From Vows to Victims: Couple Says Wedding Decorator Made Off With Their Future | Crime Alert 9AM 12.04.25

A newlywed couple in Georgia is still waiting for justice after more than $10,000 in wedding donations vanished and their decorator was later arrested on a theft charge. A social media fitness influencer in Indiana now sits in jail without bond after police charged him with multiple counts of child seduction involving a 16-year-old girl. Drew Nelson reports.

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Crime Alert hourly update breaking crime news Now. I'm Drew Nelson.
A newlywed couple in Georgia is still waiting for justice
after more than ten thousand dollars in wedding donations vanished
and their decorator was later arrested on a theft charge.
The couple is Sharita and Paul McCallum. They married in
September of twenty twenty four after dating for years. They
live in McDonough, south of Atlanta. They chose an event

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hall in Midtown Atlanta for their reception, hiring wedding decorator
Candarius Powell after hearing positive reviews. You know, when you're
planning weddings, you want word of Now, those are one
of those things where you want someone you can depend on.
That's Shariita on WSB. Atlanta Police confirmed Powell was arrested
on November nineteenth of twenty twenty four. He was charged
with theft related to the case. He was released a

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few days later on a twenty five hundred dollars bond,
but the McCallum said they were not informed of the
arrest at the time. The stolen money has not been recovered.
He is scheduled to appear in court on March second.
The couple placed a honeymoon fund donation box at their
wedding reception and for family and friends, cash gifts were
added throughout the night. Near the end of the reception,

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Paul McCallum began hearing complaints about the decorator's behavior by
the bars, drinking off the oil clad and I think
you're a little being intoxicated. I want him to leave,
but Paul allowed the director to stay at the reception.
The next day, the couple realized the honeymoon fund box
was gone. They estimated it held more than ten thousand dollars.

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Paul returned to the venue to search for it. When
the box could not be found, he reviewed the building's
surveillance footage. When I saw it, the years on my
skin went up, Paul says. The video showed the decorator
bringing a tablecloth into the space. He then watched him
leave with a black box partially wrapped inside. The mccallums
filed a criminal complaint with the Atlanta Police Department. Paul

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contacted the decorator and tried to make a meeting and say, hey,
be a man, you know, you know let's meet at
the station, let's talk about it, he refused. He never
showed up. The couple did eventually go on their honeymoon
without the missing money. They say the loss was painful
for their entire family. They are now trying to focus
on the good memories from their wedding day while the

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case moves through court. More crime and justice news after this.
A social media fitness influencer in Indiana sits in jail
without bond after police charge him with multiple counts of
child seduction involving a sixteen year old girl. Brian Kyle

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Divine is forty four. He's known online as Kaizen diy Jim.
Police arrested him on November twenty sixth at his home
on Indianapolis's North Side. He was officially charged this week
with six felony counts of child seduction and one misdemeanor
count of contributing to the delinquency of a minor. He's
being held in the Marion County Jail, with his next

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court date set for the twelfth. Indianapolis police were called
to Divine's home November twenty sixth to investigate a reported rate.
Officers found Divine in the basement and took him into custody.
Detectives interviewed a sixteen year old girl who said she
had three separate sexual encounters with Divine after they got drunk.
The girl had been helping Divine set up a home

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gym at a warehouse on the city's west side. One
encounter allegedly happened at the warehouse in October. The girl
said Divine gave her beer and vodka. After she got drunk.
She said Divine began kissing her and then sexually assaulted her.
She told detectives he allegedly raped her twice that day
in the garage. The final encounter allegedly happened weeks after

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at Divine's home while his wife was out of town.
The girl said Divine again gave her alcohol and cigarettes
before they had sex in his bed. Divine later admitted
to detectives that he had sex with the girl at
least three times. He admitted he supplied her with marijuana, beer,
and alcohol. He claimed the sex was consensual and initiated
by the girl. Court documents state quote Divine stated the

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victim wanted to continue their sexual relationship, but he didn't
want to. The girl told detectives that After the encounters,
Divine later texted her that he was quote unquote sorry
for the hurt he had caused, and said he claimed
he was going to harm himself. She also said Divine
later called her a whore. The case came to police
after the girl's mother found deleted screenshots of an online

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chat between her daughter and the rape, Abuse and Incest
national network RAIN. The mother then went to police. She
alleged that he tried to hack into her daughter's phone
to delete evidence, though there is no official word of
how the suspect and the girl are possibly related. On
the day of Divine's arrest, a post appeared on his
Instagram account with the text in all caps, quote my

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name's Kyle and I have been raping my sixteen year
old stepdaughter. The caption read quote this is Kyle's wife,
not a joke. He is going to jail. Divine's Instagram
account has more than one hundred sixteen thousand followers. His
YouTube channel has more than one hundred thousand subscribers in
over sixty two million views. One of his final posts
before his arrest previewed what he called a new home

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gym space that appears to match the warehouse where two
of the alleged sexual encounters occurred. Divine appeared in Marion's
Superior Court earlier this week. Several no contact orders were issued.
He remains in custody as the case moves forward. For
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I'm Drew Nelson.