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WCF Courier

By Dennis Magee

FAYETTE, Mo. | The fake monk arrested recently in Howard County in Missouri must remain in jail until he produces $150,000 for bail, cash only.

The judge assigned Ryan St. Anne Scott’s case refused a request April 7 to reduce the amount, according to court records.

Scott, charged as Ryan St. Anne Gevelinger, created a long-running legal mess several years ago involving bankruptcies in Iowa and Illinois, a lawsuit, a herd of registered llamas and the former Buchanan County home near Independence.

At that time, Scott referred to himself as the Most Rev. and Lord Abbott Ryan St. Anne Scott, and he was attempting to establish an alleged religious community. Multiple officials in multiple Catholic dioceses, including Dubuque, emphatically denounced Scott, however, as neither a Benedictine monk or a Catholic priest.

Scott faces three counts of financial exploitation of an elderly or disabled…