ASHEBORO — A Richmond County man is one of 19 people from three states and nine North Carolina counties charged with sex crimes against children in Randolph County.
Larry Alan Hogan, 70, of Ellerbe, is charged with attempted statuatory rape and attempted statutory sex offense with a child, according to a press release from the Randolph County Sheriff’s Office.
The charges listed in online records with the N.C. Court System do not include the word “attempted” and the statutory rape charge is shown as involving a child 15 years old or younger.
The press release states that the Randolph County Sheriff’s Office Criminal Investigations Division concluded a joint investigation with multiple agencies “regarding the online solicitation of minors.”
Hogan was arrested on Aug. 2, given a $150,000 secured bond and his first court appearance was Aug. 3, according to the press release. Court records show his next appearance is scheduled for Aug. 22.
Others charged in the investigation were:
- Harold Wade Beavers, 67, of Greensboro (Guilford County)
- Gilber Josue Chilel-Chun, 23, of Asheboro (Randolph County)
- Qwambe Kai Frasier, 49, of Greensboro (Guilford County)
- Tony Darrell Howard, 53, of Asheboro (Randolph County)
- Randy Dale Moose Jr., 42, of Salisbury (Rowan County)
- Michael RC Warren, 43, of Greensboro (Guilford County)
- Christopher Bryon Wilson, 38, of Harrisburg (Cabarrus County)
- Osley Joktan Quincell Moore, 29, of Jonesville (Yadkin County)
- Richard Joseph Gavin, 57, of Charlotte (Mecklenburg County)
- Tramaine Dion Smith, 43, of Dunn (Harnett County)
- Roger Elwood Slate, 53, of Germanton (Stokes-Forsyth County)
- Joseph Barrier Shuping, 61, of Asheboro (Randolph County)
- Mitchell Laverne Reed, 49, of Rock Hill, South Carolina
- Joe Carlton Brown Jr., 36, of Greensboro (Guilford County)
- Ricky Wayne Gilliam, 67, of Wise, Virginia
- Gustavo Ventura Salmeron, 47, of Asheboro (Randolph County)
- William Bradley Norton, 46, of Randleman (Randolph County)
- William Ray Hartsell, 30, of Charlotte (Mecklenburg County)
The other agencies involved were: the sheriff’s offices of Davie, Rockingham, Catawba, Davidson, Moore, Cabarrus, Cleveland, Gaston and Alamance counties; police departments of Liberty, Winston-Salem, Salisbury, Mayodan and Nashville; N.C. Department of Adult Correction Probation and Parole; the N.C. State Bureau of Investigation; the Federal Bureau of Investigation; Homeland Security Investigations; the Army Criminal Investigations Division; Naval Criminal Investigative Service.
This isn’t Hogan’s first time charged with sex-related crimes.
In December of 2014, multiple media outlets reported that Hogan was one of several people charged in a sting by the Florence (South Carolina) Police Department, where undercover officers posed as prostitutes online and arranged to meet the defendants at a motel.
Hogan had been charged with a single misdemeanor count of solicitation of prostitution.
However, a case search in Florence County shows no record of the charge, and a spokesman for the Florence Police Department said Monday that there were “no records responsive to your request.”
South Carolina statute Section 17-1-40 states in part that if a defendant’s record is expunged: “…because the person was charged with a criminal offense, or was issued a courtesy summons … and the charge was discharged, proceedings against the person were dismissed, or the person was found not guilty of the charge, then the arrest and booking record, associated bench warrants, mug shots, and fingerprints of the person must be destroyed and no evidence of the record pertaining to the charge or associated bench warrants may be retained by any municipal, county, or state agency.”
South Carolina also has a pre-trial intervention program that gives first-time offenders “…a second chance through rehabilitative services when those efforts can potentially deter future criminal behavior.”
If accepted into that program, charges are put on hold and as long as the defendant is participating in the program, they will not be called for trial.
All defendants facing criminal charges are presumed innocent until proven guilty in a court of law.
