MARSHALL COUNTY-Operation Safe Children a Sweep Operation by federal and local law enforcement arrested 11 North Alabama people on an array of sex crimes charges.
Officials with the Marshall County Sheriff’s Office and the U.S. Department of Homeland Security made the arrests on Thursday, April 5 in an effort to round-up suspects charged with sex crimes and other crimes against children.
Authorities arrested eleven people and located one that is incarcerated in another county.
These suspects have all been indicted by a Marshall County grand jury. The operation remains underway and more arrests are expected in the future.
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- Joshua Adam Metzger, 34, of Guntersville – charged with possession of obscene matter.
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- Noah Haden Gregg, 23, of Huntsville – charged with Sodomy in the first degree and rape in the first and second degree.
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- Wilford Barkley Briggs, 29, of Arab – charged with possession of obscene matter.
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- Dylan Dewayne Day, 19, of Albertville – charged with sodomy in the first degree.
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- Jose Maria Cerrillo, 40, of Albertville – charged with sexual abuse of a child under 12 years old.
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- David Lee Smith, 53, of Guntersville – charged with sexual abuse of a child under 12 years old and sodomy in the first degree.
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- Cheryl Danette Storey, 50, of Albertville – charged with second-degree sexual abuse.
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- Juan Angel Hinojosa Maldonado, 38, of Arab – charged with sexual abuse of a child under 12 years old.
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- Heather Cherie Lumpkin, 27, of Albertville – charged with chemical endangerment of a child.
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- Timothy E. Cranford, 32, of Arab – charged with sexual abuse of a child lunder 12 years old.
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- Karli Grace Thomas, 19, of Guntersville – charged with sodomy in the second degree.
