Pastor Kenneth Sharpton Glasgow, the half-brother of Rev. Al Sharpton, has been sentenced to thirty months in prison for embezzlement, Social Security fraud, tax evasion, and Drug trafficking and he’s not done yet as he still has to stand trial for assaulting a police officer. Kenneth Sharpton Glasgow pleaded guilty to charges relating to embezzling $407,000 from a TOPS non-profit and another non-profit called the Prodigal Child. Glasgow conspired with another man to distribute cocaine.
Rev. Al Sharpton's pastor brother jailed for 30 months
https://t.co/5JdywqdQBN— Wendy Kortepeter (@WKortepeter) July 10, 2023
Per The Christian Post:
Pastor Kenneth Sharpton Glasgow, the troubled younger half-brother of civil rights activist Al Sharpton and founder of felon voting rights advocacy organization, The Ordinary People Society in Dothan, Alabama, was sentenced to 30 months in prison Thursday for drug trafficking, income tax evasion, and lying to obtain Social Security disability benefits.
VISIT OUR YOUTUBE CHANNELGlasgow, 58, who also runs Kenny Sharpton-Glasgow Ministries International, previously pleaded guilty to the charges, News 4 reported. “As far as we’re concerned it was a fair sentence,” Jim Parkman, one of Glasgow’s defense attorneys, told the news outlet after the sentencing hearing.
Glasgow pleaded guilty to embezzling $407,000 from TOPS and another nonprofit he founded called the Prodigal Child Project. The prosecutor in Glasgow’s case alleged that he may have taken more than $1 million from his nonprofits without reporting the income, but U.S. District Judge R. Austin Huffaker rejected that claim.
"Rev. Al Sharpton's pastor brother is jailed for 30 months for drug trafficking, tax evasion and lying to obtain Social Security benefits"
Took charity $ too! Extra sick: They’re half brothers and Al’s sister was the mother while Al’s DAD was the father. https://t.co/hRZSKzozMu
— Robby Starbuck (@robbystarbuck) July 11, 2023
Glasgow was previously charged with capital murder back in 2018 but a Houston County, Alabama Grand Jury dropped the charges in 2021.
The Grand Jury ruled “there is insufficient evidence to establish enough probable cause to take Reverend Kenneth Glasgow to trial for the capital murder charge” of 23 year old, Breunia Jennings.
The con-artist pastor, who also runs Kenny Sharpton-Glasgow Ministries International, also pled guilty to conspiring with another man, Willie Frank Peterson, to distribute cocaine. That case is still pending, as per the news outlet.
Previous crimes include an alleged assault on a police officer who reportedly tried to remove the illegal drugs Glasgow had been hiding in his mouth during a traffic stop.
He is scheduled to appear in court later this month regarding the assault charge, but his camp believes that the other charges he is facing will be dropped, News 4 reported.
In March 2018, Glasgow was taken into custody with 26-year-old Jaime Townes after the body of 23-year-old Breunia Jennings was found in a wrecked car in Alabama.
Jennings had been shot in the head and pronounced dead at the scene. Police said they believe Townes was angry at Jennings because he believed she had stolen his car.
Authorities said numerous shots were fired at the vehicle Jennings was driving and police believe Townes fired those shots.
Glasgow later appeared in court and questioned the murder charge against him.
‘I don’t know why I am facing capital murder charges,’ Glasgow stated, as per The Dothan Eagle.
‘I’m not responsible for what someone else does. He just asked me for a ride to take him to look for his car.’
