Donny Ray Horton of Hoschton, Georgia, a minister at Gardendale First Baptist Church in Birmingham, Alabama, was sentenced to five years imprisonment yesterday in the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Alabama on charges of arson and mail fraud, according to KARE11.com. Horton allegedly set two fires at the church last year. He was also charged with defrauding the church of $78,769 for church pews, which he received in his role as a sales representative for Sauder Manufacturing, which makes seats and pews for churches.
