The family was taken into custody on an unrelated immigration charge but released the next day when the case was dismissed, according to court records. The Edwards family’s New Smyrna Beach home. They were speeding on I-75 north of Gainesville, according to a police report.įederal agents arrived on the scene and found bags of shredded documents in the vehicle, as well as suitcases full of financial records and their electronic devices stuffed into so-called Faraday bags, which block radio frequencies to keep them from being tracked, according to the civil forfeiture complaint. They settled in a newly built community about an hour’s drive from Orlando. In September 2020, federal agents showed up at the home to execute a search warrant but no one was there and the place had been “cleared out,” according to the civil forfeiture complaint.įlorida police officers pulled over the family’s Mercedes SUV later that evening. The Edwards family did missionary work in Turkey for many years before moving to Florida in 2019. "I'm glad they got arrested," said a neighbor, who requested anonymity due to the sensitivity of the case. They were expected to appear in federal court in Orlando on Wednesday afternoon. The two men, who are originally from Canada, were hit with a total of six charges, including conspiracy to commit bank fraud and visa fraud. Obtained by NBC NewsĪ six-count indictment unsealed Wednesday accuses them of making a series of false claims in their PPP loan application, including that ASLAN International had 486 employees and average monthly payroll expenses of $2.7 million.Įvan and Josh Edwards knew that ASLAN's actual number of employees and actual monthly payroll expenses were "significantly lower, or entirely nonexistent," says the indictment prosecutors filed in the Middle District of Florida. Josh Edwards is taken into custody Wednesday outside the Edwards family’s New Smyrna Beach home. Agents escorted Josh Edwards out of the home and into a law enforcement vehicle, his hands cuffed behind his back. ![]() Will Faithful Roman Catholics go to heaven from Canon Wired on Vimeo. Wednesday.Įvan Edwards was wheeled out of the house in a wheelchair. In an article titled Doug Wilson says faithful Catholics will go to hell, David Meyer recently posted a video in which Doug Wilson, pastor of Christ Church in Moscow, Idaho responded to the question, Will faithful Roman Catholics be in Heaven. The man who was listed on the loan application as the ministry’s accountant suffered from dementia and hadn’t done any work for the organization since 2017, federal prosecutors said in court papers, citing an interview with the man’s son.įederal agents descended on the family's home in New Smyrna Beach about 7 a.m. The Evans family: from left, son Josh, Pastor Evan, wife Mary Jane and daughter Joy. ![]() A review of the ministry’s website found that the donation links were inactive and sections of text were apparently lifted from other religious sites, according to the complaint. ![]() But when federal investigators showed up at the ministry's office in Orlando, the door was locked and workers at the neighboring businesses told them nobody was ever seen inside, the complaint says.
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