A 35-year-old Cherokee County man and a 44-year-old Greenville County man are facing felony charges after separate investigations traced digital files of child sexual abuse material back to their devices. Randon Linc Moss was arrested on August 25 and booked into the Cherokee County Detention Center, while Patrick Wells McAmish was arrested Friday and booked into the Greenville County Detention Center. Officials say the two cases are unrelated, even though both stemmed from the same national tip system.
According to FOX Carolina News, the South Carolina Attorney General's Office reported that both men are facing charges connected to the sexual exploitation of minors, with the state's Attorney General's Office set to prosecute both cases. Moss is facing two counts of second-degree sexual exploitation of a minor and one count of third-degree sexual exploitation, according to the solicitor's office. Investigators say he both distributed and possessed files of child sexual abuse material.
McAmish, meanwhile, faces five counts of second-degree sexual exploitation of a minor, per the solicitor's office, which says he distributed files of child sex abuse material. The Greenville Police Department, Greenville County Sheriff's Office, Homeland Security Investigations, the U.S. Marshals Service, and the Cherokee County Sheriff's Office all assisted in the investigations that led to the two men's arrests.
How the Tips Reached Investigators
Both cases trace back to CyberTipline reports submitted by the National Center for Missing and Exploited Children, which flagged the men to investigators, per the solicitor's office. NCMEC's CyberTipline processed more than 61.8 million images, videos, and files tied to suspected child exploitation nationwide in 2025, according to Hoodline, functioning as the primary national clearinghouse that routes digital leads down to local law enforcement agencies. The National Center for Missing & Exploited Children describes its CyberTipline as the nation's centralized reporting system for online child exploitation, with reports made available to the appropriate law-enforcement agency. According to the National Center for Missing & Exploited Children, NCMEC referred more than 18.8 million CyberTipline reports to law enforcement in 2025 and designated more than 4.5 million reports as informational.
From there, the cases moved through South Carolina's Internet Crimes Against Children Task Force, a network the state's Attorney General's Office runs in coordination with more than 50 local, state, and federal agencies. That structure is what pulled in agencies ranging from Homeland Security Investigations to county sheriff's offices across two separate jurisdictions for what officials describe as unrelated investigations.
Greenville County's Exploitation Caseload
The Upstate has been a particular focus for these kinds of investigations. Greenville County logged 35 human trafficking and minor exploitation investigations in 2025, the highest total among South Carolina's 46 counties, according to a South Carolina Law Enforcement Division report the state's Attorney General's Office released in January. Statewide, law enforcement investigated more than 315 tips across 41 counties that year.
What Conviction Would Mean Under State Law
South Carolina's sentencing framework leaves little room for negotiation on the second-degree charges both men face. Under South Carolina Code Section 16-15-405, second-degree sexual exploitation of a minor is a felony carrying a mandatory minimum of two years and up to 10 years in prison per count, according to Williams and Walsh.
The third-degree charge Moss faces is related to possession of child sexual abuse material, per Christopher L. Jones Law. The article also cites the Kent Collins Law Firm in its discussion of sex-offender registration.
South Carolina's statutes covering this kind of digital evidence are also discussed in the article. House Bill 4804 is mentioned in connection with sexual-exploitation-of-a-minor offenses. The article also mentions Senate Bill 723.
The Moss and McAmish arrests are recent South Carolina cases. Both new cases remain in early stages, with the South Carolina Attorney General's Office handling prosecution going forward.
