Harboring Sex Offender/SORNA Arrests 
(Etowah County, Alabama) Two men have been arrested in connection to harboring a sex offender and failing to register, according to Sheriff Todd Entrekin.
“Cameron Wade Wheeler, 21, of Boaz, was arrested and charged with harbor a sex offender, which is a felony,” investigator Stephen McGlathery said.
Wheeler allegedly provided a place for James Thomas Bowman, a registered sex offender with Etowah County, to stay in an attempt to avoid law enforcement officers.
Investigators were at a residence located on Mountainview Drive, Attalla, in an attempt to find Bowman who had a felony warrant against him for failing to comply with the sex offender registration notification act (SORNA).
McGlathery continued, “James Thomas Bowman, 39, of Attalla, was arrested and charged with one count of failure to comply with SORNA, a felony, and resisting arrest, a misdemeanor.”
Wheeler was booked into the Etowah County Detention Center and later released on $2,500 bond. Bowman is detained on a $3,000 bond.
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