GREENSBORO — A Greensboro pastor who began what’s now a well-liked “soul seafood” restaurant in his yard is being held with out bail within the Guilford County jail on repeated failures to seem in courtroom over practically decade-old unpaid loans.
A bench warrant was issued for Seafood Future proprietor Anthony Knotts by Guilford County Senior Resident Superior Courtroom Choose John O. Craig III on Feb. 18 after he didn’t present up for a Jan. 3 courtroom date — the most recent in a string of missed courtroom dates — over these money owed, together with one that started off as a $4,915 mortgage in 2012 that has accrued greater than $10,000 in curiosity, in accordance with courtroom information.
Knotts, who has been in jail since March 2, is scheduled to seem earlier than Craig on Monday.
Nobody on the church or the restaurant might be reached for remark. It’s unclear if he has an lawyer.
Knotts additionally has an unrelated courtroom look scheduled for later this month for 2 felony nugatory examine prices totaling $19,000 to Efficiency Meals Service of Hickory, the place an official there declined remark. In North Carolina, it’s a felony to put in writing a nugatory examine over $2,000. That courtroom look is March 28.
An ordained minister for greater than 20 years and the chief of The Embassy Church, Knotts in any other case has largely previous dashing and visitors offenses on his driving report.