On August 14, 2025, Mobile County deputies arrested Pastor Robert Michael Wagley of the St. Elmo Seventh-day Adventist Church on three counts of intimidating a witness. According to jail records and witness accounts, several church members who had assisted law enforcement in a separate criminal investigation were subsequently stripped of their church duties and escorted off the property. The sheriff’s office alleges these actions were meant to punish cooperation with authorities.
Pastor Wagley has not been convicted of any crime, and under United States law, all defendants are presumed innocent unless and until proven guilty in a court of law. Details of the case are still emerging, and further developments may clarify or alter the current understanding of events.
The arrest is an uncommon example of witness intimidation charges emerging from a church dispute.
Alabama law does not require threats or violence to …
Don’t go to church there’s no forgiveness for you. Even christians want to persecute you. Such hypocrites.