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Posted on 11/01/2010 8:51:23 AM PDT by Colofornian
South Salt Lake police Sunday arrested a man in connection with fires that damaged two LDS meetinghouses over the weekend.
Patrick Ehat, 26, of Salt Lake City, was arrested and booked into the Salt Lake County jail on suspicion of arson, burglary and criminal mischief, said South Salt Lake police Detective Gary Keller.
“He did take responsibility for the church fires,” Keller said. “We haven’t established a motive at this time. It’s still under investigation. ... We’re just glad we have this person off the street and people can feel safe in their communities.”
South Salt Lake firefighters put out two blazes at Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints meetinghouses Saturday morning. The first fire destroyed a chapel in the building at 3219 S. 300 East about 3:30 a.m.
Damage was reported to exceed $1 million.
Three hours later, firefighters were called to an LDS church at 2702 S. Main. The fire caused minor smoke and water damage to the building.
Keller said Ehat had injuries consistent with climbing through a broken window. Police believe he acted alone.
Ehat’s parents, Stephen and Jeanine Ehat, said they have had limited contact with their son in recent months. They have cooperated with law enforcement in the arson investigation, the couple said in a written statement.
The couple can’t speculate about their son’s motive, but believe “medical professionals will assess his mental health,” they wrote, and are grieved at the damage caused.
Investigators are still trying to determine what caused a fire at a vacant South Salt Lake home less than an hour after the second LDS church was set ablaze, police said.
Bishop Matt Parson, of the Miller Ward, the congregation that meets in the building on 300 East, said he does not know Ehat.
A ward directory lists a Pat Ehat as a member.
Sunday services for ward members took place in another meetinghouse, Parson said.
“I know it was challenging for some people because the building has been special to us for so long,” Parson said. “We’ve all shared special experiences there and to have it destroyed that way would be hard for anyone.”
Parson hopes the arrest brings “closure” to the incident.
“It’s nice not having to just wonder who did it,” he said. “We’ll move on. They’ll rebuild or repair [the building] and it will be better than it was before.”
afalk@sltrib.com
Looks like you’re catching on.
"I know NOTHING!"
(But I could post some links for you!)
How does a person even have TIME to think; when they STILL are beating their wife?
Then post your list for all those frustrated TRUTH SEEKERS to peruse.
You talkin' 'bout Sandy and Panderax?
Elsie is here.... here we go with the nonsensical babblefest. Later.
Then stick with your PRO-Mormon games.
Then stick with your PRO-Mormon games.
There’s no apology forthcoming ...
Meanwhile consider this...
Someone has said, “The Mormon Church is spending the equivalent of 75 years worth of humanitarian aid on the City Creek project.”
Now if the mormons dont care to feed and cloth the poor, do you really think they will give you an apology ???
Either is was pretending, or he believed in Mormonism and fell. Either way paragon, Mormonism didn’t save him.
It can’t.
Well, no. I do know when my aunt was in the ICU for twelve weeks someone from their ward brought pizza for my uncle and cousins for Thanksgiving. Wasn’t that sweet?
Are you trying to claim that excommunications aren’t difficult?
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Hard to tell behind all the confusion of this and that...
one bias to another has the credability of ....
Stop claiming to be a member...
Take, for example, this Fox13 local affiliate headline last week: LDS Church Vandalized
Now I'm not critiquing Fox here per se. Actually, Fox 13 was perhaps the only (or one of the extreme few) of radio stations, TV stations and newspapers in Utah to actually point out in that same article that the 4 teens responsible for vandalizing and engaging in arson of that Lds facility were indeed Mormon teens. [So my comment addresses the editor who wrote the headline, not the Fox journalist who was bold enough to mention that "small" detail]
For details on this other recent Mormon-caused arson-vandalism attack, see...(and notice, this time, I finished the sentence): LDS Church Vandalized...by Mormon Teens
According to the Fox segment: They vandalized the church in the name of hatred against the LDS church. It turns out all of the teens are apparently Mormons themselves.
But, of course, I wonder how quick we'll see non-apologists like Lds' G. West, who's been trying to link arson cases to truth being spread about Mormonism on the Internet, be quick to inform his readers on the Internet about who's been responsible for most of the latest arson attacks? Any FREEPERS want to take odds?
Have those Mormon teens been reading the Internet and are now realizing the truth of what their religion stands for?
Or, is it more like those cases several years ago where a lesbian reported a crime of assault and a hate crime based upon her lesbianism, only for the authorities to find out she made the whole thing up?
I know someone who was excommunicated TWICE from the LDS Church. This person was also dis-fellowshipped one time. (A slow learner to be sure.) But the good news is that he is back in full fellowship and holding the M Priesthood.
The LDS Church does not believe in shunning. During one’s ex-communication one may not tithe or partake of the Sacrament. Members really don’t know who’s who - we just love everyone.
The young man who allegedly did this crime is to be pitied and loved.
P.S. I am being accused of something I did not do on this site but life goes on.
P.S. Jesus Christ died for Mormons, too.
My sister was exed, then rebaptized, then she quit.
I have pictures of her too when she was pretending to be perfect. She was Relief Society president and mother of eight children. She had an affair with her oldest son’s 19 year old friend right before her oldest son went on his mission to New Zealand.
The LDS Church couldn’t save her either time. And don’t tell me about shunning unless you’ve been excommunicated or quit - frankly you don’t know the extent of it.
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