NWAnews
March 4, 2009
BY ANDY DAVIS

2 moms in Alamo case fear for kids

Arkansas Democrat-Gazette/STATON BREIDENTHAL Antavia Meggs (foreground) has not seen three of her children since the Tony Alamo Christian Ministries was raided in September. She left the children in care of a church member and his wife who disappeared.

When the Tony Alamo Christian Ministries compound in southwest Arkansas was raided in September, an Oklahoma woman who once belonged to the group called everyone she could think of, hoping she might be closer to finding the four children she says her husband ran off with in 2004.

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Mercury News
March 12, 2009
The Associated Press

Hearing set over 1988 abuse case involving Alamo

LOS ANGELES—Officials say a follower of jailed Arkansas evangelist Tony Alamo will have a preliminary hearing March 27 over charges stemming from the 1988 beating of an 11-year-old boy.

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The Associated Press
March 15, 2009
By JON GAMBRELL

New lawyer signals new strategy in Alamo case

LITTLE ROCK, Ark. (AP) — California lawyer Danny Davis has wanted to separate jailed evangelist Tony Alamo from the abuse allegations that trail his ministry.

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Texarkana Gazette
March 20, 2009
By: Lynn LaRowe

Judge gives Alamo deadline to find attorney in civil case

Jailed evangelist Tony Alamo has 30 days to find a new lawyer to represent him in a civil suit filed by two former church members, U.S. District Judge Harry Barnes said this week.

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Texarkana Gazette
March 19, 2009
By: Associated Press

Lawyer has 90 days to find alleged Alamo enforcer

LITTLE ROCK—A lawyer who filed a civil lawsuit against Tony Alamo has 90 days to track down the man who reportedly served as the jailed evangelist’s enforcer, even though the man being sought has successfully eluded arrest on state and federal warrants for months.

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NWAnews.com
March 19, 2009
BY ANDY DAVIS

Teens given longer time to serve suit

A judge’s ruling Wednesday gives two teenagers an extra three months to find the man they say beat them while they were members of the Tony Alamo Christian Ministries and serve him with a copy of their lawsuit.

But the teenagers’ attorney, W. David Carter of Texarkana, Texas, said he doesn’t expect to wait that long to move forward with the lawsuit, which seeks damages against the ministry’s leader, Tony Alamo, and John Kolbeck, whom authorities have identified as Alamo’s “enforcer.”

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Fox 16
March 20, 2009
AP Interview

Lawyer says Alamo couldn’t do crimes

LITTLE ROCK, Ark. (AP) – Poor eyesight and a diminishing physique would prevent Tony Alamo from crossing state lines and having sex with underage girls, a new defense lawyer for the jailed evangelist said Thursday.

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Crime Scene KC
March 20, 2009
by James Hart

Evangelist’s lawyer says he’s too puny to have sex with teenage girls

Tony Alamo, the evangelist accused of having sex with underage girls, has a new defense attorney, and that attorney is rolling out an interesting defense:

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NWAnews
March 23, 2009
BY ANDY DAVIS

Alamo changes defense attorneys

Defense attorney Danny Davis became famous for his work in the McMartin Preschool case in Manhattan Beach, Calif., which drew national publicity in the 1980s for its allegations of satanic rituals, secret rooms and mass molestations of children.

Davis is now representing evangelist Tony Alamo, who also faces lurid and widely publicized allegations of abuse. But Davis said he sees few similarities between Alamo’s case and the one against McMartin Preschool worker Raymond Buckey, which ended with prosecutors dropping charges in 1990 and spawned an HBO movie.

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The Arkansas Leader
March 25, 2009
By GARRICK FELDMAN

Alamo ploy is an effort to hide past

With all the economic problems around us, you may not have noticed that the imprisoned evangelist Tony Alamo is about to go to trial on child-abuse charges.

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