The office of the sheriff of Autauga County, Alabama, United States conducted a child sex trafficking operation from November 21-22, 2024. The office was assisted by the U.S. Marshals Service, the Covenant Rescue Group, the 19th Circuit District Attorney’s Office and police departments of Montgomery, Montgomery County, Alabama and Prattville, Alabama.
A total of 15 men from Alabama and Georgia, USA were arrested during the operation. Here are their names and their respective residences:
- Aaron Blake Schofield, Lapine, Alabama
- Austin Gill, Bainbridge, Georgia
- Christopher Cheatham, Montgomery, Alabama
- Eric Levail Billups, Montgomery, Alabama
- Horace O’Neal Cooper, Prattville, Alabama
- Jaylen Ahjier Kennedy, Prattville, Alabama
- Jeff Bozeman, Wetumpka, Alabama
- Jefferson Andrews, Greenville, Alabama
- Joshua Guy Harp, Columbus, Georgia
- Ki-shawn Lasagius Quenzel Powell, Tuskegee, Alabama
- Michael Edward Martin, Autaugaville, Alabama
- Michael Len Wright, Montgomery, Alabama
- Parrish Patton, Deatsville, Alabama
- Richard Terrones, Wetumpka, Alabama
- William Gary Denton, Millbrook, Alabama
Gill was charged with traveling to meet a child for an unlawful sex act. The other 14 arrestees were each charged with first-degree human trafficking, electronic solicitation of a child and traveling to meet a child for an unlawful sex act.
The district attorney’s office successfully sought to have the arrestees facing human trafficking charges held without bond under the Aniah’s Law of Alabama. The law was named after Aniah Blanchard, who was killed allegedly by Ibraheem Yazeed in October 2019 in Alabama.
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