Childersburg couple arrested on drug charges

A Childersburg couple has been arrested on various felony drug and child endangerment charges.  32 year old Rusty Donovan Truex,  and 29 year old Karen Lacresia Truex, were both charged with manufacture of a controlled substance in the first degree, possession of a controlled substance, felony possession of drug paraphernalia and chemical endangerment of a child.  Talladega County Sheriff’s deputies had gone to the couple’s home on Childersburg-Fayetteville Highway to serve misdemeanor warrants on Truex, who apparently saw them coming and began throwing what appeared to be components of a methamphetamine laboratory out the window, in front of the deputies.  Task Force agents discovered there was a 4-year-old child inside the residence where the Truexes were allegedly cooking meth. The child was turned over to the Talladega County Department of Human Resources.  According to Talladega County Sheriff’s Captain Bill Kennedy, the initial warrants against Truex were for sexual misconduct and unlawful imprisonment in the second degree.  Truex was released from jail in June after pleading guilty to attempted extortion. In late 2011, he and a female accomplice set up a fake kidnapping scheme and demanded that the woman’s husband pay Truex $500 or she would be killed. Truex has also pleaded guilty to burglary.