Police say minister littered with porn

A Greenwood minister has been cited with 20 counts of littering after boxes once containing pornography were found in an alley behind a beauty shop. The alley also was littered with hard-core pornography magazines. Madison Avenue Church of God Pastor Allen D. Henderson admitted sporadically tossing bags containing the boxes from his car, Greenwood Police Detective Eric Klinkowski said. Klinkowski said he mailed the littering tickets to Henderson`s home Friday. Employees at Gabriel`s hair salon, 150 N. Madison Ave., have found dozens of empty boxes. "It went on forever," said Gabriel`s owner Julie Worsham. "Sometimes it was two or three times a week, and sometimes it was multiple times a day." Worsham said she became paranoid. "We didn`t know if we had a stalker or what," she said. "We were worried about leaving at night. We were suspicious every time we had a new man who would come in, wondering if he was the one." The items, Worsham said, "were placed, not tossed, into the alley." One of the shop`s neighbors found a plastic bag containing pornography and placed it in a trash can. "And somebody came back and placed it where we would definitely find it," Worsham said. The Johnson County prosecutor determined the acts were littering, Klinkowski said. The earliest report to Greenwood police was Nov. 27. The number of incidents increased this year, Klinkowski said. Police staked out the alley. They had the empty boxes fingerprinted. Klinkowski said a receipt led to a video store near Stop 11 Road and Madison Avenue. A clerk did not know the name of the man who made the purchase but said he was a regular customer. The next time the man returned to the store, the clerk asked to see identification. The man refused. However, the clerk saw a name on a card in the man`s wallet and noted his vehicle description. "It was a process of elimination of people who had the same name, and I narrowed it down to the pastor of the church," Klinkowski said.