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Thursday, November 19, 2009 11:00 AM

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Local pastor Robert Kenton Mathews, Ottawa, leaves the Franklin County District Court building Tuesday afternoon after jury selection. Mathews was acquitted Wednesday morning of theft charges by Judge Eric Godderz.

Local pastor acquitted of theft charges

By JENALEA MYERS, Herald Night News Editor

Judge Eric Godderz admitted it didn’t make sense.

It didn’t make sense why Robert Kenton Mathews, an Ottawa pastor accused of theft, returned some valuable items after moving an elderly couple but neglected to return a cigar box of gold coins, he said.

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