UPDATE, 6pm Wednesday: A request with the Texas Department of Public Safety Criminal Records Division found Herman Lewis has been arrested multiple times in the state of Texas between 1980 and 1995 for:

--theft of groceries valued at less than $20.00 in 1980

--writing a bogus check in 1981

--misdemeanor forgery in 1988 (convicted)

--theft of property between $1500 and $20,000 in 1995 (convicted), in which a judge recommended Lewis stay away from liquor stores, is not allowed to have or buy a firearm, must report all sources of income, and participate in an alcohol and drug treatment program

UPDATE, 3pm Tuesday: 49-year-old Rev. Herman Lewis appeared in Spokane Co. Superior Court this afternoon on charges of assault and attempted kidnapping. According to court documents, Lewis told detectives he went to the Shari's Restaurant near Indiana and Monroe to meet a woman to have sex with.

Lewis also told police he had been living "a double life" since turning 19 by having sex with prostitutes and regularly using crack cocaine and PCP.

Watch KREM 2 News at 5 & 6 for live reports on this developing story.

UPDATE, 9:30pm Spokane County Jail officials say Herman Lewis is still at the jail, but in lockdown because he was considered combative and a threat to himself and officers when he was booked this afternoon.

According to his resume, Rev. Herman Lewis Sr. began his career as pastor near his hometown of Winnie, Texas. Between 1980 and 2003 Lewis lived in Austin and Galveston. He was a chaplain for a county jail, a local hospital, and helped build a new baptist church for 400 members. In 2003, he joined the People's Institutional Baptist Church in Seattle. Nothing on his resume has been verified.

Lewis recently reported that he left an $80,000 managerial job at a Seattle Holiday Inn to become the pastor of Spokane's Morning Star Baptist Church last year. The congregation recently moved to a building on West Rowan.

Lewis is charged with Unlawful Imprisonment and Assault.

UPDATE, 3:30pm Monday: Members of the Morning Star Baptist Church confirm 49-year-old Herman Lewis, arrested this morning after leading Spokane Police on a chase this morning, is their senior pastor. Lewis is charged with unlawful imprisonment and two counts of assault. He's now in the Spokane County Jail.

Morning Star Baptist Church

Senior Pastor Herman Lewis of the Morning Star Baptist Church in East Spokane.

SPOKANE -- One man has been arrested after a short pursuit that ended at Division and Indiana.

Officers are investigating a possible kidnapping at Shari's at Indiana an Monroe. According to police, someone tried to stop the kidnapper, and that person was assaulted by the suspect.

The suspect then fled to a nearby McDonalds. Police found his silver corvette in the parking lot. The suspect put his car in reverse striking two officers, then hit a police car.

Police say the suspect also rammed a patrol car several times. A short pursuit followed.

The man was arrested at a stop light at Indiana and Division. Police used a taser to subdue him.

He was taken to the hospital for treatment and for a mental evaluation.