FLORIDA
Orlando Sentinel
By Henry Pierson Curtis, Orlando Sentinel
A Kissimmee pastor charged with molesting a teenage parishioner is now accused of swindling a church member, Kissimmee police said Thursday.
Angel Perez-Nieves of Templo Pentecostal Puerta de Salvacion is accused of using a church member’s personal information to open an account with an alarm company, records state.
“The victim explained to officers that the church’s pastor…told her and other parishioners that he needed to collect their personal information for the purpose of ‘state reporting,'” a police report said. “On May 22, 2012, the victim received a telephone call from Devcon Alarm Company about the alarm contract for the church. The company told the victim that the payments for the alarm are past due and that her credit score was in jeopardy. The victim was confused due to the fact she did not give anyone permission to open an account with her information.”
Attorney Mark Longwell of Orlando, the pastor’s lawyer, was surprised to learn of the new charge. He said police had not contacted him or his client.
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