Authorities arrested Joseph Spruell Pounders Thursday morning during an operation involving multiple law enforcement agencies.

The Muscle Shoals Police Department, along with the United States Marshals Gulf Coast Regional Fugitive Task Force and Tuscumbia Police Department detectives, conducted the operation at a residence off Highway 72. Pounders, 49, is a suspect in multiple crimes against children under 12, Muscle Shoals police said.

Pounders was taken into custody without any issues and transported to the Colbert County Jail. He is charged with one count of sexual abuse of a child under the age of 12.

The investigation is ongoing.

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