Warrants Pending for Ladson Pastor

The Ladson pastor charged by North Charleston police with a July kidnapping and a 2010 sexual assault also has additional warrants pending with the Summerville police. 

Dale Richardson of Summerville has warrants pending for kidnapping from a June 21 incident, Public Information Officer Capt. Jon Rogers confirmed today. 

Currently in Charleston County Detention custody, Richardson's bond was set at $1 million, according to this story. 

Richardson is a pastor at Freedom Freewill Baptist Church in Ladson.

All three of the alleged victims are short white women, around 5 feet tall. The two incidents in the charges with North Charleston police are with women in their 20s. The Summerville police incident occurred with a woman in her late 30s.

The June 21 incident alleges a white man drew a gun on a woman after soliciting sex in the Lakes of Summerville. 

The alleged victim described a white man, about 50 years old, with short salt-and-pepper hair and a goatee. She described his vehicle as a newer, white four-door truck with grey interior. This is the same vehicle description of. 

According to the Summerville incident report, the woman asked the suspect for a ride. At a Kangaroo Express, the suspect allegedly propositioned the woman for sex. The woman said she wasn't sure, and the man said he knew of a place in Ladson.

In the incident report, it is speculated that this location is off of Carolina Commerce Parkway.

While driving to the location, the suspect allegedly told the woman he was originally from Jacksonville, Fla. 

When the car stopped down a dirt road, the woman said the suspect allegedly drew a gun.

"Please don't kill me," the woman said, according to the incident report. She described then ducking her head between her knees for several minutes.

The man eventually told her to get out of the truck and the woman ran off into the woods, finally running to 102 Coosawatchie St. and requesting help, according to the report. She left her tote bag with some items in it in the suspect's truck.

The describes a strikingly similar event to the July 27 incident. 

In both the Aug. 12, 2010, and more recent incident, a young woman had a dark cloth bag placed over her head and she was driven to a mobile home in an unknown location where she was allegedly raped, according to the reports.

Afterward, the suspect then drove the women back to Carolina Commerce Parkway where he drew a gun on them and told them to get out of the vehicle. 

While the 2010 incident was with a self-described prostitute and the June 27 incident in Summerville was with a woman who went along with a proposition for sex, it is unknown if the woman in most-recent assault and kidnapping was with the perpatrator willingly or not.