“MY STANDING IN THE CHURCH SHIELDS EVERYTHING”!!! BELIEVE IT OR NOT, LINN COUNTY AUTHORITIES SAY LONGTIME PASTOR WADE BOOTH COMMITTED UNLAWFUL SEXUAL RELATIONS WITH A MINOR AND WITNESS INTIMIDATION… AND HE IS NOW JAILED ON A $750,000 BOND.
On August 31, Linn County authorities arrested 70-year-old Wade Booth.
Deputies booked the longtime pastor into the Linn County Justice Center at 7 p.m.
Booth now faces multiple felony charges.
Those counts include unlawful sexual relations with a minor.
Authorities also charged him with felony witness intimidation.
His bond was set at $750,000.
Booth brings with him decades of ministry experience across Kansas, Missouri and Oklahoma.
Since 2007, he has served as pastor of First Baptist Church of Pleasanton, Kansas.
His church biography details extensive past work in the region.
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According to that biography, he previously spent 12 years as pastor of Calvary Bible Baptist Church in Harper.
And he worked as a missionary church planter in Oklahoma.
Between 1997 and 2005, Booth helped start two Oklahoma churches.
But public reports do not identify the minor’s age.
The available records also do not explain the alleged sexual conduct.
And authorities have not publicly detailed the circumstances surrounding the witness-intimidation charge.
Reporters reached out to First Baptist Church of Pleasanton following the arrest.
The church did not immediately comment after reporters contacted it.
Booth has not been convicted.
The charges are allegations and have not been proven in court.
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