The Madison County Sheriff’s Office is asking for the public’s help in locating 33-year-old Shawn Allen, a white male who stands at 5’5 and 145 pounds. Allen is wanted for Sexual Assault of a Child and Trafficking of a Minor and is known to frequent the Madisonville and Midway areas. Anyone with information on where we can locate Allen, please call the Madison County Sheriff’s Office at 936-348-2755 or dial 9-1-1. MCSO included the following in their Facebook post this week: “Anyone who assist Allen in eluding us, offering him a place to sleep, a car to drive or food to eat, will also be charged with TXPC: 38.05. Hindering Apprehension or Prosecution (F3) which states;

“(a) A person commits an offense if, with intent to hinder the arrest, prosecution, conviction, or punishment of another for an offense or, with intent to hinder the arrest, detention, adjudication, or disposition of a child for engaging in delinquent conduct that violates a penal law of the state, or with intent to hinder the arrest of another under the authority of a warrant or capias, he:

(1) harbors or conceals the other;

(2) provides or aids in providing the other with any means of avoiding arrest or effecting escape; or

(3) warns the other of impending discovery or apprehension.

(d) An offense under this section is a felony of the third degree.”

***Allen is innocent until proven in guilty in a court of law. All booking photos and identifiers are public information.***”