RANCHO CUCAMONGA,
Calif.—A
Southern California preacher has been charged with
bigamy after his wife found his latest marriage records
Melvin Lynn Silas is the 55-year-old pastor of Church of the Great I Am in
Bellflower. He told investigators he believed he was divorced before he married again on April 26, 2008. But his estranged wife says Silas begged her not to
divorce him and she never filed court documents.
His estranged wife notified authorities after she found records on the Internet of her husband's new marriage.
Prosecutors charged Silas with felony bigamy and he has pleaded not guilty. An April 20 hearing is scheduled in
Rancho Cucamonga. He's being prosecuted in
San Bernardino County because he lived in
Upland when he married his latest wife.
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