A domestic assault charge was filed Thursday against a Rutherford County pastor accused of assaulting his wife, according to reports filed at the sheriff’s office.
Detective Jim Tramel charged Josh Strickland with domestic assault of his wife, Pamela, Feb. 20 at their County Park Lane home.
Strickland is pastor of Creekmont General Baptist Church.
Deputy Brad Lynn reported [...]
Pastor charged with domestic assault
March 2nd, 2009 · No Comments · News
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DMX - Future Pastor - throws food at guard in jail
February 27th, 2009 · No Comments · News
Spending time in solitary confinement apparently didn’t curtail DMX’s anger issues, as he allegedly threw a tray of food at a detention officer on Sunday and may spend a lot more time in prison because of it.
Maricopa County Sherriff Joe Arpaio says DMX (real name Earl Simmons) became angry after being told he couldn’t have [...]
Tags: assault·drugs·felony·jail·pastor·probation·theft
No mercy - call for pedophile Andrew William Dawson-Ryan
February 25th, 2009 · No Comments · News
A REMORSELESS Anglican Church pedophile who systematically abused boys “hundreds of times” must be shown no mercy, say prosecutors.
Prosecutors today told the District Court there was no reason to extend leniency to former Church of England Boys Society youth leader Andrew William Dawson-Ryan.
The 60-year-old’s counsel were hard-pressed to disagree – an hour-long hearing, set down [...]
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Besieged pastor with lewd conduct conviction headed for jail
February 23rd, 2009 · No Comments · News
FULLERTON — The Rev. Willie Holmes, who was mobbed by a group of Hispanic youths Feb. 13 as he and his sons drove up to his Fullerton church, has been ordered to jail to serve a 360-day sentence jail for a probation violation stemming from a lewd conduct conviction, according to news reports.
Holmes, 41, is [...]
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New Trial Slated For Ex-Area Priest
February 19th, 2009 · No Comments · News
Sex abuse conviction overturned
WORCESTER — The Rev. Thomas H. Teczar, a Roman Catholic priest formerly from Worcester, faces a second trial in Texas on charges that he sexually assaulted an 11-year-old boy in 1990.
Rev. Teczar was found guilty by a Texas district judge in 2007 of three counts of aggravated assault of a child [...]
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