Charleston, South Carolina — One of the four men accused by U.S. Rep. Nancy Mace of being a predator during a House floor address has been granted bond in a separate domestic violence case.
On Wednesday, a judge issued a $60,000 surety bond for Eric Bowman on two offenses, court documents show. Bowman, 45, faces first-degree domestic violence charges, 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.
In September, a judge refused Bowman’s bond, claiming he breached a previous consent bond ruling and was a danger to the alleged victim.
The previous bond consent agreement that prosecutors claim 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 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 severely hitting 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 charges Mace made against him during that speech.
Mace filed a defamation complaint 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.”
