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	Alamo Indictment Unsealed The Arkansas Democrat-Gazette December 2, 2008 http://www2.arkansasonline.com/news/2008/dec/02/alamo-indictment-unsealed/?subscriber/national Read the indictment A federal judge unsealed an indictment Tuesday charging evangelist Tony Alamo with eight additional counts of transporting minors across state lines for sexual purposes. Alamo, the 74-year-old leader of a multistate ministry, was arrested Sept. 25, five days after federal and state authorities raided his religious compound in Fouke. The original indictment, handed down by a grand jury on Oct. 1, accused him of transporting an underage girl across state lines for sexual purposes in 2004 and 2005. The new charges, contained in a superseding indictment handed down Nov. 19, accuse Alamo of eight more violations involving four additional girls as far back as 1994. One offense is alleged to have occurred in July 1998, while Alamo was completing a sentence on tax evasion charges at a halfway house in Texarkana. The indictment lists each girl as a "Jane Doe" and says only that they are all under 18. A clerk made a note in the court file about the superseding indictment last week, but it remained under seal until Tuesday, when U.S. Magistrate Judge Barry Bryant accepted Alamo's plea of innocent to the charges. Alamo's attorney, John Wesley Hall Jr. of Little Rock, said his client denies the allegations.
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