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BATON ROUGE, La. — A well-known Baton Rouge televangelist has died. The Rev. Jimmy Swaggart died on Tuesday after he suffered cardiac arrest on June 15.

The Rev. Jimmy Swaggart, who built one of the nation's biggest broadcast ministries in the 1980s from his Baton Rouge headquarters, died Tuesday.

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An ambulance was stolen from Baton Rouge General Mid City Hospital early Wednesday morning, but was later recovered.

The investigation was initiated when LSP SVU received a case referral from the FBI involving sexual exploitation of a 15-year-old child.

The announcement comes after Swaggart suffered a cardiac arrest at his Baton Rouge home and was hospitalized in mid-June.

Televangelist Rev. Jimmy Swaggart died at the age of 90, two weeks after he suffered a heart attack.

Ross added that service expansions to Baton Rouge and Shreveport could be in the works in the next few years. "Every city has a benefit from this," Ross said, calling Louisiana "a leader" in the ...