Dissemination of Child Porn Arrest / From the Office of DeKalb County Sheriff Nick Welden:

On November 9th (of a 2023 date) – the DeKalb County Sheriff’s Office Investigations Unit received a tip from the Alabama Law Enforcement Agency’s Internet Crimes Against Children (ICAC) Task Force in conjunction with the National Center for Missing and Exploited Children (NCMEC) that an individual residing in DeKalb County had been involved in disseminating images of child pornography via the social media platform KIK.

After execution of the search warrant, Bradley Ray Hancock (40 from Fyffe) was arrested, and subsequently charged with seven counts of dissemination of child pornography.

DeKalb County Sheriff Nick Welden said of that incident – “I am thankful for the continued partnership between the DeKalb County Sheriff’s Investigations Unit, the ICAC, and the NCMEC. Bringing cases of this nature to a close is of the highest priority at our office.  I’m proud of our investigators, and the hard work they perform daily – on these types of cases, as well as all of the cases that they work.”