Authorities have charged three men with having sex with an underage girl and videotaping her having sex with one of them.
The Rowan County Sheriff’s Office’s Criminal Investigations Division recently began investigating a report that the acts were taking place.
Investigators also discovered the men had given the girl alcohol and they got a search warrant for two apartments at The Grand on Julian apartments on Grandeur Drive.
On Jan. 5, they searched the apartments. In one apartment, detectives found a video tape that showed the victim and a suspect having sex in one of the apartments.
In a search of the other apartment, investigators found a small amount of marijuana and drug paraphernalia.
The men arrested and the charges are:
• Glenn Richard Luisi, II, 23, of 6305 Grandeur Drive; contributing to the delinquency of a minor, felony disseminate obscene material to a minor under 16 years of age, felony first-degree sexual exploitation of a minor, felony third-degree sexual exploitation of a minor, three felony counts of statutory rape, and three felony counts of a statutory sex offense.
Luisi is in the Rowan County jail under a $130,000 secured bond.
• Cody Lee DeRouin, 18, of 5304 Grandeur Drive, Salisbury; possession of marijuana, possession of drug paraphernalia, contributing to the delinquency of a minor, felony disseminate obscene material to a minor under 16 years of age, felony first-degree sexual exploitation of a minor, two felony counts of crimes against nature.
DeRouin is in the Rowan County jail under a $75,000 secured bond.
• Justin Lee Hunter, 20, of 1118 Grave Ave., Kannapolis; two counts of statutory rape and two counts of a statutory sex offense.
Hunter is currently in the Rowan County jail under a $75,000 secured bond.