PRESS RELEASE
May 14, 2015

FCDC Employee Charged with Misconduct

SUBJECT: Leah Harris Longmore, age 44, of 2571 S. Charleston Road, Florence, SC 29505 was arrested by Investigators with the Florence County Sheriff’s Office on May 14, 2015 and charged with common law Misconduct in Office (See FCSO Booking Website for additional details).

NARRATIVE: Investigators with the Florence County Sheriff’s Office arrested Leah Harris Longmore on May 14, 2015 and charged her with Misconduct in Office. According to FCSO Investigators, between February and May of 2015, Longmore, a corrections officer with the Florence County Detention Center committed misconduct in office by knowingly and willingly entering into an inappropriate relationship with a South Carolina Department of Corrections inmate housed at the Florence County Detention Center. Longmore’s employment with the detention center has been terminated.

Longmore was released from the Florence County Detention Center on a $5000.00 personal recognizance bond.

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