Authorities in Florida have arrested megachurch pastor Rodney Howard-Browne for continuing to hold church services in defiance of a county stay-at-home order, the Tampa Bay Times reported.
Howard-Browne heads up The River at Tampa Bay Church and had received warnings about encouraging large gatherings during the ongoing COVID-19 outbreak, and police felt compelled to arrest him after he continued to defy both those warnings and the orders from county officials.