Summary

THE TRIAL OF CULT LEADER TONY ALAMO BEGAN TODAY IN ARKANSAS THE 56-YEAR-OLD EVANGELIST WAS ARRESTED IN TAMPA ON A WARRANT FROM ARKANSAS WHERE A FEDERAL INDICTMENT CHARGES HIM WITH THREATENING TO KIDNAP AND HANG A JUDGE FEDERAL PROSECUTORS SAY ALAMO MADE TELEPHONE CALLS IN WHICH HE THREATENED TO KIDNAP US DISTRICT JUDGE MORRIS ARNOLD OF FT SMITH SO THE FEDERAL JUDGE COULD GO ON TRIAL BEFORE ALAMO THE EVANGELIST WAS ANGERED AT LOSING $50 MILLION WORTH OF PROPERTY AS THE RESULT OF A DECISION BY ARNOLD ALAMO COULD BE SENTENCED TO FIVE YEARS IN PRISON AND FINED $5,000 IF CONVICTED ALAMO A VOCAL ANTI-CATHOLIC AND HIS NOW-DECEASED WIFE SUSAN ALAMO FOUNDED A RELIGIOUS MINISTRY 25 YEARS AGO THAT GREW INTO A MULTIMILLION DOLLAR CONGLOMERATE OF CHURCH RESTAURANTS CLOTHING STORES AND DOZENS OF OTHER BUSINESS VENTURES IN ARKANSAS CALIFORNIA AND TENNESSEE

Source CONUS Archive
Record ID 283201
Story Slug ALAMO TRIAL (1991)
Location FORT SMITH, ARKANSAS
Format PKG W/TAG
Date 09/06/1991
Archive Time 1:03:12
TRT 1:00
Supers FT SMITH, ARKANSAS JEFFREY DICKSTEIN, ALAMO'S ATTORNEY TRACY WINCHELL, REPORTING (STANDUP ) SKETCHES BY DEBRA CHOATE FEBRUARY 1991
Video Description (COURTROOM SKETCHES ARE NOT LICENSABLE) POTENTIAL JURORS LEAVING COURTHOUSE, SOTS, ATTORNEY WALK SHOTS, COURT SKETCHES (NOT LICENSABLE), ALAMO PROPERTY
Description THE TRIAL OF CULT LEADER TONY ALAMO BEGAN TODAY IN ARKANSAS THE 56-YEAR-OLD EVANGELIST WAS ARRESTED IN TAMPA ON A WARRANT FROM ARKANSAS WHERE A FEDERAL INDICTMENT CHARGES HIM WITH THREATENING TO KIDNAP AND HANG A JUDGE FEDERAL PROSECUTORS SAY ALAMO MADE TELEPHONE CALLS IN WHICH HE THREATENED TO KIDNAP US DISTRICT JUDGE MORRIS ARNOLD OF FT SMITH SO THE FEDERAL JUDGE COULD GO ON TRIAL BEFORE ALAMO THE EVANGELIST WAS ANGERED AT LOSING $50 MILLION WORTH OF PROPERTY AS THE RESULT OF A DECISION BY ARNOLD ALAMO COULD BE SENTENCED TO FIVE YEARS IN PRISON AND FINED $5,000 IF CONVICTED ALAMO A VOCAL ANTI-CATHOLIC AND HIS NOW-DECEASED WIFE SUSAN ALAMO FOUNDED A RELIGIOUS MINISTRY 25 YEARS AGO THAT GREW INTO A MULTIMILLION DOLLAR CONGLOMERATE OF CHURCH RESTAURANTS CLOTHING STORES AND DOZENS OF OTHER BUSINESS VENTURES IN ARKANSAS CALIFORNIA AND TENNESSEE
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Keywords

CULT
TONY ALAMO
SUSAN ALAMO
THREATENING A FEDERAL JUDGE
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