Man banned from Coker University arrested after being caught on campus

HARTSVILLE, S.C. (WPDE) — Christopher Jermaine Deas, 48, who was banned from Coker University, was arrested after being caught on campus, according to a Hartsville Police Department incident report.

The police report states that Deas was banned from campus in 2016 and banned from campus.

According to the report, Deas told the officer he was at school and to use the computer.

The report said Deas told the arresting officer that the “ban was only in effect for two years and was then lifted.”

The officer told Deas that it was a “lifetime ban.”

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The officer stated in the police report:

“I thought it was strange that he was from Florence and yet he came all the way to Hartsville to use a computer in the library on a college campus and he didn't, so I asked him why he didn't just ( empty) went because it was He explained to me that he had been banned from the property. One of the security officers also asked him if he had spoken to any of the students, and Deas admitted to speaking to a student.

Multiple sources told ABC15 that Deas was charged with trespassing at Wake Forest University last month after he grabbed a student's ankle under a table in the library.

A search of the SC Public Index shows that Deas has a trespassing charge pending out of Florence County.

ABC15 reached out to authorities in Florence County to learn more about the charges and the agency that arrested him.

Deas is being held at the W. Glenn Campbell Detention Center in Darlington on a $5,415 bond.