‘Sound Of Freedom’s Angel Studios Responds To Reports Of Pic Crowdfunder’s Arrest On Child Kidnapping; Accused’s Attorney Says Charges “Unfounded”
deadline.comEXCLUSIVE: There was a lot of noise surrounding the right state-beloved, $163M-grossing summer surprise hit, Sound of Freedom, this morning with Newsweek reporting that one of the pic’s 6,678 crowdfunders was arrested for child kidnapping by the St.
Louis Metropolitan Police. Now just to be clear, we’re talking one person who contributed an unidentified amount of money to the $5M P&A crowdfunding campaign put together by Angel Studios.
The person charged, 51-year-old Fabian Marta of Chesterfield Missouri on July 23, was not a financier of the actual feature production.
Deadline confirmed the arrest with the St. Louis Metropolitan Police per Case # 2322-CR01608. Note child kidnapping and sex trafficking, the latter subject which Sound of Freedom focuses on (via the story of former Homeland Security agent Tim Ballard, who took rescuing abducted children into his own hands), are two different types of crimes.
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