A 30-year-old former parishioner of Mount Moriah Church of God Holiness was arrested for allegedly threatening gunfire at the Dearborn congregation.
His Facebook post last week caused morning and afternoon services to be canceled last Sunday as a precaution, WWJ reports.
The 30-year-old defendant's family worships at the Chase Road church in Dearborn.
Here's what the station learned from Dearborn police:
Lt. Patricia Penman said Kevin Bright wrote on the social media website that he was going to take a pistol to Dearborn’s Mt. Moriah Church and “testify.”
Penman said police interviewed several people.
“I can’t get into the specifics of the threat itself, but with the other information that we gathered from our investigation and some follow-up interviews, we thought it was a credible threat,” she told WWJ Newsradio 950. . . . "There were some things recovered from the home.”
Bright, whose family worships at the Chase Road church, was arraigned Tuesday on charges making a false report or threat of terrorism and use of a computer to commit a crime. Judge Sam Salamey of 19th District Couyrt will decide at a preliminary examination next Friday whether the case proceeds to trial in Wayne County Circuit Court, Joe Slezak writes in the Dearborn Press & Guide.
Lt. Penman told the radio station no gun was found at Bright's home.
