Former Wetumpka pastor denied parole on sex abuse charges
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Garrett Dykes

Almost 20 years ago Elmore County Sheriff Bill Franklin put handcuffs on Garett Dykes, a pastor of a Wetumpka church at the time. Franklin was investigating the story of an 8-year-old who told his mother a pastor had abused him. 

Franklin and then chief deputy Ricky Lowery quietly apprehended Dykes and questioned him about the matter.