Police arrested a suspect Thursday in a shooting at a North Hollywood synagogue last year that left two people wounded.
Christopher Littlejohn, 37, was initially arrested by SWAT officers in a separate assault case in Beverly Hills on July 23 in which he pointed a gun at a person in a residential neighborhood, Beverly Hills Police Sgt. Shan Davis said.
LAPD Lt. John Romero said Littlejohn, of Northridge, was later arrested and booked on suspicion of attempted murder in connection with the Oct. 29 shooting in North Hollywood and is being held in lieu of $2-million bail.
Littlejohn is believed to have shot two congregants in the underground garage of Adat Yeshurun Valley Sephardic Synagogue. The wounded men were Maor Ben-Nissan, 37, and Allen Lasry, 38, who were both struck in the leg.
Posted By rodneypires on April 18, 2010
Category: Assault, Church Shootings, Uncategorized
Tags: Church Shootings
A former church counselor has admitted sexually assaulting five children and faces at least 10 years in prison.
Brad Boda pleaded guilty Friday in Boulder County. The former Rocky Mountain High School counselor admitted assaulting five children in 1998, four boys and one girl. At the time, Boda was a church counselor in Longmont.
The plea agreement calls for Boda to spend the rest of his life on probation in a sex-offender monitoring program.
Victims told investigators that the assaults took place on church trips, in the church basement, in a neighbor’s home and at Boda’s family cabin.
Boda will be sentenced June 30.
Posted By rodneypires on April 18, 2010
Category: Assault
Tags: Church Vandalism, Sex Crimes
A former pastor will serve three years probation for lying to federal agents who investigated an arson at the Sunflower Missionary Baptist Church in Leavenworth.
39-year old Marvin Clay of Leavenworth pleaded guilty to one count of misprision of a felony. In his plea, he admitted that when he was interviewed by federal agents investigating an Oct. 31, 2008, fire at Sunflower Missionary Baptist Church, he concealed the fact he knew co-defendant Carva Lee White had set the fire.
Clay admitted that about a week before the fire, White described how he intended to start a fire at the church. Because the church had fire insurance, White told Clay, they could profit by finding a contractor who would inflate repair bids and pay them kickbacks.
On Nov. 1, 2008, Clay told agents of the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives that he didn’t know who set the fire.
Last month, co-defendant Carva Lee White was sentenced to 150 months in federal prison.
Posted By rodneypires on April 13, 2010
Category: Church Arson
Tags: Church Burglary
TORONTO — The 55-year-old pastor of a Toronto church at the centre of allegations of gang sexual assault was arrested on separate charges Monday.
Pastor Jae-Kap Song was charged with inappropriate touching of a woman who was renting an apartment he owned and also attended this church. Police said the incident happened in February.
The pastor’s indictment comes as the church is embroiled in separate alleged sex crimes which police say involve gang rape.
The two cases are separate.
Eight former parishioners of Song’s Canada’s Jesus First Church congregation, six men and two women, are accused of child porn and administering drugs for sex.
Last week six men were arrested and charged for a series of gang sexual assaults on women and one young girl they allegedly met through the Korean community church.
Over the weekend two women were also arrested. The men in custody were also charged with making child pornography involving the underage girl. Three other women are believed to have been violently assaulted over the past several months.
“It is a series of events that took place from fall of 2009 to February 2010. Six men participated in gang sexual assaults against four women,” said Const. Boyd Li last week. “We believe they are (members of the church).”
Posted By rodneypires on April 13, 2010
Category: Sex Crimes
Tags: Sex Crimes
A former daycare director at a macon church has been charged with more than 400 counts of forgery and theft. Right now, Paula Cowan is out on bond for one count of theft back in 2008 when the investigation first started. But as the investigation grew, so did the charges against her.
Page after Page of copies of forged checks will be used as evidence against Cowan, who is the former director of daycare at Riverside United Methodist Church in Macon.
An arraignment date for Cowan to plead guilty or not guilty has not been set. If the case goes to trial and if she is found guilty on all counts, prosecutors say she could face up to 5,500 years behind bars, along with paying back the stolen money.
Posted By rodneypires on April 8, 2010
Category: Church Embezzlement, Church Theft
Tags: Church Embezzlement, Church Theft
BERGEN COUNTY NJ – Reverend Justin Oliver, Pastor of the Willows Baptists Church in Willows Township New Jersey was brutally beaten by an unknown assailant Monday night.
The attack took place inside the church, in the Pastor’s office, a Willows Township Police Department spokesperson said.
The Pastor’s injuries are extensive but he is expected to make a full recovery.
New Jersey clergyman linked to pregnant HS track star.
Posted By rodneypires on April 8, 2010
Category: Assault
Tags: Assaults
CHINO, Calif. — Prosecutors say the former administrator of Calvary Chapel Chino Hills embezzled nearly $1 million.
Farrukh Ahmed has been charged with felony grand theft with embezzlement and felony grand theft of personal property. The 48-year-old Ontario man was arrested in December and he posted $50,000 bail.
Calvary Chapel pastor Jack Hibbs says up to $960,000 was stolen from the church.
Posted By rodneypires on April 8, 2010
Category: Church Embezzlement
Tags: Church Embezzlement
April 5, 2010 - SACRAMENTO, CALIF. — Authorities say two women stole thousands of dollars from collection plates at an Easter church service in Sacramento.
The alleged theft took place around 11:20 a.m. Sunday. The Church of the Nazarene on Arden Way was packed for the Easter sermon.
The women were allegedly spotted in a church office but were gone before church officials were able to verify their identities. They allegedly took between $10,000 and $20,000. No arrests have been made.
Posted By rodneypires on April 5, 2010
Category: Church Burglary
Tags: Church Burglary
Collinsville police are investigating a case of church vandalism after someone spray-painted offensive markings on the front of the Gathering Place Church in the 2000 block of Keebler Road.
Church members discovered the vandalism just hours before Easter services, which also happened to be the first services in the church’s new home. The church purchased the building from the Collinsville Jaycees last month. Since then, an army of volunteers has been working day and night getting the church ready in time for Easter Services.
In the end, the church community did celebrate Easter. But only after an hour of additional early morning clean-up work on the church’s brand new siding.
Collinsville police say they’ll likely investigate the vandalism as a hate crime.
Posted By rodneypires on April 5, 2010
Category: Church Vandalism, Hate Crimes
Tags: Church Vandalism, Hate Crime
Church Burglary Suspect
The arrest of a Laurel man in Louisiana has produced a suspect in approximately 30 church burglaries in Mississippi, including four recent ones in Lincoln and Franklin counties, authorities said Thursday.
Morris confessed to over 30 different church burglaries in Mississippi.
Posted By rodneypires on April 2, 2010
Category: Church Burglary
Tags: Church Burglary
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