GRIFFIN, Ga. (11 Alive) Griffin Police Tuesday announced the recent arrest of a pastor for charges of false imprisonment.
The police department told 11Alive that 55-year-old Curtis Bankston and his wife were using their home as an unlicensed group home, where at least 8 individuals ranging in age from 23 to 65 were being kept.
Most if not all of the individuals were mentally or physically disabled and could not care for themselves, according to police.
Early Thursday morning Griffin Fire responded to the home on Valley Road for a patient having a seizure.
Firefighters found the door to the basement was dead-bolted and needed to go through a window to reach the patient in the basement. Based on what they saw, the fire department then called Griffin Police.