8 men arrested in Alabama for arranging to have sex with kids

A total of eight men were arrested during a two-week undercover operation in Alabama, United States. They are accused of arranging to have sex with children.

The West Alabama Human Trafficking Task Force conducted the operation for two weeks with the help of the police departments of Brookwood, Tuscaloosa County, Alabama; Northport, Tuscaloosa County; Tuscaloosa, Tuscaloosa County and the University of Alabama in Tuscaloosa along with the Tuscaloosa County Sheriff’s Office and the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives. Also involved in the investigation was Trafficking Hope, an organization of activists against human trafficking.

Five of the arrestees are from Tuscaloosa, one is from from Northport, one is from Gallion, Hale County, Alabama and one is from Marion, Perry County, Alabama. Here is the list:

1. Efrain Rojo, 25, of Tuscaloosa, was charged with traveling to meet a minor for an unlawful sex act and electronic solicitation of a child.
2. Fletcher Williams, 69, of Tuscaloosa, was charged with traveling to meet a minor for an unlawful sex act and electronic solicitation of a child.
3. Gregg Lee Thomas, 48, of Tuscaloosa, was charged with traveling to meet a minor for an unlawful sex act and electronic solicitation of a child.
4. Isaac Essex, 29, of Marion, was charged with traveling to meet a minor for an unlawful sex act and electronic solicitation of a child.
5. Jalan Lewis,30, of Tuscaloosa, was charged with traveling to meet a minor for an unlawful sex act and electronic solicitation of a child.
6. Lavorian Mobley, 19, of Tuscaloosa, was charged with traveling to meet a minor for an unlawful sex act, transmitting obscene material to a child by computer and electronic solicitation of a child.
7. Kenneth Dylan Williams, 38, of Gallion, was charged with traveling to meet a minor for an unlawful sex act, electronic solicitation of a child and tax stamp required.
8. Kristopher Austin McCracken, 28, of Northport, was charged with traveling to meet a minor for an unlawful sex act, electronic solicitation of a child and transmitting obscene material to a child by computer.

Tuscaloosa is home not only to the University of Alabama but also to Shelton State Community College and Stillman College. The city is a sister city of Narashino, Chiba, Japan; Schorndorf, Baden-Wurttemberg, Germany; Sunyani, Ghana and Techiman, Ghana.