UPDATE:: Trenton church pastor Terry Wells faces insurance fraud indictmentA man of God who recently confessed to theft by deception has started paying back some of the $12,000 he owes in restitution.
A self-ordained pastor who recently confessed to stealing $12,000 has new criminal charges to answer.
The Rev. Terry Wells, 42, of Trenton, got indicted last Friday by a grand jury of his peers, this time getting slapped with one count of third-degree insurance fraud.
“I don’t even know anything about the indictment,” Wells said Tuesday when The Trentonian asked whether he had any comments. “They said I had a co-defendant. I don’t have a co-defendant. I am not guilty for nothing.”
The Rev. Terry Wells, 42, pastor of My Brother’s Keeper Outreach Ministries, duped a family into financial loss over two years ago but appeared in Mercer County Superior Court on Friday to try to make things right.
Dressed up in a suit and tie, Wells formally presented the victimized family with $5,300 via cashier’s check on Friday. He still owes $6,700, and the state has the right to terminate his plea agreement and prosecute him on numerous counts of credit card theft, forgery and theft by deception if he fails to pay the balance by Jan. 5, 2018.
Wells gained the trust of the local family through his ministry and then exploited them as the unwitting victims of his deception. The whole shebang is presented as a misdemeanor under his plea agreement, but the pastor was originally accused of achieving self-enrichment through a staggering set of devilish deeds.
Trenton pastor steals from local family by deception, must pay $12K restitution
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