Judge sends ex-MS Coast councilman Alan Moran to prison for violating probation
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- Judge revoked Alan Moran’s probation due to new bribery and conspiracy charges
- Moran must serve 12 years of original 15-year sentence for child exploitation
- Bribery case alleges Moran offered $20,000 to drop stalking charge against him
A Circuit Court judge Thursday found former Mississippi Coast Councilman Alan Joseph Moran violated his probation on a felony child exploitation conviction because of his indictment on new felony charges of bribery and conspiracy..
As a result, Judge Christopher Schmidt revoked Moran’s probation for child exploitation and ordered him to serve 12 years of his original 15-year suspended prison sentence he originally received for the offense.
The judge made the judgment despite arguments from Moran’s attorney, Donald Raffety, to postpone the revocation hearing until a later date, preferably after Moran and three others are arraigned on the new felony charges. By then, Rafferty said, he could collect evidence in the bribery and conspiracy case that would allow him to properly defend Moran in the revocation hearing.
However, the judge pointed out a Hancock County grand jury had already heard the evidence and found enough to indict Moran, his father, former Mississippi State Sen. Philip Moran, Jeremy Billings, of Diamondhead, and Ian Schexnayder, of Pearlington, on the bribery and conspiracy charges.
Moran denies involvement in the bribery case, Rafferty said.
A disheveled Moran appeared in court in a gray and black striped jail jumpsuit. He has been in jail since the judge first revoked his probation on a misdemeanor contributing conviction following a new arrest in 2024 for misdemeanor stalking. A judge has since convicted Moran on the stalking offense.
In court Thursday, Assistant District Attorney Chris Daniel successfully argued for the judge to revoke Moran’s probation and send him to prison.
Moran has been in and out of jail since his arrest on Valentine’s Day 2022. for luring a 17-year-old boy to him for sex and for buying the same teen a beer to drink.
The teen victim’s mom, Raychel Dykes, and her husband Russell Dykes attended the revocation hearing on Thursday. Russell Dykes said he had hoped the judge would order Moran to serve the full 15-year sentence for child exploitation.
“I feel great,” Raychel Dykes said. “This is a big deal for our community. I mean, it’s essentially a sex offender not roaming our streets, messing with our children.”
In the bribery case, Moran and the others are accused of attempting to pay the stalking victim $20,000 to drop his stalking allegations against Alan Moran in that case.
The stalking victim declined the offer and reported the bribery to Waveland police, that then launched a whole new criminal investigation involving Moran and his father.
This story was originally published June 19, 2025 at 4:10 PM.
