Georgia megachurch pastor Creflo Dollar arrested

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By KATE BRUMBACKASSOCIATED PRESS – updated Saturday, June 9, 2012 - 1:39am

ATLANTA — Megachurch pastor and televangelist Creflo Dollar — who has drawn scrutiny for his flashy lifestyle and preaching that prosperity is good — was arrested early Friday after authorities say he slightly hurt his 15-year-old daughter in a fight at his metro Atlanta home.

Fayette County Sheriff's deputies responded to a call of domestic violence at the home in unincorporated Fayette County around 1 a.m., said investigator Brent Rowan. The pastor and his daughter were arguing over whether she could go to a party when Dollar "got physical" with her, leaving her with "superficial injuries," Rowan said.
The 15-year-old was the one who called authorities, and her 19-year-old sister corroborated the story, Rowan said.

Dollar faces misdemeanor charges of simple battery and cruelty to children. He bonded out of Fayette County jail Friday morning.

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1. His name is Dollar?

[CurtEastPoint]

2. I much prefer this photo.

He claims he should not have been arrested and he DIDN'T choke his daughter.

[Boxcar Willie]

8. Why he is not smiling?

where are his Dollars now?

[aint_no_life_nowhere]

7. Named after his patron Saint, the almighty

Dollar.

[Dash87]

11. lol It's like something from a movie

[Boxcar Willie]

3. Never happened...

There is no way someone is named Creflo Dollar IRL....

[TroglodyteScholar]

5. I used to see ads for this guys "ministries" all the time on TV in central GA

I thought it was a joke, too. He's about a slick and sleazy as they come, preaching prosperity thru Jesus in his fancy pinstripe suit.

Sickening. Someone arrest him for his REAL crimes--fleecing the poor and ignorant.

[Quantess]

6. Obviously God named him that.

But seriously, I think it's a suggestion that you should give him your dollars, and then of course God willl be pleased and give you dollars. That's the whole idea with televangelism.

[Initech]

4. Didn't Bill Maher interview this guy on Religulous?

[LAGC]

10. No, that was someone else.

I'm sure Maher could have had a field day though if he got the chance to interview this guy.

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12. Good Gawd!

[KoKo]

9. Creflo Dollar? What? He was definitely "trading on his name."

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13. Reverend Ike was fleecing the flock long before Creflo Dollar.

Yeah, I'm old.