Former police officer captured by US Marshals www.privateofficer.com
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Birmingham AL. Sept 18 2008
By: Rick McCann
Ntl. Assoc. Private Officers
Authorities have captured a former police officer after they say that he fled the area while out on bond on charges of child porn and other felony charges.
The former Vestavia Hills and Anniston police officer who evaded authorities now sits in the Shelby County Jail on federal charges of child endangerment, sexual abuse of a child under 12, rape and sodom
Ronald L. Whitworth Jr., 35, was booked and processed on Sept. 11, according to sheriff’s officials. Shelby County deputies arrested Whitworth in April. He spent six days in jail before he was released on $260,000 bond.
The Secret Service searched Whitworth’s home in May, when authorities discovered child pornography on Whitworth’s computer. A federal grand jury later indicted Whitworth on charges of possessing child pornography and transporting a minor across state lines.
According to police, Whitworth then fled to Los Angeles and Lynnwood, Wash., where he was captured on Aug. 18 by the U.S. Marshal Service Fugitive Task Force.
On Monday, Chief U.S. Magistrate Judge Paul Greene denied Whitworth bond during a detention hearing in Birmingham. Greene also deemed Whitworth a flight risk and a danger to the community and ordered him held until his trial.
The former Vestavia Hills and Anniston police officer who evaded authorities now sits in the Shelby County Jail on federal charges of child endangerment, sexual abuse of a child under 12, rape and sodom
Ronald L. Whitworth Jr., 35, was booked and processed on Sept. 11, according to sheriff’s officials. Shelby County deputies arrested Whitworth in April. He spent six days in jail before he was released on $260,000 bond.
The Secret Service searched Whitworth’s home in May, when authorities discovered child pornography on Whitworth’s computer. A federal grand jury later indicted Whitworth on charges of possessing child pornography and transporting a minor across state lines.
According to police, Whitworth then fled to Los Angeles and Lynnwood, Wash., where he was captured on Aug. 18 by the U.S. Marshal Service Fugitive Task Force.
On Monday, Chief U.S. Magistrate Judge Paul Greene denied Whitworth bond during a detention hearing in Birmingham. Greene also deemed Whitworth a flight risk and a danger to the community and ordered him held until his trial.
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