Tony Alamo, a self-proclaimed pastor and child rapist who owned Sierra Highway property in Acton and had an online ministry in his name despite a 175-year federal prison sentence for sex crimes against children, died Wednesday. He was 82. Don’t miss a thing. Get breaking KHTS Santa Clarita News Alerts delivered right to your inbox. Alamo, aka Bernie LaZar Hoffman, was convicted ...

A Texarkana lawyer seeking compensation for the victims of a pastor convicted of sex crimes against children said he’ll likely be seeking Tony Alamo’s Santa Clarita Valley properties in October. In the meantime, followers at Tony Alamo's Santa Clarita Valley properties on Sierra Highway continue to carry on the church in the name of Alamo. Santa Clarita Valley parking lots are still peppered with flyers about his ministry. Attorney W. David Carter said he’s been litigating properties for the victims of Alamo, whose real name is Bernie Lazar Hoffman, for nearly five years.

A lawyer for victims of Tony Alamo, a former evangelist convicted of taking underage girls across state lines for the purpose of sex, discussed recently how Alamo’s abuse victims could soon receive a portion of the more-than half-billion-dollar judgment against Alamo. Alamo, who’s known in the federal prison system as Bernie Lazar Hoffman, is 79 years old, and approximately four years into a 175-year prison sentence. His prison term was the end result a 2008 arrest warrant federal agents executed on several properties reportedly controlled by Alamo’s ministries -- including a Santa Clarita Valley lot in Saugus -- which are at the heart of a recent court dispute.