SMITHERS – A few people here still have a kind word for the way he rocked for Jesus on his Christian Power Hour radio show.
But most just sadly shake their heads in memory of the Christian hipster in ever-present sunglasses who roared into town in the spring of '99, tossing out Bible passages and can't-lose deals faster than the Lexus and Mercedes he claimed to own in California.
Bryan Richards, whose real name turned out to be Richard Bryan Minard, was a smooth-talking, weightlifting, Internet-surfing evangelical most recently from Los Angeles — who had long been evading police hunts in the U.S. He finally met his match in a town he liked to put down as Hicksville, Canada.
Minard told everyone in Smithers they could trust him because he was a Christian. While comforting people with lines like, "Don't despair, God's always there," Minard had a complex operation running out of Canada, hustling people from Vancouver to California, Illinois to Idaho.
He sold time-shares in resorts he didn't own, vacation and wilderness packages he never paid for and Christian music recording sessions that never happened. He ran a dubious Christian dating scheme and pirated music for his Christian Power Hour, which he used to make connections and money. This is not to mention harassing women and threatening to beat up a man.
But most just sadly shake their heads in memory of the Christian hipster in ever-present sunglasses who roared into town in the spring of '99, tossing out Bible passages and can't-lose deals faster than the Lexus and Mercedes he claimed to own in California.
Bryan Richards, whose real name turned out to be Richard Bryan Minard, was a smooth-talking, weightlifting, Internet-surfing evangelical most recently from Los Angeles — who had long been evading police hunts in the U.S. He finally met his match in a town he liked to put down as Hicksville, Canada.
Minard told everyone in Smithers they could trust him because he was a Christian. While comforting people with lines like, "Don't despair, God's always there," Minard had a complex operation running out of Canada, hustling people from Vancouver to California, Illinois to Idaho.
He sold time-shares in resorts he didn't own, vacation and wilderness packages he never paid for and Christian music recording sessions that never happened. He ran a dubious Christian dating scheme and pirated music for his Christian Power Hour, which he used to make connections and money. This is not to mention harassing women and threatening to beat up a man.
SMITHERS – A few people here still have a kind word for the way he rocked for Jesus on his Christian Power Hour radio show.
But most just sadly shake their heads in memory of the Christian hipster in ever-present sunglasses who roared into town in the spring of '99, tossing out Bible passages and can't-lose deals faster than the Lexus and Mercedes he claimed to own in California.
Bryan Richards, whose real name turned out to be Richard Bryan Minard, was a smooth-talking, weightlifting, Internet-surfing evangelical most recently from Los Angeles — who had long been evading police hunts in the U.S. He finally met his match in a town he liked to put down as Hicksville, Canada.
Minard told everyone in Smithers they could trust him because he was a Christian. While comforting people with lines like, "Don't despair, God's always there," Minard had a complex operation running out of Canada, hustling people from Vancouver to California, Illinois to Idaho.
He sold time-shares in resorts he didn't own, vacation and wilderness packages he never paid for and Christian music recording sessions that never happened. He ran a dubious Christian dating scheme and pirated music for his Christian Power Hour, which he used to make connections and money. This is not to mention harassing women and threatening to beat up a man.
But most just sadly shake their heads in memory of the Christian hipster in ever-present sunglasses who roared into town in the spring of '99, tossing out Bible passages and can't-lose deals faster than the Lexus and Mercedes he claimed to own in California.
Bryan Richards, whose real name turned out to be Richard Bryan Minard, was a smooth-talking, weightlifting, Internet-surfing evangelical most recently from Los Angeles — who had long been evading police hunts in the U.S. He finally met his match in a town he liked to put down as Hicksville, Canada.
Minard told everyone in Smithers they could trust him because he was a Christian. While comforting people with lines like, "Don't despair, God's always there," Minard had a complex operation running out of Canada, hustling people from Vancouver to California, Illinois to Idaho.
He sold time-shares in resorts he didn't own, vacation and wilderness packages he never paid for and Christian music recording sessions that never happened. He ran a dubious Christian dating scheme and pirated music for his Christian Power Hour, which he used to make connections and money. This is not to mention harassing women and threatening to beat up a man.
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