Part Two: The Throat-Slitting Evangelical Minister of Jamaica
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Who is the other Kevin Smith?
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So we're back. As I noted last episode, the bad Kevin Smith had founded KOS Deliverance International around the year 2000. And when he fled to Jamaica, violating the terms of his probation, he brought it with him. Now that Canadian magazine, The Walrus, reported that he'd been going back and forth from Jamaica for a while at this point. So he had some sort of an established presence there at different evangelical churches. And once he was on the run, he established a permanent base of operations in downtown Montego Bay. He reconnected with a childhood friend there from Jamaica College named Charlton, who had remained in the country when Smith went off to Canada and had become a pastor himself in the area.
Charlton served as a useful early source of connections while Kevin built up his flock, But he also had a sizable head start by the time he moved there full times, thanks to his years of international work. Charlton later claimed that Smith told him early on he'd started ministering to Portia Simpson Miller, the prime minister. And he would also sometimes add vaguely that he talked to with other government officials. So he's from a very early state claiming to be ministering personally to like high level politicians in Jamaica. and have a lot of connections in the local government. And there's some evidence this is true, including the fact that he really does not get investigated for any of his criminal history to the degree that you might expect of somebody who comes into Jamaica, out of Canada, and immediately starts up a large and influential church.
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