The Bibb County Sheriff’s Office says a Macon youth pastor and Christian school teacher reported a robbery and kidnapping that investigators determined did not happen as described, and he was later charged with solicitation of sodomy.
According to the sheriff’s office, Christopher, 56, has been charged. A charge is an accusation, and he had not been convicted of anything at the time of this report.
What the sheriff’s office said
The investigation began after a rumor about a carjacking and kidnapping started circulating on Facebook, and the sheriff’s office received an inquiry about it. Deputies looked into a reported incident that was said to have taken place Wednesday at a CVS Pharmacy on Forest Hill Drive. Investigators said the person at the center of both reports was Christopher, and they concluded the CVS incident never happened.
Deputies continued to speak with him. He told them he had been robbed of his wallet, cell phone and keys by two masked men who came into his room at the Regency Inn and Suites in Macon on Tuesday. He said he got his phone back from an unknown person who brought it to the hotel after finding it in a nearby Walmart parking lot. During that meeting, he told authorities he was supposed to meet a man at the hotel whom he had arranged to meet through Craigslist.
Investigators said he had been going to the hotel since January. According to a sheriff’s office press release, he first said he did not want the details of the case to get out and did not want police to talk to his family. The release said he planned to tell his father that he had been kidnapped from one place and taken to the hotel.
The school’s response
Christopher has since been removed from the website of Tattnall Square Academy, where he taught. The school said it had no comment on the case. We were unable to reach him for comment.
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