Oklahoma police report #93-090-5282 reveals that Gerald Flurry was drunk on the Sabbath in spite of the Philadelphia Church of God stating that it strictly observes the Sabbath. I would encourage you to send away for this police report and then match Gerald Flurry's and Stephen Flurry's signatures on the police report and compare them to their signatures in The Philadelphia Trumpet. Of course, the PCG will tell you that it is "from Satan," but this will prove it's valid because the official police stamps and seals both confirm it. 

The following quotes are taken from this police report. If anyone needs to confirm the arrest, they can phone the University of Oklahoma Police Department. They will also give you the phone number of the Court Clerk who will verify it is in the public records. (Read letter from former PCG member who did phone them.)

View the police report as a .PDF file (offsite link; file takes awhile to load) If this doesn't open, go to the main site and search for the words "Police Report" and then under that click on Case File (pdf).

Email ESN for a hardcopy of the 7-page police report.

Following are relevant sections from the seven page police report, which was obtained by the Exit and Support Network™.
 

INFORMATION                                                                  CM-9302453

IN THE DISTRICT COURT, IN AND FOR OKLAHOMA COUNTY, STATE OF OKLAHOMA
THE STATE OF OKLAHOMA

VS.                                    PLAINTIFF, 
                                                               

GERALD RAY FLURRY                                                    INFORMATION

                                                               DEFENDANT.

          IN THE NAME AND BY THE AUTHORITY OF THE STATE OF OKLAHOMA, COMES NOW ROBERT H. MACY THE FULLY ELECTED, QUALIFIED AND ACTING DISTRICT ATTORNEY IN AND FOR OKLAHOMA COUNTY, DISTRICT NO. 7, STATE OF OKLAHOMA, AND ON HIS OFFICIAL OATH INFORMS THE DISTRICT COURT THAT

 
(The word "Saturday" in brackets below is mine):   

NARRATIVE SUPPLEMENTAL -- FOLLOW-UP                            PAGE 4

AGENCY NAME                                                           INCIDENT NUMBER
University of Central Oklahoma Police Dept.  OK 0551700       93-09-0065

NARRATIVE:

On 9-18-1993 at approximately 2222 an officer found a white male subject person passed out behind the wheel of the listed vehicle in the commuter one East parking lot. This officer attempted to wake the white male occupant inside the mentioned vehicle. This officer had to repeatedly had to knock on the window of the vehicle until the male subject awakened. This officer asked the white male subject to roll down the window of the vehicle. The male subject did not seem to understand what the officer requested him to do. 

The male subject then started the vehicle and put the vehicle in drive, then reverse, then drive again. The male subject repeated this action six or seven times. The officer repeated several times very loudly for the male subject to exit the vehicle. The male subject opened the door with one foot on the brake and one on the gas pedal. The officer asked the male subject to put the vehicle in park and turn off the ignition. The male subject exited the vehicle and left the keys in the ignition. 

The officer asked the subject to provide a drivers license. The male subject stated that he did not have one. The officer asked again. The male subject then pulled his wallet from his back pocket. He pulled out a twenty dollar bill and extended his hand to the officer offering it to him. The officer repeatedly told the male subject to put the money back into his wallet and to find his drivers license. The male subject then pulled a five dollar bill from his wallet and extended his hand with the twenty dollars in it to the officer. The officer asked him to put his money away. 

At this time two Edmond Oklahoma police officers arrived at the scene to help the other officers. These officers could smell a heavy odor of liquor on the male subject's breath. The officers observed the male subject had trouble standing still without staggering. The officers noticed several open beer cans in the front seat of his vehicle that the male subject was in. The officers asked the subject if he had been drinking and the subject answered that he had been drinking. After 3 field sobriety tests the male subject failed all three. He appeared to be beyond the legal limit of 0.10% blood alcohol content. 

