Executive Pastor of the Roc Expected in Court for Making Threats

By Mike Valerio
NBC 12
June 3, 2013

http://www.nbc12.com/story/22483554/executive-pastor-of-the-roc-expected-in-court-for-making-threats

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RICHMOND, VA (WWBT) -

The Roc's top pastor will fight charges of threatening phone calls Monday morning.

Jason Helmlinger stepped down last week, and is the second Roc leader to face criminal charges. His friend and fellow pastor, Geronimo Aguilar, faces sexual abuse charges in Texas.

There has been a lot of confusing controversy at the Roc, but things could start to get back to normal if Executive Pastor Jason Helmlinger beats this charge of making threatening phone calls.

When a former church member last week said Aguilar, who founded the Roc, had inappropriate relations with church wives, police say Helmlinger called the former church member and threatened to harm him. That's what the case is all about Monday morning.

The charge is a misdemeanor. It's called "using profanity over a public airway."

Helmlinger stepped down as executive pastor until the case ends. At 9 a.m. at the Manchester Courthouse, if the charge is dismissed, the Roc has one of its leaders who can get back to church, and out of court.