56-year-old John Skeen of Polk City was arrested by the Polk County Sheriff’s Office on Sunday morning, March 12th.
Skeen had a warrant for his arrest out of Hillsborough County for fatally shooting a man on March 10th.
There’s much more to the story though. Much, much more. In fact, you could say that the devil is in the details.
PCSO deputies went to a church in Polk City, after learning that Skeen may be there.
Deputies managed to get Skeen outside of the church without disrupting the service.
Skeen asked Sergeant Evans (the same sergeant who made news last week by assisting a woman giving birth in her car) if he could go back inside for the rest of the service so he could “dedicate his life to the Lord before going to jail.”
Of course there was no way Sgt Evans could allow that, but the sergeant told Skeen that they could take a moment to pray together before going to the Sheriff’s Processing Center to be booked-in.
And that’s just what they did. Suspect and deputy prayed together outside of the church, and then off he went to jail.
One more interesting note about this story is that this particular church had a guest speaker at that service—Sheriff Grady Judd.