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	Steven Moore, Former Ringgold Pastor, Case Set for July 19 By Judy Frank The Chattanoogan [Chattanooga, TN] June 14, 2007 http://www.chattanoogan.com/articles/article_108847.asp The former pastor of the Ringgold United Methodist Church – one of nine men arrested in April during a Chattanooga prostitution sting – will go before Sessions Court Judge Clarence Shattuck on July 19. Pastor Steven Andrew Moore, who resigned from his position in May, is charged with patronizing prostitution within a mile and a half of a church or a school. Moore served as senior pastor at the Ringgold church for eight years, and was also chaplain for the Catoosa County Fire Department at the time he was cited. Police reportedly found a fire chaplain's uniform in the back of his vehicle. The Moore case is being monitored by Court Watch volunteers, who also are keeping a close eye on developments in the cases of the eight other men arrested during the same string. East Lake resident Cecilie M. Roman is the volunteer assigned to monitor the Moore case. The case grows out of an April 27 vice sting conducted by the Chattanooga Police Department's special investigations unit conducted a vice sting at 2800 Wautauga St. Female officers were used to pose as street prostitutes to be solicited by "Johns" for sex for money. During the sting, eight other men and one woman were arrested on various charges, and one handgun was seized. Also charged with patronizing prostitution were Dale Poplin, 52; Donnie Phillips, 30; James G. Higdon, 56; Todd A. Couvillon, 37; Joseph E. Cox, 55; Jason Lee Scarbrough, 36; Ronald Freeman, 42; and Rodolfo Trinidad Lopez-Baltazar, 41. Freeman also was charged with unlawful possession of a handgun. During the incident, 40-year-old Kathy Condra was charged with obstructing a roadway.
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