Charleston, South Carolina – One of the four men accused of being predators by U.S. Rep. Nancy Mace will remain in prison after a judge refused bond in a separate case.
Eric Bowman of Sullivan’s Island has been charged with first-degree domestic violence, according to jail records. According to investigators, Sullivan’s Island Police filed the charges in August in connection with an incident at his residence on September 26, 2016.
According to a court order filed Tuesday, a judge refused a release request, citing Bowman’s violation of a previous consent bond order and his potential danger to the alleged victim.
Prosecutors claim he broke a condition of that bail by tagging the accused victim in social media posts.
The previous bond consent agreement that prosecutors claimed he breached related charges of first-degree harassment and stalking filed against him in April, when he was accused of planting a location tracker on a woman’s car in July of 2024. A judge at the time imposed a $5,000 bond for each of the two counts. Bowman was freed from jail after posting his $10,000 bond.
Prosecutors told the court that Bowman broke a condition of his release by tagging the alleged victim in social media posts and then telling a media outlet to search his social media for information on his estranged wife.
Prosecutors also alluded to video footage from the purported 2016 incident, which they claim shows him aggressively striking the claimed victim.
Mace referred to Bowman and three other men as “predators” in a February address on the United States House floor. Bowman has not been charged in connection with the allegations Mace made about him during that speech.
Mace has subsequently filed a defamation lawsuit against him, alleging he waged a “campaign of malicious and objectively false attacks on her fitness to hold public office” and falsely claimed she “engaged in illegal activity while serving in the House of Representatives.”
She charged Bowman of “intentionally and repeatedly” falsely accusing her of “illegally influencing the award of Department of Veterans Affairs contracts to friends and political allies.” According to the lawsuit, Bowman accused Mace of conniving with his ex-wife and influencing VA contracts for his ex-wife’s company.
