ALABAMA
AL.com

By Martin J. Reed | mreed@al.com
on September 13, 2014

PLEASANT GROVE, Alabama — A Birmingham-area minister has been formally charged with rape and sodomy after he was arrested Thursday for allegedly victimizing a minor female.

Glenn VanZandt, 55, of Hoover, faces charges of second-degree rape and second-degree sodomy contained in his arrest warrants, Pleasant Grove Police Sgt. Danny Reid said in a phone interview this morning.

“There was a period of victimization over several months where he had sex and sodomized a minor female under the age of 16,” Reid said about the charges against VanZandt.

VanZandt this morning remained in the Pleasant Grove jail awaiting transport to the Jefferson County jail in Bessemer, Reid said. His bond has been set at $60,000.