I'm not a thief, I was protecting this stuff! Texas pastor's defence as she's caught with $10,000 of designer goodsDaily Mail [UK]
by Staff
A Texas pastor caught with more than $10,000 worth of fur coats, designer purses and electronics insists she was protecting a parishioner's valuables from thieves, not stealing them. Sandy McGriff, co-founder of the Church of the Living God, was caught by police loading Serita Agnew's goods into her car. The 52-year-old claims she was picking up a peach cobbler from a friend when she detoured past church member Agnew's home.
Something just told me to go past her house,' McGriff said. When she got there, she claims she saw two men coming out of the side of Agnew's home. The pastor says she noticed a window was broken so climbed through it, picked up valuables and loaded them into her black Jaguar to protect them in case the burglars came back. >>>
It was Agnew's neighbour David Nanez who called police. He said he saw a woman trying to break a window and then struggling to climb through it. Nanez added that he had not seen the two men McGriff claims were also on the property.
The police arrived, with guns drawn, as McGriff was making a second trip to her car. She resisted arrest and claimed the police had used 'unnecessary force.' The arrest report states that the pastor was not sober when she was caught red-handed. >>>
The pastor, with a criminal past including prostitution and fraud, slipped off her handcuffs when she was first apprehended, and gave police officers a false name. McGriff insists she is innocent.
SOURCESeems like Pastor McGriff was just trying to take a bite out of crime. Is she related to McGruff the Crime Dog?
