Myrtle Beach man bilks hospital, non-profit out of $500,000, SLED reports. What he bought with money?
Editor’s note: The headline was updated to reflect the charges are from SLED. (Jan. 3, 2025, 8 a.m.)
A Myrtle Beach man is charged with defrauding a medical facility and a healthcare nonprofit of nearly $500,000, according to the South Carolina Law Enforcement Division.
Rusty Shane Shockley, 52, was arrested by SLED on charges of obtaining a signature of property by false pretenses and crimes against a federally chartered institution in Horry County on Oct. 28, 2024, and then two counts of obtaining a signature or property by false pretenses in Allendale County on Nov. 25, 2024.
Shockley is accused of receiving three electronic fund transfers totaling $130,000 from Little River Medical Center for a mobile medical recreational vehicle from May 4, 2022, through July 13, 2022. The money was transferred to a bank account of SOS RV, an RV repair business, that is controlled and operated by Shockley, a press release said.
Shockley does not have a dealer’s license with the state and he is accused of spending the money on personal expenditures and to other people, the release said. No equipment was delivered to Little River Medical Center.
Then on Feb. 27, 2023, Shockley is accused of receiving a check for $19,653 from a non-profit health care organization in Horry County for a mobile medical recreational vehicle, the release said. Shockley deposited that check and spent the money. He then deposited the same check in another bank and disbursed the money in cash apps, the release said.
On Oct. 24, 2022, Shockley allegedly was sent three wire transfers for $330,000 from a non-profit primary healthcare organization in Allendale County to purchase of three mobile medical recreational vehicle. The money was sent to the bank account of SOS RV, which is controlled by Shockley.
He was also paid by check on March 8, 2023, from Low Country Health Care for $19,653. The money was for vehicle wraps for mobile medical recreation vehicles which the health care organization had previously paid $300,000 for, the release said.
This story was originally published December 2, 2024 at 12:19 PM.
