CLEVELAND (OH)
The Plain Dealer
By Cory Shaffer | Northeast Ohio Media Group
on October 14, 2013
CLEVELAND, Ohio — The Rev. James McGonegal will have his initial hearing in court Tuesday on charges he solicited sex from a plain-clothes Cleveland Metroparks Ranger Friday.
Cleveland Municipal Court records show the St. Ignatius of Antioch priest will appear for his felony arraignment at 8:30 a.m. Tuesday on soliciting after a positive HIV test and driver’s license suspension charges.
McGonegal was arrested in Edgewater Park Friday afternoon, after an off-duty Cleveland Metroparks ranger said McGonegal offered the ranger $50 to help him “get off,” then exposed himself and masturbated, all while sitting inside his late-model Jeep SUV.
The report said McGonegal had three sex devices in his Jeep when he was arrested around 12:45 p.m.
McGonegal has been pastor at St. Ignatius of Antioch Church, at Lorain Avenue and West Boulevard, since the mid-1980s. He has been a priest since 1971.
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