ST. LOUIS (MO)
WCF Courier
By DENNIS MAGEE, dennis.magee@wcfcourier.com
ST. LOUIS, Mo. — The figure some in Buchanan County knew as the Most Rev. and Lord Abbot Ryan St. Anne Scott is awaiting extradition today in the St. Louis County Jail.
“We’ll probably go get him at the beginning of the week,” said Sgt. Scott Cordle, chief of jail operations for the Knox County Sheriff’s Office in Illinois.
Scott, a self-anointed monk, is facing three counts of financial exploitation of an elderly person; three counts of theft and one count of deceptive practices, according to Cordle. Each charge is a felony in Illinois.
Authorities issued the arrest warrant Feb. 29. Deputies collected Scott at 8:30 a.m. Tuesday at a house on Sweet Gum Drive in St. Louis. One of Scott’s associates, Thomas Bertke, reportedly lives there.
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