Pastor Revealed as Registered Sex Offender After Arrest for Possessing Firearm as a Convicted Felon

Peter Ventura
Screengrab via Facebook / @Marilyn Maxwell

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The other 15 charges related to the accusation that Ventura “sexually assaulted a fourteen-year-old girl while free on bond on the first set of charges. These counts alleged that, after driving the girl around in his car, [Ventura] took her to a wooded area where he threatened her with a razor and sexually assaulted her.”

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While Ventura originally agreed to plead guilty to just two counts, he later disputed the terms of the plea agreement with a habeas corpus petition. When the petition was granted, he was released on bond pending retrial. 

While out on that release in 1991, Ventura “was arrested on fresh charges of first degree aggravated sexual assault and first degree kidnapping.”

Ventura was released from prison in 2010. 

In an interview with FOX61 last week, Ventura said that he has “done everything that a fella can do to rehab his life.”

“I’ve been out for 14 years. I don’t have any record. I don’t even have a parking ticket,” he said.

Ventura also said that he thought he was legally allowed to possess the pistol and that he had even checked with local police to confirm it. 

When police officers stopped Ventura to take him into custody, they also determined that his car was not registered, so it was towed from the scene. 

Ventura has been released on a $25,000 bond. He is set to appear in court on July 15. 

First Baptist Woodbury held service on Sunday (July 7) in what appeared to be a makeshift meeting space. The service was live streamed to Facebook by Marilyn Maxwell, who according to her profile has been married to Ventura since 2011.  

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ChurchLeaders has reached out to Peter Ventura for comment and will update this article in the event of a response. 

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