At approximately 2248 on 9-18-93 [SATURDAY] this officer informed the subject, later identified as Flurry, Gerald Ray that he was under arrest for APC and TOC. Flurry agreed to take further tests. Flurry's vehicle was impounded and towed to Allied Wrecker Service. The officer transported Flurry to Edmond Police Dept to be tested by a certified breathalyzer. Flurry, at this time, finally produced his driver's license and was found to be in excess of the legal limit of blood alcohol content. He was booked in the Oklahoma Jail in Oklahoma City. 

COMMENTS: This incident happened around 10pm and I believe sunset is close to 7 to 8 pm in Oklahoma in September. To be this drunk at 10-10:30 pm, it appears that Gerald Flurry must have started drinking during the Sabbath hours to be this smashed.

Gerald Flurry says in sermons that, "If there is one reason God selected me it is because I DON'T COMPROMISE!" -- Isn't offering the police cash, after all, compromising? Isn't preaching the importance of Sabbath keeping and then violating it, compromising? Isn't drunkenness against his teachings of an true man of God? Enough said....I believe he is a false teacher, like it or not! The proof is there. 

Mike
Exit & Support Network™
March 2000

What Did Flurry Tell Members About This incident?

ESN was told by a former PCG member that the following is the story Gerald Flurry gives to his members in light of this incident:

"He told us he had some guests staying at his house and he had gone out to the parking lot overlooking the college to relax and have some time alone to think, then he had a couple of beers and he fell asleep. He said the cops had charged him with drunk driving, which he thought was funny because the car wasn't actually moving, and the charge was later reduced."

The police report says that Gerald Flurry was committed to the county jail of Oklahoma County, State of Oklahoma and was to appear before the District Court to answer the charge against him. The bail was $1,250. 

The following is from the Ambassador Report #55, May 1994:

"To his followers, Flurry explained away this episode by saying the law was unfair and should be changed and by claiming that the officer who arrested him, Brandon C. Berryhill, was a WCG member (the WCG denies this). On February 23, Flurry pleaded nolo contendere to the main charge of "APC" - being in actual physical control of an automobile while intoxicated (like DUI - Driving Under the Influence) and was fined $400 plus $200 in victim's compensation plus court costs. In addition, he may face a term of incarceration. His date of sentencing has been suspended to Feb. 23, 1995. But Flurry apparently doesn't feel he will ever have to show up. He has been telling followers he expects to flee to Petra in Jordan sometime this year and perhaps as soon as June."

One person emailed us and said that they were a graduate student at the University of Central Oklahoma where this incident occurred, and they saw Gerald Flurry's name in the college paper under "arrests" a few days after the incident.

The following quote appeared in PCG's Royal Vision magazine in 2001. This is quite interesting in relation to the police report. It appears Flurry is admitting now that he drank too much alcohol and that alcohol "was getting in his way." We have no proof that he is still drinking and no proof that he isn't, but this appears to be Flurry's latest rebuttal to answer members and potential members that have questioned him about his police report for drunkenness.

".... We must examine ourselves for areas where we may be be holding back God’s work. Some of God’s people , for example, still drink too much alcohol. Yes, God sanctions and encourages the right use of alcohol. But I know that some people would be better off without it. I haven’t had a drink of alcohol in six years. Why? Because I felt I could be more effective in the work without it. Am I against alcohol? Of course not; I love to see people enjoy alcohol, as God instructs us. But if something is getting in your way, it is better to eliminate it. " Taken from Royal Vision, July-August 2001, p. 14. [emphasis ESN's]

We leave it up to God to judge Gerald Flurry. The purpose of Mike's Enlightenment Page is to help others who have suffered emotional, spiritual and financial abuse after their involvement in Philadelphia Church of God and to give out information that we hope will help others to make an intelligent choice as to whether they want to join Philadelphia Church of God.

Update: Since this report was posted, ESN has heard from two different former members who related to us that Flurry has had other arrests for drunkenness. However, we have been unable to locate any other police reports to confirm this.

This incident was mentioned in Ambassador Report #55, May 1994, page 10. John Trechak never published a retraction of that report. (Note: Please be aware that the AR is now posted on an agnostic/atheist website.)