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 [...]
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Former pastor denies sex abuse charges
February 27th, 2009 · No Comments · News
CHARLESTON, W.Va. — Over and over again Thursday, Sandy Martin Cook denied any sexual impropriety with three teenage boys in the 1990s while he served as pastor for the Shrewsbury Church of God.
Each time defense attorney James Cagle asked him about the allegations made by the alleged victims, Cook, 49, shook his head and denied [...]
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Former Pastor becomes Fake Doctor and gets arrested
February 27th, 2009 · No Comments · News
To Timothy Lucas, it sounded like easy money.
All he had to do was let a doctor give him a physical exam and he would earn $50 — no small amount for the homeless Lexington man.
Instead, Lucas became one of an unknown number of people allegedly duped by a man posing as a doctor doing medical [...]
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Self-proclaimed pastor gets 8 years for fraud
February 26th, 2009 · No Comments · News
Benjamin J. Seigler claimed to have earned $40 million as a solo investor. He told clients he had “more gold chains than Mr. T,” bought mansions and owned 10 cars.
But the truth was that Seigler lived in a small apartment, had no income and himself had been swindled by the same scheme he had perpetrated [...]
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