South Carolina Internet Predator Pleads Guilty
June 22, 2006
A Spartanburg, South Carolina man who had eluded capture for three months pleaded guilty Thursday to soliciting sexual contact on the Internet, and was sentenced to five years in prison.
Attorney General Henry McMaster said David Charles Brown, 55, of 237 New Cut Road in Spartanburg, pleaded guilty to two counts of criminal solicitation of a minor. McMaster said Brown solicited sexual contact using the Internet from an individual he believed to be a 14-year-old girl. In reality, he was soliciting sex from an undercover investigator of the Westminster Police Department, a member of the Attorney General’s Internet Crimes Against Children (ICAC) Task Force.
Authorities searched Brown's home on Jan. 27, seizing computer equipment, videotapes, and various other items. Brown was a fugitive until his arrest on April 26. He has been in custody at the Oconee County Detention Center since his arrest.
The Spartanburg County Sheriff’s Department and the State Law Enforcement Division (SLED), also members of the Attorney General’s ICAC Task Force, assisted in the effort to locate Brown and deliver him to Oconee County. The Attorney General’s Office prosecuted the case.
Judge Cordell Maddox, Jr., presiding over the General Sessions Court of Anderson County, sentenced Brown to 10 years in prison, suspended to five years and five years probation on each count concurrently.
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