FROM STAFF REPORTS

COLUMBIANA – Thirteen more “Johns” were arrested in an undercover reverse prostitution sting in North Shelby County on Wednesday, Feb. 6, bringing the total number of arrests during “Operation Close Out” to 33 suspects.

The Shelby County Drug Enforcement Task Force carried out Operation Close Out Round 3 in partnership with the Hoover Police Department, following operations on Sept. 20, 2018, and Oct. 18, 2018.

Twenty total offenders were arrested during the first two rounds.

The 13 offenders arrested on Feb. 6 were charged with soliciting prostitution.

Those charged include:

• Mychal Lucino Boyd, 54, of Oxford.
• Brandon Bryant, 46, of Pinson.
• Brandon Fitzgerald Green, 36, of Texas.
• Domingo Hernandez, 29, of Birmingham.
• Michael Jackson, 32, of Leeds.
• Miquel Ledezma, 44, of Alabaster.
• Kenneth McMillian, 26, of Birmingham.
• Lawrence Okoye, 27, of Homewood.
• James Perrin, 50, of Birmingham.
• David Randolph Scott, 65, of Adamsville.
• Charles Dewayne Smith, 39, of Birmingham.
• James Witt, 51, of Hoover.
• Linard Stanley Walker, 32, of Bessemer.

Also arrested during the operation was Jude Christopher Burke, 39, of Houma, Louisiana, charged with unlawful distribution of a controlled substance (LSD), unlawful possession of marijuana and unlawful possession of drug paraphernalia.