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October 7, 2009
Citing an “unexpected change in the trial docket,” U.S. District Judge Harry Barnes has pushed back the sentencing date of evangelistic cult leader Tony Alamo — facing up to 175 years in prison after a ten-count conviction for taking minors across state lines for sex — to Friday, November 13, 2009.
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September 16, 2009A federal judge in Texarkana, Ark., has set an Oct. 23 sentencing date for evangelist Tony Alamo, who was convicted in July on child-sex charges. U.S. District Judge Harry Barnes set the sentencing date Monday. A jury convicted Alamo of transporting minors across state lines for sex. He faces up to 175 years in prison.
From the Commercial Appeal.
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August 14, 2009The U.S. government filed a response Thursday to Tony Alamo’s motion for a new trial, denying reasons exist to give the recently convicted child sex abuser another shot at justice.
More at the Texarkana Gazette.
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July 31, 2009Tony Alamo’s defense team has filed a motion requesting a new trial. …
The motion, signed by Jeff Harrelson of Texarkana, said Alamo did not get a fair trial for a variety of reasons.
Among the defense’s complaints is that the jury was prejudiced by testimony concerning Alamo’s sexual relationships with adult women, his prior felony conviction for tax evasion and the alleged physical abuse of women living in his home.
More at the Texarkana Gazette.
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July 24, 2009
A federal jury has convicted evangelist Tony Alamo on charges he took underage girls across state lines for sex.The jury issued its judgment Friday in federal court in Texarkana. The jury found the 74-year-old Alamo guilty of all counts he faced. …
Alamo had denied the charges, claiming they came from a Vatican-led conspiracy against his ministry. His apocalyptic tracts outline his hatred of the Vatican and his feared “one-world government.” The Southern Poverty Law Center considers his ministry a “cult.”
More at KATV.
June 4, 2009
An attorney said Wednesday that he plans to publish a notice in a newspaper as early as next week giving the man accused of being Tony Alamo’s “enforcer” 30 days to respond to a lawsuit or risk having a judgment entered against him.The lawsuit was filed in U.S. District Court in Texarkana in November by Spencer Ondrisek and Seth Calagna, both 18 at the time, against Alamo and John Kolbeck, who authorities say administered beatings on Alamo’s behalf.
Ondrisek and Calagna, who both left the ministry last year, say Kolbeck beat them with a wooden board at Alamo’s direction. But the teenagers’ attorney, W. David Carter of Texarkana, Texas, said he has been unable to find Kolbeck to serve him with a copy of the lawsuit.
Federal authorities can’t find Kolbeck either — he is wanted on a second-degree battery charge in connection with Calagna’s beating and on a federal charge of unlawful flight to avoid prosecution. …
More at the Arkansas Democrat-Gazette.
May 14, 2009
A follower of jailed evangelist Tony Alamo has pleaded guilty to a federal charge of failing to register as a sex offender.Jonathon Patrick Curry pleaded guilty to the charge Thursday in federal court at Fort Smith. Forty-nine-year-old Curry could face a maximum sentence of 10 years in prison and a $250,000 fine. …
More from the Washington Post.
May 08, 2009
Tony Alamo’s criminal trial has been rescheduled for July 13. …[Alamo's defense lawyer Danny Davis] filed a motion earlier this week requesting the May 18 trial date be postponed four months citing a need for more time to investigate and locate witnesses. …
Alamo is facing a 10-count federal indictment in the Western District of Arkansas accusing him of bringing young girls across state lines for sex.
More at the Texarkana Gazette.
April 21, 2009
As it defends itself against a lawsuit filed by Tony Alamo Christian Ministries and two of its members, the Arkansas Department of Human Services is seeking to keep information about its investigation into the treatment of ministry children confidential.The lawsuit, filed earlier this month in U.S. District Court in Texarkana, claims that the Human Services Department has infringed on members’ religious freedoms by removing children from the ministry and requiring parents to sever ties with the church to get their children back.
