Jesse Amen, a California man who slipped past law officers and entered the compound March 26, was being held in McLennan County jail Monday on a charge of interfering with the duty of a police officer. He also is being held without bond as a material witness, a jail spokeswoman said.
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Swensen said 40-year-old Amen told authorities his father’s name is Lord Lightning Amen. He said he has brothers named David, Jacob and Abraham.
Whether Lord Lightning Amen is the 40-year-old man’s father is uncertain, but the Press-Enterprise in Riverside, Calif. say a man who goes by Lightning Amen was a one-time cult leader convicted of possession and transportation of methamphetamines.
Daniel Sandoval
Jul 10, 2006
25 years ago
Toil not - Christ Family members arrived and were quickly asked to move on in the second week of July 1981. The founder of the group was a man named Charles Franklin McHugh who wandered out of the California desert one day and dubbed himself Jesus Christ Lightning Amen.
That guy who called himself Jesse Amen, was mentally ill. His real name was not Jesse Amen. He was so crazy he was asked to leave by the Branch Davidians.
ReplyDeleteHis name is not Jesse Amen it is Scott Kortum from Brookings, Oregon and he is still crazy.
ReplyDeleteThat dude who called himself Jesse Amen was very deluded.
ReplyDeleteHe thought he was a savior of sorts. Not. He was and is a crazy asshole.
He was never called Jesse Amen in the Christ Family cult. He was known as Scotty.