Police nab church parking lot burglar through witness
FOREST — Separate incidents of vehicle burglaries in area church parking lots set off an investigation recently that resulted in one arrest last week. Argelis Pena, 17, of East Third St., Forest, was charged as an adult with felony auto burglary. Forest Police Chief Robert Roncali praised the work of his officers in keeping watch over church
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Man allegedly breaks into church to view porn
AMES, Iowa (AP) – Second-degree burglary charges have been filed against an Ames man who broke into a church where he allegedly used the institution's electronic equipment to watch pornography. Police allege 55-year-old Charles E. Bentley broke into the First Christian Church on Thursday.
Burglar attacks Connellsville priest at Immaculate Conception
A Roman Catholic priest at Immaculate Conception Church was assaulted when he apparently walked in on a burglary in progress at the Connellsville rectory last week, a church spokesman said today. The Rev. Joseph Bonafed was treated and released at Highlands Hospital in Connellsville after he was struck
First Rifle suspect sentenced in 2009 Rifle church burglaries
GLENWOOD SPRINGS, Colorado — The first defendant to plead guilty in connection to a string of burglaries that occurred at several business and churches in Rifle last year received a gift from prosecutors and a judge Thursday. Gemini G. Billington, 19, pleaded guilty to second-degree burglary and
Ex-church worker arrested on burglary charges
SHREVEPORT, La. (AP) – A former church maintenance worker in Shreveport has been arrested on suspicion of stealing items from the church property and selling some of them on eBay. Twenty-5-year-old John Freeman was arrested Tuesday and booked into jail on burglary charges. Freeman allegedly used
Church member thwarts burglary in Des Moines
A staff member of First United Methodist Church in Des Moines secured four pieces of conduit pipe and two spools of wire that apparently were about to be stolen. Police said the attempted burglary occurred on Sunday, not long after services. They said a man was spotted carrying the items outside. He
One-Of-A-Kind Chalice Stolen From Howard Beach Church
Friday morning, Father Robert Keighron discovered his chalice was missing. "It's a little disheartening,” said Keighron of the Church of Saint Helens. “It's saddening to think that there are people who want to hurt the church." Police say sometime between Thursday afternoon
MPD officers arrest alleged theft at synagogue
MADISON (WKOW) — Madison Police arrested a 44-year-old man for allegedly trying to burglarize a downtown synagogue. An employee at Beth Israel Center on Mound St. was working early into Sunday morning when she heard someone in the basement. She called police, who arrived to find a burglary in
Churches burglarized in Hernando and six other counties
SPRING HILL – Local pastors are fretting over the increasing number of church burglaries occurring up and down a seven-county region. Since July, several churches in Hernando, Citrus, Alachua, Levy, Lake, Marion and Sumter counties have been burglarized, authorities said. Since Nov. 8, a total
Repeat intruder targets church in Missouri City
MISSOURI CITY, TX (KTRK) — "No fear of God." That's how a pastor describes a crook that's been breaking into his church over and over again. The First Missouri City Seventh Day Adventist Church has been broken into so many times, the pastor and his wife decided it was up to them
Church theft suspects nabbed
ATTLEBORO – Two suspects were arraigned Wednesday and a third faces charges in connection with the theft and attempted theft of copper downspouts from two North Attleboro churches and copper spools from the North Attleboro Fire Department. Zachary M. Anderson, 24, who lives with his grandmother
Churchgoers Accused Of Robbing Church
Two men are in custody after allegedly breaking into a Huntington church they attended and stealing property from the youth ministers, a sheriff’s investigator said Thursday. Sebastian County authorities investigating a burglary of the Huntington Assembly of God, 201 E. Broadway St., and a break-in
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Rash of Jackson church burglaries ends
The spate of church burglaries that plagued Jackson for more than a month seems to have stopped since the arrests of two men on Feb. 4. Meanwhile, the Mississippi Bureau of Investigation has determined that it is unlikely the burglaries are related to 70 unsolved church robberies that took place two
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Break-in at church won’t stop celebration
Greenwood’s oldest Catholic church doesn’t plan to let a Friday night break-in put a damper on the celebration today of its 100th anniversary. “They didn’t get anything important,” said the Rev. Jason Welle as he surveyed the scene Saturday morning at Immaculate Heart of
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Men draw probation in north Bibb church burglary
Three men sentenced Wednesday for their involvement in the burglary of a Bass Road church will spend no time in prison as long as they pay nearly $50,000 in restitution and don’t violate the terms of their probations. Matthew Patrick Brown, 22, and Benjamin Ryan Brantley, 19, pleaded guilty to
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