PASADENA, Texas December 16 2019 A Pasadena man is facing charges after police say he ran inside a church and threatened members with a screwdriver. It happened around 6:30 p.m. Thursday at First Baptist Church on Fairmont Parkway during its annual Christmas program. Police say security noticed a man driving erratically in the parking lot when […]
HIGHLAND COUNTY, Ohio December 15 2019 Highland County police were called to a murder-suicide late Friday night where the suspect shot and killed a woman, then took off across the street to the Church of Nazarene where the suspect shot and killed himself, says a deputy at the Highland County Sheriff’s Department. It started at 11:30 […]
Memphis TN November 12 2019 The Secure Community Network (SCN) has teamed up with the US Secret Service’s National Threat Assessment Center (NTAC) to offer training on threat assessment and prevention of violence against America’s Jewish community. The event, to be held on Wednesday in Memphis, Tennessee, will bring together law enforcement agencies, school officials, mental health […]
Youngstown OH Nov 9 2019 Police responded to assist security at a church on Wick Ave, after receiving complaints of someone refusing to leave the property. Braylon Barnes, 28, was taken into custody and arrested by the arriving officer. He was booked into the Mahoning County Jail on charges of aggravated menacing. According to a […]
GASTONIA, N.C. November 1 2019 — A Gastonia man was arrested after he allegedly took his clothes off and charged the pulpit during a Sunday church service, FOX46 reports. Pastor Scottie Cochran of His Frontline Ministry said Christopher Gossage was a new church member and his actions were unexpected. Cochran says when Gossage began acting aggressively […]
MEMPHIS, Tenn. October 2 2019 – A young Memphis pastor is accused of swindling more than a dozen people into believing he was running a new church with big name backing. Greater Victory Church of Memphis started and shut down in a matter of weeks and former staff members told FOX13 the church seemed legitimate at […]
OCONEE COUNTY, S.C. September 21 2019 An Upstate man has been charged with threatening to shoot up a church with an AR-15, according to Kianna Holland, with the Oconee County Sheriff’s Office. Damon O’Neal Johnson, 22, was charged with giving false information, assault and battery third degree and disturbing a place of worship, Holland said. […]
Indianapolis IN Aug 22 2019 A truck driver has been arrested after saying he would commit a mass shooting at a church in Memphis, Tennessee, authorities say in newly filed court records. Thomas Matthew McVicker was apprehended in Indianapolis before the plan could be carried out, according to court papers filed Monday. It’s the most […]
TULSA, Oklahoma Aug 17 2019– Tulsa Police say a church member shot a suspected burglar at the Church of Christ near Pine and Sheridan. Officers say this church has been burglarized several times for copper in the past two weeks. Police were called out for a possible burglary overnight Thursday, but didn’t find anything at the time. […]
PHOENIX AZ Aug 8 2019 An armed trespasser allegedly threatened an armed security guard at a church in north Phoenix. Phoenix police report that on Tuesday, July 30 about 3:30 pm. a man later identified as Curtis Dewayne Johnson, 33, was walking through Calvary Church near I-17 and Cactus Road. Police say an armed security guard […]