Methodist pastor & school administrator arrested & charged in sodomite park sting

Alton Ed Rogers, a Gadsden minister who was one of the men arrested during a recent police sting operation at Gadsden's Moragne Park and other park properties, pleaded guilty to a public lewdness charge, the Gadsden Times reports.

After his arrest, the 59-year-old Rogers resigned as an administrator at the Marshall Christian Academy in Albertville, according to the Gadsden Times report. Rogers and all of the men arrested were ordered to stay out of Gadsden's parks. http://www.marshallchristianacademy.com/index.php

Another of the men arrested, Terry Clyde Helms of Lineville, was a youth minister at a church in Lineville at the time of his arrest. He also has resigned, according to the Gadsden Times.