Category Archive for : ‘EVANGELIST’

December 3, 2019
William Thornton
AL

An Alabama evangelist pleaded guilty this morning in an Etowah County courtroom to 28 counts of sexual abuse involving six victims.
Paul Acton Bowen, charged in both Jefferson County and Etowah counties, was facing criminal charges, including enticing a child for sexual act, sodomy, traveling to meet a child for sexual act and sexual abuse involving six different victims between the ages of 13 and 16.
He was first arrested by Hoover police in April 2018 and has remained jailed since then.
The 39-year-old Bowen is a Gadsden native and

FBI

FBI Special Agents arrested Bernie Hoffman, aka Tony Alamo in Flagstaff, Arizona thisafternoon without incident.  A federal arrest warrant was issued for Alamo, the founder andleader of the Tony Alamo Christian Ministries, on suspicion of transporting minors across statelines for sexual purposes.  It is a federal crime to knowingly transport a minor (under 18)across state lines with the intent to engage in sexual activity that would be a criminal offenseunder state law.  Alamo was arrested at a motel in Flagstaff.
(Little Rock, Arizona)

Robert Weinstein, a 44 year old former East Meadow teacher and registered sex offender, who was more recently an executive at a Manhattan educational foundation, tried to kill himself with a kitchen knife In March 2005 when FBI agents arrived to arrest him on child pornography charges. Agents went to his home at 290 Atlantic Avenue, East Rockaway, and wrestled the large knife out of his hands and took him to the psychiatric unit of the Nassau County Medical Center in East Meadow, which released him for arraignment. Weinstein sent