Alamance County man arrested in Georgia on child exploitation charges
An Alamance County man was arrested in Winder, Georgia, after a January child-exploitation probe. Timonty Yang now awaits extradition on two felony charges.
A 20-year-old Alamance County man is in custody in Georgia after a months-long child-exploitation investigation that began in January and crossed state lines before ending with a U.S. Marshals Service arrest in Winder.
Investigators with the Invictus Task Force identified Timonty Yang as a suspect and charged him on May 8 with one felony count of indecent liberties with a minor and one felony count of dissemination to minors under 16. Yang was taken into custody on Friday, May 29, in Winder, and he is now awaiting extradition back to Alamance County. The investigation remains active.
The case underscores how child-exploitation probes often depend on cooperation between local, state and federal agencies when a suspect is not in the county where the case started. In this case, the arrest required the U.S. Marshals Service to locate and detain Yang in Georgia before North Carolina authorities could bring him back to face the charges filed in Alamance County.
Georgia has repeatedly used multi-agency operations to target online child exploitation, offering a glimpse of the scale and complexity of these investigations. In February 2025, the Georgia Bureau of Investigation said Operation Byte Down led to 17 arrests and involved 33 other agencies in the Georgia Internet Crimes Against Children Task Force. That operation also identified 13 children living in homes where online child sexual exploitation was occurring.
A separate statewide effort, Operation Sneaky Peach, resulted in 26 arrests over an eleven-day period in August 2023. The Georgia Bureau of Investigation said that operation included 34 residential search warrants and three additional enforcement actions across 28 Georgia counties, and investigators identified 30 children living in households where online child sexual exploitation was occurring.
For Alamance County, the Yang case is another example of how digital evidence and interstate coordination can move quickly from an investigation to an arrest far from home. Local deputies and federal marshals are now working through the extradition process as the criminal case continues in North Carolina.
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