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	FBI Arrests Evangelist Alamo on Suspicion of Child Sex Abuse Associated Press, carried in Tennessean September 26, 2008 http://www.tennessean.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20080926/NEWS03/809260410/1017/news01 FBI agents arrested evangelist and convicted tax evader Tony Alamo at an Arizona motel Thursday, alleging days after raiding the Arkansas headquarters of his ministry that he took minors across state lines for sexual purposes. Alamo was staying at a resort in Flagstaff when arrested, said FBI spokesman Steve Frazier in Little Rock. The religious leader, who began his career as a California street preacher in 1966, was scheduled for a federal court appearance today. In the 1970s and '80s Alamo and his wife Susan operated a Western clothing store in Nashville that catered to country stars and others in the music business. They had a cult-like church on Music Row and a downtown mission that supplied cheap labor for the store. A 1991 raid on the complex produced evidence that helped convict Alamo of tax evasion. He is suspected of violating the Mann Act, which prohibits taking children across state lines for illegal purposes. Frazier described those purposes as "sexual activity." Federal agents and Arkansas state police had raided the headquarters of Tony Alamo Christian Ministries in tiny Fouke on Saturday and removed six girls ages 10 to 17. They sought evidence that children there had been molested or filmed having sex. Alamo has preached that girls are fit for marriage once they are sexually mature.
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