The pastor, Alphonso Joseph, describes himself as “Overseer Alphonso Joseph” on his Facebook page, which features photos of him in clerical robes.
Flagler County Sheriff’s Office deputies arrested Joseph after finding him performing a sex act on the underage boy at 10:25 p.m., according to Joseph’s arrest report.
PASTOR CAUGHT IN THE BACK SEAT WITH
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The deputies were responding to an unrelated noise complaint about loud music at the golf course when they noticed Joseph’s parked Camry was shaking.
When a deputy approached and shined a flashlight at it, deputies found Joseph and the boy in the backseat, pulling up their pants, according to the report.
Deputies spoke to the two separately, and discovered that the teen was 15.
Observer Local News reports: The teen said that he’d met Joseph on Grindr and that Joseph had performed a sex act on him in the car.
Joseph at first said the two had been “just chillin’” in the car and that he’d taken off his shirt because it was hot out. But he later admitted to performing a sex act on the boy, telling deputies that the 15-year-old had said that he was 18.
Deputies arrested Joseph.
He is charged with lewd and lascivious battery on a victim 12-16 years of old.
