A former youth football coach recently accepted a plea agreement on charges of producing and possessing obscene materials.          

Former DeKalb County youth football coach Ronald Berry, age 52, has recently entered into a plea agreement on the charges of possessing and producing obscene materials. Berry was sentenced by Circuit Judge Jeremy Taylor to a ten year split-sentence – meaning that he will have to serve two years of the sentence, followed by five years probation.

At the time that crime occurred last October (2014), Sheriff Jimmy Harris said investigators determined that Berry was allegedly producing pornographic materials inside his home; he was arrested after investigators seized computers and cell phones from the residence.

Berry coached defense for an eleven and twelve year old Plainview football team which had no affiliation with the school.

In addition to prison time, he was ordered to pay $1,500 in attorney's fees, along with court costs and a bail bond fee.

He will remain in the DeKalb County Detention Center, until his transfer to a Department of Corrections facility.

(Ft Payne Times-Journal)