New details emerge in stalking case against ex-MS Coast councilman & son of former state senator
A former Mississippi Coast councilman and the son of a former state senator and current state parole board member is in hot water again following his arrest Monday on charges of stalking and violating his probation for inappropriately touching a teen he made sexual advances on.
Waveland police arrested Alan Moran on Monday. He remains jailed in Hancock County on a misdemeanor stalking charge related to an alleged offense in November, according to jail records. He is not entitled to a bond because of the probation violation.
“He was basically stalking a kid at Lowe’s and wouldn’t leave him alone,” Chief Michael Prendergast said Monday. “The kid wound up coming to us and pursuing charges. It’s another boy. He was like trying to pick him up.”
New details in the case emerged Tuesday after the Sun Herald received a copy of the Waveland police report documenting the allegations of stalking against Moran.
According to the report, the 19-year-old employee at Lowe’s accuses Moran of repeatedly stalking and harassing him at his job at Lowe’s.
During an encounter in November, the report said, Moran identified himself as a local contractor who had just finished a job in Old Town in Bay St. Louis.
The employee said Moran made small talk that included alleged sexually suggestive comments about how he thought the man could make a quick $20 off women he worked with.
The teen said he felt so uncomfortable around Moran that he left the area he was working in at Lowe’s and went to work next to the head cashier in the front of the store,
But the alleged harassment and stalking continued, the report said.
When the man got off work one evening in November, he told police that Moran was waiting in the parking lot and offered him $20 for sex.
The man said he just got in his car and left.
Moran’s attorney, Donald Rafferty, spoke out on his behalf Tuesday.
“We emphatically deny the allegations,” Rafferty said. “People are trying to take shots at him (Moran). The bottom line is we look forward to our day in court. He is pleading not guilty. We can’t say anything other than that.”
Moran is now set for a court hearing in January in Waveland Municipal Court in the misdemeanor stalking case. It’s unclear when he will go before a Circuit Court judge regarding his probation violation. The higher court judge will ultimately decide what action to take against Moran because of his arrest in the stalking case.
If Moran’s bond is revoked, a judge could order him to serve his 15-year sentence handed down in February for misdemeanor contributing to the delinquency of a minor and child exploitation.
In that case, Moran admitted to buying a teen beer and enticing the young man to meet him for sex by luring him to a business owned by Moran’s father, ex-state Sen. Philip Moran.
Gov. Tate Reeves appointed the elder Moran to serve on the state parole board after his failed attempt at another term as a Mississippi state senator.
Moran has been in and out of trouble since his initial arrest on Valentine’s Day in 2022 at Dolly’s Quick Stop for the misdemeanor offense and the felony charge of child exploitation that he later pleaded guilty to. He served 30 days in jail for those crimes with additional orders to stay off the Internet and social media sites. He has to register as a sex offender for the rest of his life.
He received a suspended 15-year prison sentence, meaning he didn’t have to serve the time in prison unless he violated the conditions of his probation.
In that case, Moran admitted luring the teen to him by sending a message to him over the Snapchat app to ask if he wanted to work at his father’s business on Valentine’s Day 2022.
The teen met Moran at Philip’s Pest Control, the then-name of the company owned by Moran’s father but one where Alan Moran also performed work.
An investigator later testified that he saw the message sent to the teen.
After the two met up, the teen told authorities Moran took him to a pasture to look at some cattle, and then they drove around doing work in the pest control truck before Moran later stopped at his home in Diamondhead and pulled out a sex toy.
According to prosecutors, Moran offered the teen cash and cellphone to play with the sex toy, but the teen declined.
Moran got the teen to meet up with him that Valentine’s Day to make money working for his father’s pest control company. During the drive, Moran rubbed the victim’s legs and genitals.
When the teen resisted Moran’s actions, authorities said he started saying, “’What, are you mad at me? You don’t want me to touch you there?’”
Sheriff’s investigators said the teen sent his parents a text message asking for help and telling them to meet them when they pulled up at Dolly’s Quick Stop.
When the teen and Moran drove up, the teen took the keys out of the truck so Moran couldn’t leave before Hancock sheriff’s deputies arrived.
The same day Moran committed the crimes against that teen, investigators said Moran spent time talking on a dating app about his sexual fantasies and how he preferred young heterosexual men for group sex. He also shared a sex tape of him and his wife.
Moran discussed those fantasies and more with 16 different men on Grindr, an Internet dating app that caters to gay men and others in the LGBTQ community.
This story was originally published December 11, 2024 at 7:00 AM.
