West Alabama teachers, police officer charged in child porn investigation where court records say the victims are students

ALICEVILLE, Ala. (WBRC) - Multiple Pickens County Schools students were victimized by their teachers, according to depositions and criminal complaints in an ongoing child pornography and sex abuse investigation.

Antavious Belgrave, Roderick Granger, Winston Bishop, Lakethia Wilkins, and Caminion Gary, who is a police officer and school employee, are charged with dozens of crimes.

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Belgrave, a teacher at Aliceville High School, is charged with multiple offenses, including first-degree sexual abuse and indecent exposure. Both offenses have the high school listed as the “place of occurrence.”

Belgrave is also charged with three counts of use of position for personal gain.

According to court records, he “did intentionally use or cause to be used his official position or office to obtain personal gain for himself by procuring or sending sexually explicit digital photographs to a student, under the said [Belgrave’s] supervisory, disciplinary, or custodial authority, that the said [Belgrave] used said position for the purposes of sexual gratification.”

The offense dates for all the charges against Belgrave are in February 2024.

Granger, also a teacher at Aliceville High School, is charged with six crimes, and is accused of “saving a nude video of a student and sending it to someone else.”

The math teacher is also charged with use position for personal gain. An officer wrote in a deposition that Granger was “changing students [sic] grades for favors.”

The offense dates for Granger’s charges are in January 2026.

Lakethia Wilkins, a teacher at Aliceville Elementary School, is also charged with four crimes and had “possession of several private images of minors in her phone,” according to court records.

Wilkins, like Granger, is accused of failing to report a child was known, or suspected to be the victim of sexual abuse or sexual exploitation. She faces an additional count of the same offense for “fail[ing] to report a private image of a child.”

Gary, an Aliceville Police Officer and Pickens County Schools System employee, is charged with school employee sexual contact. Court records said he “knowingly [had] sexual contact with a student under the age of 19.”

He is also charged with electronic solicitation of a child, transmitting obscene material, possession of child pornography, enticing a child to enter, and sexual abuse.

Court records allege Gary sent pictures of his genitals to a minor through Snapchat, and is accused of “forcing a minor child to sexual contact by forcible compulsion.”

The alleged offenses happened in 2023, according to court records.

Bishop, who also worked at Aliceville High School, gave a 16-year-old marijuana and ecstasy, according to court records. He is charged with distributing/sale drugs to minor, unlawful distribution of a controlled substance, possession of child pornography, and electronic solicitation of a child.

According to court records, Bishop had received an explicit photo from a minor in the summer of 2024. According to a deposition, the victim said Bishop would text back, “but it would be inappropriate text messages.”

WBRC reached out to the Pickens County Schools superintendent about the allegations revealed in court records. The district released the following statement immediately after the arrests:

WBRC also reached out to attorneys for Granger and Wilkins. Belgrave does not yet have an attorney, according to records. Granger’s attorney has yet to reply and Wilkins’ attorney had no comment.

Aliceville Police Chief Tonnie D. Jones said in a statement:

This is a developing story. Stay with WBRC for updates.

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