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LDS seminary teacher charged with burglary, theft of prescription drugs
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| June 5, 2013
| Geoff Liesek
Posted on 06/06/2013 5:20:47 AM PDT by Colofornian
ROOSEVELT A man responsible for teaching religious education classes to LDS high school students is facing criminal charges after investigators say he burglarized a home on a Sunday afternoon to steal prescription painkillers.
Brian Dean Thacker was charged Wednesday in 8th District Court with burglary, a second-degree felony, theft, a class B misdemeanor, and possession of a controlled substance, a class B misdemeanor.
On May 26, Thacker entered a home about 2 p.m. and took Lortab from a medicine cabinet, according to Duchesne County sheriff's detective Dela Rowley.
A woman was upstairs in the home at the time and heard Thacker moving around downstairs, Rowley said. She waited until Thacker left and then looked out the window and recognized him, the detective said.
Thacker, 42, was interviewed after the incident was reported to the sheriff's office. He corroborated the woman's account of what happened and admitted to taking Lortab from the home, Rowley said.
Thacker served as The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints seminary teacher for Union High School during the 2012-13 academic year. Prior to that, he was the seminary teacher for LDS students at Altamont High School.
"The church expects the highest level of conduct from its seminary teachers," LDS Church spokeswoman Ruth Todd said. "Brian Thacker is on administrative leave."
So far investigators do not believe Thacker was using prescription painkillers while teaching seminary classes or soliciting medication from his students, Rowley said.
Thacker has entered an inpatient drug treatment program. His first court appearance is set for June 27.
TOPICS: Current Events; Moral Issues; Other Christian; Other non-Christian; Religion & Culture
KEYWORDS: burglary; lds; mormonism; seminaryteacher
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ROOSEVELT A man responsible for teaching religious education classes to LDS high school students is facing criminal charges after investigators say he burglarized a home on a Sunday afternoon to steal prescription painkillers. Brian Dean Thacker was charged Wednesday in 8th District Court with burglary, a second-degree felony, theft, a class B misdemeanor, and possession of a controlled substance, a class B misdemeanor. On May 26, Thacker entered a home about 2 p.m. and took Lortab from a medicine cabinet, according to Duchesne County sheriff's detective Dela Rowley. A woman was upstairs in the home at the time and heard Thacker moving around downstairs, Rowley said. She waited until Thacker left and then looked out the window and recognized him, the detective said. Thacker, 42, was interviewed after the incident was reported to the sheriff's office. He corroborated the woman's account of what happened and admitted to taking Lortab from the home, Rowley said. Thacker served as The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints seminary teacher for Union High School during the 2012-13 academic year. Prior to that, he was the seminary teacher for LDS students at Altamont High School.
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To: Colofornian
What does it matter if the perp is LDS, Baptist, Catholic or Orthodox Jew? The story is about a burglary.
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posted on
06/06/2013 6:28:51 AM PDT
by
JimRed
(Excise the cancer before it kills us; feed &water the Tree of Liberty! TERM LIMITS, NOW & FOREVER!)
To: Colofornian
I wonder how he KNEW those drugs would be there??
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posted on
06/06/2013 7:02:46 AM PDT
by
Elsie
(Heck is where people, who don't believe in Gosh, think they are not going...)
To: JimRed
What does it matter if the perp is LDS, Baptist, Catholic or Orthodox Jew? The story is about a burglary.The back story is that MORMONs are much better than everyone else.
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posted on
06/06/2013 7:03:29 AM PDT
by
Elsie
(Heck is where people, who don't believe in Gosh, think they are not going...)
To: Colofornian
How many thefts have been prevented by Mormons?
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posted on
06/06/2013 7:26:43 AM PDT
by
laotzu
To: Elsie
..MORMONs are much better than everyone else How long have you believed that? Are you a Mormon?
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posted on
06/06/2013 7:28:09 AM PDT
by
laotzu
To: JimRed
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posted on
06/06/2013 7:30:27 AM PDT
by
svcw
(If you are dead when your heart stops, why aren't you alive when it starts.)
To: laotzu
hahaha That’s what mormons say about themselves, “they are better”.
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posted on
06/06/2013 7:33:22 AM PDT
by
svcw
(If you are dead when your heart stops, why aren't you alive when it starts.)
To: svcw; Elsie
Thats what mormons say about themselves, they are better. Elsie said that. Is she a Mormon?
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posted on
06/06/2013 7:39:32 AM PDT
by
laotzu
To: laotzu
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posted on
06/06/2013 7:41:30 AM PDT
by
svcw
(If you are dead when your heart stops, why aren't you alive when it starts.)
To: svcw; Elsie
Why ascribe to Mormons that which Elsie does?
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posted on
06/06/2013 7:44:39 AM PDT
by
laotzu
To: laotzu
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posted on
06/06/2013 8:15:38 AM PDT
by
svcw
(If you are dead when your heart stops, why aren't you alive when it starts.)
To: svcw
Why ascribe to Mormons that which Elsie does?
I do not intend to be a smart aleck, just as I am sure you are not feigning an illiterate.
Which word gives you the most trouble.
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posted on
06/06/2013 8:26:49 AM PDT
by
laotzu
To: laotzu
Joseph Smith made the following claim:
I told the Brethren that the Book of Mormon was the most correct of any book on earth, and the keystone of our religion,
and a man would get nearer to God by abiding its precepts, than by any other book.
--- Documentary History of the [Mormon] Church, vol.4, pp.461.
No.
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posted on
06/06/2013 8:47:12 AM PDT
by
Elsie
(Heck is where people, who don't believe in Gosh, think they are not going...)
To: Elsie; svcw
Why, do you think, does svcw ascribe your opinion to Mormons?
It is really none of my business, but; are you a Mormon?
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posted on
06/06/2013 8:55:58 AM PDT
by
laotzu
To: laotzu; Elsie
I am not a mormon.
Elsie refers to mormons as such because that’s how they refer to themselves.
It’s pretty simple really.
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posted on
06/06/2013 9:26:53 AM PDT
by
svcw
(If you are dead when your heart stops, why aren't you alive when it starts.)
To: laotzu
How many thefts have been prevented by Mormons? Do you know how many thefts were prevented by Mormons? Are you a Mormon? We do know they didn't prevent this one! It must have slipped through 'the cracks'.
To: laotzu
1. I don’t mind read.
2. No.
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posted on
06/06/2013 11:50:28 AM PDT
by
Elsie
(Heck is where people, who don't believe in Gosh, think they are not going...)
To: presently no screen name
Do you know how many thefts were prevented by Mormons? The question that is REALLY important (IMHO) is...
"How many non-Faith building stories have been KEPT from media attention by MORMONism, Inc.?"
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posted on
06/06/2013 11:52:28 AM PDT
by
Elsie
(Heck is where people, who don't believe in Gosh, think they are not going...)
To: svcw; Elsie; Greetings_Puny_Humans
Elsie refers to mormons as such("they are better") because thats how they refer to themselves. I have never heard that from them, only from Elsie. However; I do not doubt your assertion.
Of course, fans say the Dallas Mavericks are better. They are desperately wrong, of course, but hardly worthy of serious ridicule.
(well, maybe a little)
It is simply not possible that no Mormon is decent enough to stop a crime given the chance. The few I have met were exceptionally honorable.
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posted on
06/07/2013 7:14:56 AM PDT
by
laotzu
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