Authorities filed two new felony charges, including arson, against an Army sergeant already held behind bars on more than three dozen child pornography-related charges.
Coffee County District Attorney Gary McAliley said investigators charged Dustin Hogan, 30, of New Brockton, with felony first-degree receiving stolen property and felony criminal solicitation to commit second-degree arson.
Coffee County Sheriff’s detectives arrested Hogan on the two new charges late Tuesday. McAliley said Coffee County District Court Judge Paul Sherling set a $20,000 bond on both those charges Wednesday afternoon. But McAliley said Hogan will remain held in the Coffee County Jail on the $5.4 million bond previously set on the child porn charges.
McAliley said the stolen property charge stemmed from a pair of military night vision goggles investigators seized during the search of Hogan’s home. He said investigators traced a serial number to find they were stolen from a helicopter crash that happened outside the Wiregrass. He said the goggles have an estimated value of $7,000.
McAliley said deputies charged Hogan with the arson crime after he apparently contacted his mother from a cell at the Coffee County Jail, asking her to burn down his house and dispose of his personal belongings.
He also said Sherling determined there was sufficient evidence to bind the child pornography cases over to be heard by a Coffee County grand jury next week. Hogan faces 38 felony counts of possession of child pornography with the intent to distribute, each a class B felony crime that carries a sentence of two to 20 years in prison.
McAliley said the evidence against Hogan includes 18 videos and pictures of him sexually assaulting two girls, ages 8 and 10. McAliley said the girls are from another state. He said authorities first heard about the allegations after Hogan’s girlfriend notified the Coffee County Sheriff’s Office.
The investigation is ongoing, with the possibility of a sexual assault charge being filed against Hogan.
“It is the most repulsive sex case involving children I’ve had in my 36 years as a judge or district attorney,” McAliley said.
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