WXVT-TV Delta News
April 8, 2009
Associated Press
Alamo lawyers ask bond to be set
LITTLE ROCK, Ark. (AP) – Lawyers for jailed evangelist Tony Alamo have asked a federal judge to release the minister pending his trial on charges he took young girls across state lines for sex.
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Houston Press Blogs
April 7, 2009
By Richard Connelly
Houston Attorney Represents Another Tarnished Evangelist
Houston attorney Don Ervin has apparently become the go-to guy for (allegedly, allegedly) sleazy televangelists.
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Todays THV
April 7, 2009
Posted By: Monika Rued
Alamo Adds Defense Attorney
Jailed evangelist Tony Alamo has added a third lawyer to help him fight federal charges that he brought juveniles across state lines for sex.
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Texarkana Gazette
April 4, 2009
By Lynn LaRowe
Lawyer: Laws faulty, charges should be dismissed
A motion was filed Friday to dismiss charges against a follower of Tony Alamo Ministries who was arrested on ministry property for allegedly failing to register as a sex offender.
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NWAnews
April 2, 2009
BY L. LAMOR WILLIAMS
Judge has closed hearing for update on Alamo kids
TEXARKANA – After holding a review hearing Wednesday in the case of children removed last year from the Tony Alamo Christian Ministries in Fouke, Miller County Circuit Judge Joe Griffin declined to release any information about the hearing.
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Texarkana Gazette
April 2, 2009
By: Lynn LaRowe
Six review hearings determine care of Alamo followers’ kids
Unlike previous custody hearings concerning the children of followers of Tony Alamo Christian Ministries, there were no protesters or throngs of church members on Wednesday gathered outside the Miller County Juvenile Court Center.
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Below are links to blog sites that discuss Tony Alamo. Most of these blogs have comment sections or discussion forums for the public to express their opinions. :
Spreading our Wings Most recent post “Alamo Christian Ministries Follow-Up” 04/04/09
HubPages – Most recent post “How Polygamy Leads to Slavery” 06/01/08
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WXVT
March 27, 2009
Associated Press
Calif. hearing in 1988 Alamo case delayed
LITTLE ROCK, Ark. (AP) – A man accused in a 1988 beating of a child at a Tony Alamo Christian Ministries compound in California will get a preliminary hearing April 6 after a court session scheduled for Friday was postponed, according to a spokeswoman for the Los Angeles district attorney.
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On Sept 14, 1970 my friend (Sue Moran) and I were down on Hollywood Blvd and were witnessed to and attended a meeting [at the Tony & Susan Alamo Christian Foundation] the next night and went forward to get saved. I do not doubt that I was saved this night. We then were taken to a basement and told we would be filled with the Holy Spirit. (for those who believe in this, well it did happen) then were told that we would not be able to stand our ground in Jesus if we did not come and live there.
We went home and packed our stuff (not much since we had been hitchhiking from Minnesota) and went back the next morning. We could only read, witness, or pray. We were not allowed to talk with each other. None of the new residents were allowed to talk with each other. It was extremely legalistic, and of course we were told over and over that we would backslide and go to hell if we left. [We were told] By staying at the TSACF we were doing something for Jesus and winning souls. We lasted there until Feb 1971. We had moved to Saugus and they finally allowed my friend Sue and I to go witnessing together…and we ran…all the way back to MN. However, my friend Sue went back in November of 1971. I talked to her once in 1988 Thanksgiving and she was living in Alma, AR.
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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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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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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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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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In: 2009 - (Trial year)
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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In: 2009 - (Trial year)
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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In: 2009 - (Trial year)
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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In: 2009 - (Trial year)
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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In: 1980-1989, 2009 - (Trial year)
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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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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