KTBS
May 7, 2009
http://www.ktbs.com/news/Tony-Alamo-trial-postponed-31514/
A federal judge in Texarkana has delayed the trial for jailed evangelist Tony Alamo until July 13.
U.S. District Judge Harry Barnes granted Alamo's attorney's request to delay the trial, which had been set to begin May 18 in Texarkana. In a one-page order issued today, Barnes said the "ends of justice served by the granting of the continuance outweighs the best interests of the public and the defendant in a speedy trial."
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A 10-count indictment against Alamo accuses him of sexually abusing five girls on separate occasions beginning in 1994, including a period when he was serving time at a halfway house in Texarkana. Prosecutors said the girls were taken across state lines.
Alamo, 74, was arrested last September in Flagstaff, Arizona, five days after FBI agents and Arkansas state police raided his church's compound in Fouke.
Alamo has pleaded not guilty.
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