On Sunday, deputies arrested an Insta-Cart driver who was accused of bothering someone after delivering their groceries.
The Cherokee County Sheriff’s Office says that Alan Craig Parker, 41, brought food to the home of a victim in Blacksburg, South Carolina. Parker got the victim’s phone number from the delivery service app Insta-Cart while he was bringing the victim goods. The suspect started sending the victim sexually explicit texts and pictures on March 6. The victim told the caller they shouldn’t call them and blocked the number.
From March 6 to June 2, the suspect called and texted the victim many times from different phone numbers. During this time, the victim called the police four times to report harassment, officers say.
A judge signed an arrest warrant for harassment in the second degree and eight arrest warrants for sending obscene messages to another person on May 30. These were given to investigators working on the case.
The Bessemer City Police Department in Gaston County, North Carolina, was asked by CCSO investigators to help them catch the wanted person. Parker was caught in Gaston County on Sunday at 3 p.m. and taken to the Gaston County Sheriff’s Office Detention Center while he waits to be sent back to Cherokee County.
Investigators say that once Parker is extradited, he will be officially charged with the nine arrest warrants that are out for him in Cherokee County.
If you or someone you know is being sexually harassed, you should report it right away to the police. If the person is a delivery driver, you should file an official complaint with the company or vendor that hires them to do the deliveries. With all the information we give up or share for convenience today, it’s important to remember that our safety should always come first and that we should do everything we can to stay safe from people like this suspect. Because we don’t know what kind of background checks these companies really do on some of these third-party service workers, Cherokee County Sheriff Mueller said.
