FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE

On March 21, 2012, The Mobile County Sheriff’s Office arrested JACOB JOSEPH JOHANSEN with 18 counts of sexual abuse.  The report of abuse was filed by a local school who contacted the Mobile County Sheriff’s Office and Child Advocacy Center.  This morning at approximately 10:00 am, the MCSO along with the US Marshall Service arrested JOHANSEN at his mother’s residence in Irvington.  Both victims of the sexual abuse were under the age of 12 years old and known to him.  The initial report of abuse was filed in January 2012.