Impostor pastor?

Washington County residents were shocked this week to learn that a pastor and his wife who had been living in Jonesport for several months were arrested on kidnapping charges. The Washington County Sheriff's Office has said that Colin Haag, Jr., and Amanda Haag were hiding her two biological daughters, ages 7 and 12, from their biological father.
The tale, as told Wednesday by the Bangor Daily News, is fairly sordid. The couple has been accused of:

• Moving around the country to keep the girls away from their father, who lives in Myrtle Beach, S.C.
• Bringing the pastor's father, Colin Haag, Sr., with them on their itinerant travels, having him use an alias, and keeping him captive in the basement wherever they lived.
• Stealing items from churches in western Washington County
• Telling parishioners that Colin Haag, Jr., is an ordained minister, though he is not.
  
• Never getting divorced from other spouses they lived with previously.
  

The alleged web of misrepresentations and deceit came unraveled, according to the paper, when Haag Sr. went to police last weekend and told them the couple had left the girls at the Eagle's Lodge Motel in Ellsworth. Police found the girls there alone, and then arrested Haag Jr. and his wife. The girls since have been reunited with their biological father, police said.
According to the sheriff, the Haags were preparing to pack up for another distant destination when they were arrested. There also have been suggestions that Haag Jr. may have misrepresented his military background, according to the BDN.
But some of those allegations already are in dispute. Francis Cassidy, who represents Amanda Haag, told the paper Thursday that his client was not hiding her daughters from their father, whose name (according to Associated Press) is Randall Hodges. Cassidy acknowledged, however, that even if she wasn't trying to conceal the girls' location, Amanda Haag might not have had permission to move her daughters around the country. He said his client appears to still be legally married to the girls' father, though she's also married to Haag Jr.
Cassidy said Haag Jr. is a minister, though he did not specifically say that the claim that Haag never was ordained is not true. He did say it is not true the Haags were preparing to hit the road again. They simply were getting ready to move into another rental in Jonesport, he said.

So, is it a case of actual law-breaking, of perhaps more-than-inappropriate but not-quite-illegal behavior, or just an unfortunate series of misunderstandings and misassumptions? Whatever the final, official version turns out to be, the allegations are eye-popping, especially for a rural and fairly conservative area where scandals of this magnitude are unheard of.

Incidentally, this is the second tragic tale in the area in the past week. On April 14, the body of one of two adult brothers was found floating off Bois Bubert Island in Milbridge, a few days after the two had gone out to the island for a weekend trip, according to an article in Fenceviewer. The body of the second brother, who also is believed to have drowned, has not been found.