The suit seeks an order preventing the department from taking any more children from the ministry and stopping the department from “deprogramming” the 36 children already in foster care. The ministry also wants the department to seek changes in the children’s foster care plans so the parents are no longer required to move off church property and find jobs outside the ministry. …
If the order is granted, some records would be filed under seal, while other court documents may only have portions redacted, Human Services Department spokesman Julie Munsell said. …
More at the Arkansas Democrat-Gazette.
April 17, 2009
A sex offender arrested at a Tony Alamo Christian Ministries property in Fort Smith earlier this year is scheduled to change his not-guilty plea to a federal charge of failing to register as a sex offender next month in U.S. District Court in Fort Smith.Jonathan Patrick Curry was released from a Nevada prison in November 2007 after serving more than five years on a conviction for attempted lewdness with a child younger than 14, which required him to register as a sex offender for life, according to an affidavit filed in the case against Curry.
An arrest warrant was issued for Curry in Nevada in June 2008 after it was determined that he failed to register as a sex offender after being released from prison. …
Curry was scheduled to go to trial Wednesday, but the trial was canceled and a change of plea hearing was scheduled for May 13. …
More at the Southwest Times Record.
March 19, 2009
The new defense lawyer for jailed evangelist Tony Alamo said Thursday that his client’s poor eyesight and diminishing physique would have made it impossible for him to have had sex with underage girls, as federal prosecutors claim.California lawyer Danny Davis told The Associated Press that “it would be physically impossible” for the 74-year-old man to have sex with girls in showers and buses — accusations lodged by authorities who arrested Alamo on Sept. 25. …
Alamo faces a 10-count federal indictment accusing him of transporting young girls across state lines for sex. …
More via Rick Ross.
January 29, 2009
Tony Alamo’s voice crackled from a speakerphone as four people prepared to beat him on the evangelist’s behalf, Jeremiah Justin Miller recalled in court.Miller said he bled after being struck 140 times with a wooden paddle. His sins: asking a science question during a history class and, without permission, wearing a metal-studded leather scarf Alamo had designed.
“He said that I was a goat among the sheep and he was going to have to beat the devil out of me,” Miller told a California courtroom three years after the 1988 incident at Alamo’s religious compound north of Los Angeles.
By 1995, prosecutors dropped child abuse charges against Alamo, who said Miller, then 11, exaggerated his tale. The evangelist, now facing federal Mann Act charges in Arkansas, said Miller was an unruly child who needed to be disciplined. …
Miller’s case, which saw no action since 1995, sprang back to life when Douglas Christopher walked into a Santa Clarita, Calif., courthouse last week and turned himself in. Christopher, 55, faces an initial hearing Friday morning in municipal court over two felony charges from the 1988 beating, said Shiara Davila, a spokeswoman for the Los Angeles County District Attorney’s Office. …
More via Rick Ross.
January 15, 2009
A convicted sex offender who lived on property owned by Tony Alamo Christian Ministries went before a federal magistrate Wednesday, charged with failing to register as a sex offender.Jonathon Patrick Curry, 49, was arrested Tuesday on a warrant charging him with failing to register or update registration as a sex offender, a news release from the U.S. attorney’s office in Fort Smith said. …
If convicted of failing to register as a sex offender, Curry could be sentenced to up to 10 years in prison and fined up to $250,000.
An affidavit submitted by FBI Special Agent Timmy K. Akins said Curry was released from a Nevada prison on Nov. 20, 2007, after serving nearly seven years on a conviction for attempted lewdness with a child under 14.
Akins’ affidavit shows that Curry told Akins in November that he lived in a warehouse in Fort Smith. Akins saw a room in the warehouse that was labeled “Keep Out Jon Curry’s Rm.” …
Alamo, the 74-year-old leader of a multistate ministry with headquarters in Fouke, was arrested Sept. 25 outside a resort hotel in Flagstaff, Ariz. He faces charges in federal court of transporting a minor across state lines for sexual purposes.
More at the Arkansas Democrat-Gazette.
From the Texarkana Gazette:
Federal officials raided the Tony Alamo Christian Ministries Church and neighboring homes Saturday in Fouke, Ark., about 12 miles southeast of Texarkana.Among other things, authorities said they were investigating reports of child pornography. …
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