OAK HARBOR, Wash. (AP) — A pastor who stole Oso landslide donations was sentenced last week.
Pastor Gary Ray was sentenced to 18 months in prison for a series of swindles totaling over $150,000.
The funds and donations were stolen from Oso families, collection plates and his own church congregations in Snohomish and Island counties when Ray placed them in an account that only he had access to.
The Highway 530 landslide killed 43 people when it swallowed a square mile, including an entire neighborhood, along the North Fork Stillaguamish River, with no warning, in March 2014.