Here’s a unique crime story: The Ledger of Lakeland, Fla. reported last week that a 28-year-old man was charged with robbing a Southern Baptist church after authorities tracked him down through the visitor’s card he filled out at the previous week’s service.

Harold Williams of Lakeland, Fla., was charged with robbery and disrupting a religious assembly at Crystal Lake Baptist Church. He had filled out his name and address on the card.

In an unusual twist, it turns out that the person from whom the offering was snatched was the stepmother of Polk County Sheriff Grady Judd. Despite the rather sudden appearance of six patrol deputies, K-9 units and a sheriff’s helicopter, a police spokeswoman said “there wasn’t an unusual number of units that responded.”

But the lede of one Ledger story may have a point: “Don’t mess with God, Grady Judd or his stepmother.”

h/t: Associated Baptist Press

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