By Erik Harris
A 29-year-old Clay-Chalkville High School alumnus has been released from the state prison system’s Childersburg Community Work Center.
Benjamin Moseley was reportedly released this morning after serving his full sentence for charges involving the burning of churches in 2006.
Benjamin Moseley at the time of his arrest in March 2006
photo courtesy of the Shelby County Sheriff’s Office
Four of the churches were burned on Feb. 7, 2006 in Pickens, Sumter and Greene counties, four days after five churches were torched in Bibb County.
Russell Lee DeBusk Jr. and 29-year-old Matthew Cloyd were sentenced along with Moseley to federal and state prison for the stretch of arsons. Their arrests were made in March 2006.
DeBusk pled guilty to the five Bibb County church arsons, while Moseley and Cloyd owned up to the four later burnings.
The three men knew one another as students at Birmingham-Southern College. Cloyd had transferred to UAB by the time the crimes were committed.
Cloyd was released from the Frank Lee Community Work Center on March 20. DeBusk was released from state prison early in 2012.
Moseley began his 97-month sentence at a medium-security Federal Correctional Institution Victorville in Adelanto, Calif. After his release in May 2013, Moseley began a two-year state sentence.
