attorney General Henry McMaster announced Wednesday that a Myrtle Beach man was arrested in an internet sex sting.
According to a press release, James Randall Vereen, 41, of 304 2nd Avenue North, Apt. 2, in Myrtle Beach, was arrested on June 15, 2010, in an undercover Internet sting conducted by the Richland County Sheriff's Office.
Vereen was arrested on two (2) counts of criminal solicitation of a minor, a felony offense punishable to ten years imprisonment on each count.
Arrest warrants allege that beginning May 31, 2010, Vereen began soliciting sex in online "chats" with a person he believed to be a minor child.
In reality, he was communicating with an undercover Richland County Sheriff's Deputy. Vereen was arrested at his residence without incident.
Vereen's roommate consented to a search of the residence, which resulted in the seizure of a laptop computer.
The Myrtle Beach Police Department, the Horry County Sheriff's Department, and the Pickens County Sheriff's Department - all members of the Task Force - assisted in the case.
Vereen is awaiting a bond hearing.
This is the 191st arrest since the Internet Predator law was passed in April 2004.
McMaster stressed that all defendants are presumed innocent unless and until they are proven guilty in a court of law.
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