Heather Brown

CLEVELAND, Ga. – A White County Sheriff’s Office investigation that started as a missing children report led to the arrest of Dallas and Heather Brown of 233 Whiskey Still Drive in Cleveland on charges of cruelty to children last month.

According to the incident report, Deputy Charles Davis responded to a call at the Brown residence where Heather Brown informed him that her sons, ages 13 and 14, had been missing since noon the previous day. Davis filed a BOLO and returned to the Sheriff’s Office to file a report. Before the report had been completed, Sgt.  A. Sims told Davis to return to the scene and that he would seek an arrest warrant for Heather Brown on a charge of cruelty to children.

The boys were located standing on the corner of Whiskey Still Drive and Tail Race Lane.

According to the report when deputies asked them where they had been, they said their father, Dallas Brown, told them to leave and never come back. They added that they were not allowed in the house but forced to sleep in a metal shed with no electricity, no running water and a rotten floor. The boys said the only food they had was what was served at school and they were forced to go to the bathroom in the woods near the house.

According to the report, the boys also stated that once they slipped into the home through an open window to obtain food but were caught by their father and a padlock was placed on the refrigerator.

Department of Family and Children Services was called to take custody of the children and deputies were informed that DFCS had been called to the home on a similar situation about three years ago.

Dallas Brown was arrested and transported to White County Detention Center.

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