April 01, 2005

Zanesville Pastor Released After Posting Bond

FAIRBORN (OH)
WHIO

POSTED: 3:46 pm EST March 31, 2005
UPDATED: 3:50 pm EST March 31, 2005

FAIRBORN, Ohio -- A Zanesville church pastor posted bond in Fairborn and is now out of jail. However, he cannot go back to work because church administrators suspended him.

Graham Phillips, 25, was arrested in Fairborn earlier this week after investigators said he used a church computer to chat online with whom he thought was a teenage girl. They said he drove to Fairborn to meet the girl for sex.

Authorities said the teenager Phillips had been chatting with online was actually an undercover detective.

Posted by kshaw at April 1, 2005 06:07 AM