Attorney wants GPS data, subpoenas sheriff for criminal complaints against Coast councilman
An attorney for a Hancock County couple suing a Diamondhead city councilman is asking the sheriff’s department for any and all records of alleged criminal wronging made against Alan Moran prior to the alleged Valentine’s Day sexual assault of the couple’s minor son.
Attorney David Baria asked for the information in a subpoena filed Tuesday for Hancock County Sheriff Ricky Adam and is filed as part of the civil lawsuit against Moran.
In it, the attorney specifically requests for all “notes, electronic and written messages, letters or other written communication, files, investigative reports, videos, or other records and documents relating to criminal offenses” alleged against Moran to include any “affidavits or allegations relating to sexual assault or battery.”
Moran is currently out of jail on a $5,000 bond on charges of simple assault and contributing to the delinquency of a minor involving the couple’s 17-year-old son. He’s accused of repeatedly touching the teen’s genitals and buying him beer.
Baria said he has information that other young males have had experiences with Moran that are “similar, if not identical” to the boy’s encounter. Those young men, he believes, also have reported their complaints to the sheriff’s department.
A civil lawsuit Baria filed in Hancock County Circuit Court accuses Moran of assault and battery, false imprisonment and intentional infliction of emotional distress of the teen victim.
In addition, the suit accuses Philip’s Pest Control Co. LLC, and A&M Spray Foam Insulation, LLC, of gross negligence, for failing to stop the alleged abuse.
Moran’s father, state Sen. Philip Moran, owns the pest control company. Alan Moran owns the insulation company. Alan Moran was working as a manager at Phillip’s Pest Control at the time of the alleged assault in February.
“We believe that the information that we are requesting will bolster our client’s argument that these two companies knew or should have known of Alan Moran’s behavior,” Baria said Wednesday.
In a separate public records request filed with Hancock County officials, Baria is asking for GPS records for Philip’s Pest Control vehicles from March 1, 2020, to March 1, 2022.
Hancock County has a contract with Philip’s Pest control, and during the alleged assault in February, Moran allegedly turned off the GPS tracking devices in two mosquito trucks he was in with the alleged victim.
The GPS records, Baria believes, could show that Moran had a propensity for disabling GPS tracking in the mosquito trucks when he was allegedly “engaged in illicit behavior.”
In 2019, Hancock County supervisors raised concerns about whether Philip’s Pest Control was in compliance with the county’s mosquito control contract.
As part of that review, the county requested an inventory of the pest control vehicles and GPS for those vehicles, among other things.
Supervisors noted then Philip’s Pest Control identified four company vehicles, though the monthly report the county had received only included limited GPS tracking information from two of the vehicles.
Moran has not attended any council meeting in Diamondhead since his Feb. 14 arrest. His attorney, Donald Rafferty, said Moran has been away receiving medical treatment.
