Federal Prison Term For Gallion Man In Trafficking Case
A Hale County man snared by a West Alabama Human Trafficking Task Force sting operation has been sentenced to 11 years in prison on charges related to attempted sex trafficking and drugs. United States District Judge Anna M. Manasco also sentenced Williams to five years of supervised release.
A press release from the United States Attorney's Office for the Northern District of Alabama stated the task force placed an advertisement on a commercial sex website posing as a 19-year-old woman in Tuscaloosa on Aug. 9, 2024, It was answered the following day by 39-year-ol Kenneth Dylan Williams from the unincorporated community of Gallion in southern Hale County. He then drove over an hour from his home to meet the supposed 19-year-old at a set location in Brookwood. The woman he met was actually a task force undercover operative.
Court papers show a Tuscaloosa police officer searched Williams’s vehicle and recovered a clear plastic bag containing 25 grams of methamphetamine, a loaded Smith & Wesson 9mm pistol, a loaded Sig Sauer 10mm pistol, a black ski mask, and leather gloves.
Williams pleaded guilty to attempted sex trafficking of children and possession with the intent to distribute methamphetamine in Sept. 2025.
The case was brought by Project Safe Childhood, a nationwide initiative launched by the Department of Justice in May 2006 to combat the growing epidemic of child sexual exploitation and abuse.
According to the project's website, it is ed by U.S. Attorneys’ Offices and the Criminal Division’s Child Exploitation and Obscenity Section (CEOS), Project Safe Childhood marshals federal, state, and local resources to locate, apprehend and prosecute individuals who exploit children via the Internet, and to identify and rescue victims.
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