They had the vehicle and the pastor detained. There is no excuse NOT to go to the local magistrate and get a search warrant.
Not even a Baptist Preacher deserves that kind of treatmenat at the hands of law enforcement.
“They had the vehicle and the pastor detained. There is no excuse NOT to go to the local magistrate and get a search warrant.”
True. But they have this “exception” to fall back on, to save the bother