Childs pleads guilty to conspiracy to commit fraud; awaits sentencing

Business owner, former bank officer charged

The former market president of a local bank recently entered a guilty plea in federal court to the charge of conspiracy to commit bank fraud.

Alan Childs entered his guilty plea April 16 in the United States District Court for the Middle District of Georgia in Macon and was released on a $20,000 bond.

Sentencing is scheduled Aug. 6.

Childs was represented by Attorney William H. Thomas Jr. The case wa…