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LEXINGTON, SC (WACH) - A Greenville County man running from the law across the country has been caught by Lexington County deputies.

Lexington County Sheriff’s Department deputies along with the U.S. Marshals Service fugitive task force arrested 34-year-old Kevin Lee Lewis, who was wanted by the Sheriff’s Department for two years on arrest warrants that the 11th Circuit Solicitor’s Office Worthless Check Unit obtained for the man on 47 counts of passing fraudulent checks.

The arrest warrants allege that between September 2010 and December 2010 the man passed bad checks totaling about $38,000 to persons and businesses in Lexington County.

Lexington County Sheriff James R. Metts said sheriff’s investigators and Operation Intercept officers arrested Lewis around 5 p.m. on Tuesday, April 24 at a home in Pickens. Lewis was being held on Thursday, April 26 at the Lexington County Detention Center on bail totaling $38,500.

Lewis will be required to wear an electronic monitoring device on his ankle in the event that he posts bail and is released from the Detention Center.

Lewis, whose permanent address is in Mauldin, SC, had been on the run from law enforcement since 2010, according to Metts.  Investigators tracked Lewis’ movements to the  in South Carolina, North Carolina, Wyoming and eventually Pickens. Lewis altered his physical appearance while he was on the run from law enforcement.
        
In 2010, Lewis was interviewed for a television news story concerning the Occupy Charlotte movement. In that interview, Lewis was clean-shaven, with his hair cut short and spiked at the top. At the time of his arrest, Lewis had a full beard and long hair.