Grand Strand and Lowcountry Men Arrested on Criminal Solicitation of a Minor Charges

(COLUMBIA, S.C.) - South Carolina Attorney General Alan Wilson announced the arrest of Bryan Franklin Snead, 52, of Myrtle Beach, S.C., and Richard Edward Mitchell, 54, of Bonneau, S.C. on two total charges connected to the criminal solicitation of a minor. Internet Crimes Against Children (ICAC) Task Force investigators with the Goose Creek Police Department made the arrests in these unrelated cases. Investigators with the Naval Criminal Investigative Service and the Mount Pleasant Police Department, both also members of the state's ICAC Task Force, assisted with these investigations.

Investigators state Snead and Mitchell solicited people they believed to be minors for sex.

Snead was arrested on May 26, 2023. He is charged with one count of criminal solicitation of a minor (§16-15-342), a felony offense punishable by up to 10 years imprisonment. 

Mitchell was arrested on May 29, 2023. He is charged with one count of criminal solicitation of a minor (§16-15-342), a felony offense punishable by up to 10 years imprisonment.

Both of these cases will be prosecuted by the Attorney General's Office.

Attorney General Wilson stressed all defendants are presumed innocent unless and until they are proven guilty in a court of law.