OMG! Pastor and registered sex offenders arrested after car wash
A local pastor is speaking out after court documents show he allowed registered sex offenders to volunteer at a car wash that was too close to a school or daycare.
According to the documents, Dennis Potter is accused of allowing six sex offenders to volunteer to help wash cars on Sept. 14.
The Baldwin County Sheriff’s Office said the car wash happened near a school or daycare. By law, registered sex offenders cannot be within 2000 feet of.
Potter, who owns Outcast Ministries Inc., a non-profit aimed at rehabilitating addicts, the homeless, and criminals through the word of God, said they have done car washes numerous times at the Outcast Ministries thrift store on Highway 59 and have never had a problem.
“We were certainly not trying to do anything wrong,” Potter said. “The thing about a Sunday, schools are not even meeting on Sunday, daycares are not in business on Sunday. There were no kids involved. These are adults, bringing their car up to do a car wash.”
FAC NOTE: If you want to send an email of support and appreciation to the pastor, you can contact him here: [email protected]
If you want to send comments to the Baldwin County Sheriff’s office about this arrest, you can do so here: https://sheriff.baldwincountyal.gov/contactus/general-inquiries-comments
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Clearly there was no intent by the six or the pastor to commit new crimes. Just an excuse for the sherriff to rile the public up into a panic over much to do about nothing. Sad.
Yes, we must ban pastors. How dare they try and help someone get back on their feet. (Sarcasm to the max)
If you do something wrong, you get in trouble. If you do something good, seems you still get in trouble.
Is that what they call a “No win” situation or a scenario where no matter what you do you are damned if you do and damned if you don’t.
Hold the effin phone. So you mean to tell me that we cannot even drive through a school zone on our way to work or any other fitting scenario? I thought we cannot allowed to reside that close to a school. I was not aware that I can’t visit a convenient store or restaurant that is right across the street from a school. This case will be thrown out. There’s a difference between conducting business and loitering. Baldwin County is over reaching. I would sue the county and Sheriff’s. Not jus monetarily but going after jobs as well. I hope this pastor can get a good lawyer for everyone involved. This is getting nuts.
@TIM
When I was on probation, I didn’t have that many rules, requirements and regulations. Of course, that was 23 years ago, and a lot has changed. But what they are doing is so far-fetched, that next they will want to deport people on the registry.
I have said this before but there are 67 counties in Florida and every one of them seems to have different or add on requirements. Even the F.D.L.E probably doesn’t know what is going on in some counties but maybe looking the other way or being complacent.
I cannot give an example but in the past there have been people arrested that were on the registry and law enforcement arrested them for some B.S rule. Some of them got the charges dropped, but any arrest, even if dropped, can cause you to never be removed from the registry. (Although a while back someone who had a violation said they had still gotten a judge to remove them from registration)
Finally, the registry created a whole new line of career, for police and others as full time registration enforcers, registration offices and compliance officers. I have no idea how much money they are making on us but I am sure it is in the Billions nationwide since the registry started.
and yet they still claim it is civil and not penal.. the hypocrisy is never ending.. the more they push the more I would absolutely love to see exactly which elites are on those Epstein Island records and which Senators and Congressmen were involved in paying off their s3x crimes with taxpayer money in those multiple tax payer funded slush funds they managed to shush shush real quick.. if anyone has a way to get legit information on either and is scared to go public let me know. I would love to make them famous for all the right reasons. Only way they will stop terrorizing Americans is when they are also forced into the accountability they foist on others..
Back in 2016 a man forced to register from Athens AL working as a volunteer firefighter was arrested for taking a service call too close to a school. They ultimately dropped the charges three years later.
Maybe with some pressure we can get them to drop the charges sooner.
He must have known the day care was there prior based upon the warning he received from LE about PFRs working in his store (in the story). Still goes to show there needs to be a map for all to know the exclusion zones and what they consist of with addresses of these valid entities that create them. You cannot abide by the law if you don’t know where the lines are literally drawn and when they are applicable, e.g., open hours of operation.
With all of this, this example shows the vagueness of the law when it comes to a day care, as an example, being used as a valid entity to extend an exclusion zone. The law says day care, but not when the day care is in operation, which is overbroad and overreaching. You cannot have an entity be used to extend an exclusion zone when it is not in operation. The least restrictive way to apply the law would be during operational hours only, not all day/night any day of the week.
It may be just me, but I believe that is a lawsuit in the wings waiting to happen. You cannot just sit on the day care definition to hold a spot (whether by license or physical space) when it is not being physically used as such to create hardship on people anytime one wants. This could apply to a school, park, etc, IMO.
I sent in a message; hope others do the same.