A Salina man who was convicted for raiding a church collection plate in 2008 has been arrested for stealing a credit card from another local church.

Curtis L. Jackson, 24, of 1115 E. Iron No. 31, was arrested in connection with the Thursday theft of a credit card from Christ Cathedral, 138 S. Eighth.

Jerry S. Jones, of Hays, reported that someone took a credit card from his briefcase and used it to purchase $84 in food from the downtown Sonic restaurant, said Carson Mansfield, deputy chief of the Salina Police Department. Jackson was booked into the Saline County Jail on Monday night.

On June 22, 2008, the Rev. Carlos Ruiz found a man taking money out of a collection basket at Sacred Heart Cathedral, 118 N. Ninth. He was not a member of the congregation and got away with an estimated $15.

Ruiz locked the man in a room and called police, but before officers arrived, the man got out of a window that was 10 to 12 feet above the ground.

In July, when Jackson showed up on crutches for a meeting with his probation officer, police put his picture in a lineup, and he was arrested after being identified.

Jackson pleaded guilty to aggravated burglary and received 36 months of probation.

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just help the kid says....
lets all be church goers and just let the kid go free.... omg the kids needs help lets help him and spend 40724048 dollers to send him to prison this is such a joke... i would even pay the church back for him to help him out.. this is just the way he is saying he needs a little help
10/25/2009

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mistified in salina says....
Wow stealing from the biggest organized what? what was he thinking?
10/23/2009

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Mom_of_2 says....
That is just wrong stealing from the House of God! These people should get a good hard sentence for these kind of crime! How disgusting!
10/21/2009

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Galatians 6:7 says....
"Be not deceived; God is not mocked: for whatsoever a man soweth, that shall he also reap." In my naivety, I used to think it a CRIME that a CHURCH had to LOCK its DOORS... what a people we have become... yet God said He will not be mocked.
10/21/2009

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salina home owner says....
Wow, his parents must be proud!!
10/21/2009

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