Thursday, January 8, 2009

New Information in Rev. Donald Armstrong Case


More on the Don Armstrong case in Colorado Springs-

COLORADO SPRINGS - A Colorado Springs reverend is accused of stealing hundreds of thousands of dollars from a church trust fund. It's new information on a case NEWSCHANNEL 13 has followed for several months.

Police say Rev. Donald Armstrong took the funds to pay for his kids' college tuition. "It has been a very lengthy investigation," says Lt. David Whitlock with the Colorado Springs Police Department, "[investigators] have been putting a lot of hard work into it and they're not done yet."

An affidavit from CSPD states that Armstrong misused $392,000 and that he wrote monthly checks from July 1999 to March 2006. Those were the years Armstrong's children were in college. "There are hundreds upon thousands of pages of information that need to be looked at," says Whitlock of the lengthy investigation, "as well as computer records."

http://www.krdo.com/Global/story.asp?S=9633099


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