Former Alabama deputy pleads guilty to child porn charges
A former Alabama sheriff’s deputy indicted earlier this year on multiple child pornography charges has pleaded guilty and will serve one year in custody, prosecutors said Wednesday. Phillip Wayne Humphries, who was a patrol officer with the Jefferson County Sheriff’s Office, pleaded guilty Monday to 25 counts of possession of obscene material depicting a minor, Attorney General Steve Marshall’s office said in a statement. Humphries, 59, of Trussville, will spend one year in a community corrections program in Jefferson County followed by three years on unsupervised probation, the statement said. He also must register as a sex offender. Humphries was arrested on a single charge of possessing obscene material in 2019 when he resigned after coming under investigation. He had worked as a deputy for about two decades. Republished with the permission of the Associated Press.
Former deputy indicted on child porn charges
A former Alabama sheriff’s deputy has been indicted on about two dozen child pornography charges, authorities said Monday. Phillip Wayne Humphries, 56, of Trussville was indicted by grand jurors in Jefferson County, where he previously worked as a sheriff’s deputy, the attorney general’s office said in a statement. Humphries was arrested on a single charge of possessing obscene material in 2019, when he resigned after coming under investigation. He had worked as a deputy for about two decades. Humphries, who already is free on a bond of $15,000, asked a court to reject a move to increase his bond to $375,000 because of the additional charges, records show. Humphries recently underwent “multiple amputations,” uses a wheelchair and is not a risk to flee, his attorney told a court. An attorney for Humphries did not immediately return an email seeking comment on the indictment. Republished with the permission of the Associated Press.
