State Rep Brett Easterbrook Arrested School Board President Too Inside The Alabama Sting

An Alabama state representative and a school board president walked into the same booking system the same week — and the school board president drew the heavier charge.

Atmore police ran a three-day undercover operation, Oct. 1-3, at a hotel whose name the department is withholding “for the priority of the investigation.” Online ads, seven agencies, seventeen arrests for trafficking and solicitation. Three of the seventeen were public officials. One of them writes state law.

Rep. Brett Easterbrook, R-District 65, has held his House seat since 2018, spanning Washington, Clarke and Baldwin counties. Court documents allege he paid $500 to someone he believed was 19 or younger. He was charged with first-degree human trafficking and soliciting.

Then the district attorney amended the charge down to attempted trafficking. The stated reason: there were no real victims — everyone on the other side was an undercover officer.

Kory Wesley, president of the Satsuma City School Board, was charged with first-degree human trafficking and attempting to elude. He resigned after the arrest. The board he chaired oversaw budgets, hiring and the leadership of a public school district. His charge was not amended.

Timothy Tucker, Orange Beach’s public works director, was charged with soliciting. The city confirmed he is no longer employed there.

The amendment on the lawmaker’s charge while the school board president’s stood untouched is the part of this story that will keep drawing scrutiny. Easterbrook’s district has not said whether he’ll keep his seat. Court dates for all three men are ahead.

Seventeen booking photos. One hotel. Three public chairs suddenly empty — and a question every district in Alabama is quietly asking: who else is one ad away from this?