Crime & Safety
Child Sex Crimes Charges For St. Louis Man Arrested At Hartsfield
U.S. Marshalls arrest Navy reservist Ephriam Granderson at Atlanta's airport on 12 counts of child sex crimes charges from '93 to '03.
ATLANTA — A U.S. Navy reservist arrested Wednesday at Hartsfield-Jackson Atlanta International Airport was charged with 12 counts of sex crimes with children, according to reports.
Ephriam Phillip Granderson, 52, is accused by St. Louis County Prosecuting Attorney Wesley Bell of sexually assaulting three minor victims over a 10-year period beginning in 1993, the St. Louis Dispatch reports.
St. Louis County Prosecutor @WesleyBell4STL announced in a press conference outside the Justice Center just now that his office charged a man currently deployed in the military for sexually assaulting multiple children in the 1990s.
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The victims at the time were between the ages of 9 and 16, according to St. Louis CBS affiliate KMOV.
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Bell’s office began independently investigating the case in 2020 when someone familiar with one of the victims came forward.
U.S. Marshalls arrested Granderson on Wednesday at Hartsfield-Jackson.
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