May 14, 2025
By: Dwayne Page
Working with federal authorities, the DeKalb County Sheriff’s Department today (Wednesday) assisted in the arrest of a Georgia man in Smithville wanted for Indiana child sex crimes.
47-year-old Michael Andrew Denton of Snapping Shoals Georgia is charged in a fugitive from justice warrant with four counts of child molestation and three counts of child molestation with intercourse. He was booked into the DeKalb County Jail on a $75,000 bond and his court date is May 29. Denton is awaiting extradition to Indiana.
Sheriff Patrick Ray said according to a U.S. Marshal’s media release, “A U.S. Marshal’s Task Force in Tennessee working a collateral lead from the U.S. Marshal’s Service in Indiana today (Wednesday) arrested a man wanted in Indianapolis, Indiana for multiple sex crimes against children. The warrant for Denton’s arrest was issued in the superior court of Marion County, Indiana on May 7, 2025”
“On May 9, the Indianapolis metro police department requested the assistance of the US Marshal’s Service Great Lakes Regional Fugitive Task Force in locating and apprehending Denton. Upon developing information, Denton was residing in the Smithville area. The Great Lakes Fugitive Task Force requested the assistance of the U.S. Marshal’s Middle Tennessee Fugitive Task Force and located Denton at a residence on McMinnville Highway in Smithville. Denton was arrested without incident with the assistance of the DeKalb County Sheriff’s Department and taken to the DeKalb County jail”.