Police pulled a Florida woman off a Bahamas-bound cruise ship after the Lexington County Sheriff’s Department took out six warrants for her arrest. The department got it wrong, she alleged in a recently filed lawsuit.
Rebecca Rego, 25, who lives in Florida, had never been to South Carolina, her lawsuit said, when a Lexington County Sheriff’s Department investigator, Jason Jones, began looking into a case of vehicle theft and a subsequent string of credit card fraud. A less-than-two-week investigation led Jones to Rego. In November 2024, she was arrested while aboard a cruise ship with her family and held for 10 days before being transported to the Lexington jail.
In a lawsuit filed in Lexington County Sept. 8, 2025, Rego, whose arrest was exonerated two days after her arrival to the jail, accuses the sheriff’s department of negligence, malicious prosecution, false arrest, and violations of both her civil rights and the Freedom of Information Act…