Missing 11 Year Old Alabama Boy Found, Man Wanted for Child Porn Taken into Police Custody

BOAZ, ALABAMA – Authorities in Boaz, Alabama have found an 11 year old boy who had been reported missing on December 10, the kidnapper suspect was also taken into police custody.

The 5 foot tall, 140 pounds 11 year old boy named Zane Bradley Priest had last been seen in the morning on Monday December 10, in Boaz on Brown Street at around 8:30 a.m., and was found safe in the afternoon that same Monday.

Douglas Brooks Hamilton was a wanted man on charges of producing child pornography. Mr Hamilton was arrested and taken into police custody at a hotel in Collinsville, Alabama. The missing boy he kidnapped was found at the scene in Hamilton’s possession, according to the DeKalb County Sheriff’s Office.

The Boaz Police Department posted on Facebook about Mr Hamilton’s arrest and that the missing boy Zane had been found found in his possession. The department expressed that the child is now safe, and also thanked the DeKalb County Sheriff’s Office and Collinsville Police for their “huge help in this case.”