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United States Attorney W. Walter Wilkins annouced today that Jeffrey Patrick Frye, 45 of Hanahan, South Carolina was indicted by a federal grand jury in a superseding indictment on seven counts of bank robbery. He was originally charged with four counts of bank robbery last month. That indictment charged Frye with robbing the First Citizen Bank on University Boulevard in North Charleston on December 24, 2008; the Bank of South Carolina on Chuck Dawley Boulevard in Mount Pleasant on January 20, 2009; and the First Citizen Bank on North Main Street in Summerville on January 23, 2009. Frye could receive a maximum possible sentence of 140 years in prison and a $1,750,000 fine.

Mr. Wilkins stated that the case was investigated by agents of the FBI, ATF, SLED, North Charleston Police Department, Lexington Police Department, the Ninth Circuit Solicitor's Office, Mount Pleasant Police Department, Summerville Police Department, Charleston Police Department, Spartanburg Sheriff's Office, Richland County Sheriff's Department, and the Orangeburg Department of Public Safety. He has assigned the case to Assistant United States Attorney Nick Bianchi 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.