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Pastor charged with armed robbery

Posted Monday, May 19, 2008. — View & Post Comments »

WOODSTOCK, Va. - A Luray area pastor will appear in a Shenandoah County court today on charges he robbed a dollar store at gunpoint this month.

Police charged 55-year-old Hobert Wayne Bryant with robbery, use of a firearm during the commission of a felony, and eluding police during the May 8 incident.

Employees at a local Dollar General store told police a man wearing a blue coat, dark knit hat and sunglasses entered the store some time after 4 p.m., displayed a gun and demanded the contents of the cash register before fleeing in a white Ford Taurus.

Woodstock police later stopped Bryant driving the same car. Inside, police found cash, a disassembled shotgun and a 40-caliber, semiautomatic shotgun.

Bryant has been the longtime pastor of Rocky Branch Baptist Church, near Luray.

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Comments:

Casey said...

I'm curious.... I though the 8th command was thou shall not steal?

May 19, 2008

The Thylacine said...

Ah but he forgot the most important commandment...thou shall not get caught!

May 19, 2008

stronger now said...

"...40-caliber, semiautomatic shotgun."

Shotguns are not described in caliber's but gauges as in 12 guage, 20 guage, 410 guage ect..

They're most likley referring to a handgun.

Just a little pet peeve of mine.

Also, with the decline of churchgoing in america, can we expect this kind of behaviour from the clergy more and more?

May 19, 2008

skep said...

that's christian morality for you-

May 19, 2008

John of Indiana said...

Guess the weekly "take" is down quite a bit.

I've seen a .410 cal. shotgun, eh, reporting isn't what it used to be, our local rag doesn't even spell-check...

May 20, 2008