Albany police seek shooting victim, make arrests in sex trafficking case

ALBANY – The victim in a Jan. 5 shooting now faces charges himself and police are seeking him on multiple drug- and weapons-related counts, including trafficking methamphetamine and fentanyl.

The Albany Police Department identified the suspect they are seeking as William Larry Hagan. Hagan was wounded during the shooting incident at the 2486 N. Slappey Boulevard Walmart location and was released on Friday after being treated at the hospital.

The shooting suspect, Joseph Jackson Jr., has been charged with aggravated assault.

Since the time of the incident, the Albany-Dougherty Special Investigative Unit has issued warrants for Hagan on charges of trafficking methamphetamine and fentanyl, possession of marijuana with intent to distribute, possession of drug-related objects, possession of cocaine, possession of a Schedule II substance, three counts of possession of a firearm by a convicted felon and tampering with evidence.

Police request that anyone with information about Hagan’s whereabouts call investigators with the unit at (229) 430-5150 or Albany police at (229) 431-2100.

In an unrelated incident, police arrested a 67-year-old Albany man charged with having sex with a teenage girl and the girl’s mother on charges related to the activity.

When police responded on Sunday to the 1500 block of East Broad Avenue, Cleo Spence told officers that he wanted a family who had been staying with him to leave. During the investigation Kimberly Murray reported that she had found messages from Spence to one of her daughters that indicated he sexually assaulted her.

When police spoke with the girl, she reported that Spence had been paying her for sex since August and that her mother had instructed her to do so.

Spence was charged with prostitution, grooming, aggravated sodomy, solicitation of sodomy, sexual battery and human trafficking.

Police charged the mother with pimping and human trafficking.

Both are being held in the Dougherty County Jail.