Crime & Safety
Catonsville Pentecostal Bishop Gets Suspended Sentence
Roan S. Faulkner was given 18-month suspended sentence Wednesday.
Roan S. Faulkner, the pentecostal bishop who pleaded guilty to second-degree assault and faced allegations of sexual assualt, received a suspended sentence Wednesday.
According to the Baltimore Sun, the pastor of faced an 18-month sentence when he appeared in Baltimore County Circuit Court.
Faulkner and had faced seven counts, including attempted second-degree rape.
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In court on Wednesday, Judge Thomas J. Bollinger Sr. said the charges should be a "wake-up call" for Faulkner but that Faulkner had also already been punished in part.
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