NC - Former New Hanover Co. Sheriff's Deputy (Jarmal Akfpon Flood) charged with sex crimes against children

Jarmal Akfpon Flood

Original Article

02/24/2012

HOKE COUNTY (WECT) - A former sheriff's deputy in New Hanover County is charged with numerous felony sex crimes against children in Hoke County, according to a news release from the sheriff's department there.

Jarmal Akfpon Flood was arrested this week in Pender County where he lives.

Deputies say that a father brought two juvenile victims to the Hoke County Sheriff's Office in October to report that Flood had sexually abused them between September 2005 and July 2006.

Flood was terminated from the New Hanover County Sheriff's Office in 2004, according to the release. While investigating, deputies say they learned Flood committed sex crimes against another child in Brunswick County. In 2009, Flood pleaded guilty in Brunswick County to two counts of sexual offense in a parental role.

Pender deputies say after investigating there, they learned Flood was using a social networking site as a registered sex offender.

Flood is charged with one count of felony first degree rape of a child, two counts of first degree sex offense of a child, two counts of felony first degree sex exploitation of a minor, felony sex offense in a parental role and seven counts of felony indecent liberties with a child.

Flood is currently in the Hoke County Detention Center under a $1 million secured bond.