Return man arrested, accused of harassing officer

A 44-year old man near Seneca has been arrested on charges of harassing his neighbor. In Oconee Sheriff’s Office records, the victim is identified as an Anderson sheriff’s investigator, a neighbor of the accused. Arrest warrants accuse Brant Astron Ross of the Return Church Road of harassment first degree and threatening the life of a public employee. In the offenses alleged between November 5 and 11, Ross is accused a making a verbal threat and “a pattern of intentional, substantial, and unreasonable intrusion into the private life (his neighbor) that caused victim to suffer mental distress.” According to an Oconee sheriff’s officer’s account of the investigation, the neighbor, not identified by name, accused Ross of cursing and yelling physical threats from his back porch. The investigating officer quoted the neighbor as saying the yelling and screaming is an every day occurrence.