FOX 11 Investigates: Self-proclaimed priest arrested again for violating probation, authorities say Local News FOX 11 Investigates: Self-proclaimed priest arrested again for violating probation, authorities say Erwin Arnoldo Menacastro was back in handcuffs this week by the Los Angeles Police Department for violating his probation. Only FOX 11 Investigates was there as he was taken back to jail. 
 
 - Erwin Arnoldo Menacastro was back in handcuffs this week by the Los Angeles Police Department for violating his probation. Only FOX 11 Investigates was there as he was taken back to jail. 
 
 This is a man we first exposed a year ago. 
 
 Menacastro, better known as "Father Mena," had been infiltrating Catholic churches since the 1990's and passing himself off as a Roman Catholic priest. 
 
 He held mass, prayer meetings, counseling sessions and nights of confession. One of his ploys involved selling tickets for a pilgrimage to New York and Philadelphia to visit with Pope Francis during his last U.S. tour. 
 
 Detectives said the Pope-tour scam netted Mena more than $15,000. 
 
 Watch Gina Silva's full report in the video above. 
 
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 Copyright 2016 FOX 11 Los Angeles: Download our mobile app for breaking news alerts or to watch FOX 11 News | Follow us on Facebook, Twitter, Instagram, and YouTube. Be a citizen journalist for FOX 11 and get paid – download the Fresco News App today. ||||| Mena, 60, had been convicted in February of grand theft in connection with his scheme to sell fake trips to see the pontiff and he got out of jail in July. LAPD Det. Gary Guevara said he arrested Mena on Nov. 2 after confirming he posed as a priest at a church in the Arts District.
– Good thing Catholics have a fairly relaxed forgiveness policy. The Los Angeles Times reports a 60-year-old man convicted last February after posing as a priest was arrested earlier this month for slipping back into the vestments. When Erwin Mena was originally arrested, he had been acting as a priest at a Los Angeles church for five months or so. Authorities say he delivered sermons, baptized babies, held funerals, gave confession, and presided over Mass. However what eventually got Mena a year in jail for grand theft was selling fake trips to see the pope during his East Coast visit last fall. According to Fox 11, Mena made more than $15,000 selling nonexistent trips to parishioners for $500 to $1,000 a pop. Mena was released from jail early last July. He was arrested at a different Los Angeles church Nov. 2 while going by the name Father Edwin Lima. On Friday, a judge sentenced Mena to another 265 days in jail, telling him, "You can't go into a church and pretend you're a priest." The judge also barred Mena from coming within 100 feet of any Catholic church in the city. Mena has allegedly been doing his faux priest routine since the 1990s.