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Athens County Sheriff’s Sgt. Jimmy Childs arrested in connection to Bellar investigation

>May 21, 2021 Updated 5 hrs ago

Athens County Sheriff Sergeant Jimmy Childs was arrested Friday night in connection to the Athens County Prosecutor’s Office’s sweeping investigation into the Bellar family.

 

Childs, also the Athens County school resource officer, was charged with obstruction of justice and tampering with evidence, both third-degree felonies, according to booking records from the Southeastern Ohio Regional Jail where he is being held.

 

Athens County investigators executed a search warrant in Pike County on Thursday where they recovered the cell phone of Robert Bellar, the indicted father of Serah Bellar who, along with his wife, was charged with a number of felonies related to reports of abetting sexual and physical abuse against children within their household.

 

On Friday, investigators executed a search warrant on the phone in Athens County, and accused Childs of deleting evidence of a phone call he had with Robert and providing false information during the course of the prosecutor’s investigation, Athens County Prosecutor Keller Blackburn said.

 

He was arrested around 6:30 p.m. in Athens and transported to the jail by Nelsonville Police Department, Blackburn said.

 

The prosecutor said the Sheriff’s Office was not involved in the investigation but that Sheriff Rodney Smith was cooperative.

 

Smith declined to comment about the arrest of Childs, but said his office would release a statement on Monday.

 

Childs is set to appear in Athens County Municipal Court at 9:30 a.m. Monday.

 

The Athens Messenger reported Wednesday that both Robert and Serah Bellar were of the belief that Childs was running interference on behalf of the Bellar family, indictment documents and interviews show….