Pastor, "Gospel Train" radio personality Rev. Curtis White III charged with dealing cocaine

[Ian David]

Pastor, radio personality charged with dealing cocaine


By Anne Gregory
The Journal Gazette
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A man identified as a Fort Wayne pastor and radio personality has been arrested on three charges of dealing cocaine.

Fort Wayne police said the department had received several complaints about the Rev. Curtis White III selling cocaine, and the Vice and Narcotics Section investigated him for a month before making an arrest Friday.

According to a written statement, police served a warrant at White’s hotel room in the 4900 block of Bluffton Road and found 6.6 grams of crack cocaine in the room and 6.5 grams of crack cocaine "secreted in a body cavity of Mr. White."

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White has been Sunday morning host of the Gospel Train Unity Inspirational Hour on 102.9 The River, the station confirmed Monday. It said he paid for the time, and the payment was listed in connection with Divine Faith Baptist Church, 1433 McCulloch St.


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The only thing worse than what Limbaugh pulls out of his ass, may be what THIS guy had pulled out of his ass.

[damntexdem]

1. Better search that train.

Does it run up from Colombia? ;-)

[Silent3]

2. "crack cocaine 'secreted in a body cavity of Mr. White.'"

Ah, hah! So that's why they call it "crack" cocaine! :)

[Berry Cool]

3. Driving that "Gospel Train," high on cocaine...

:hide:

[struggle4progress]

4. A coke-dealin DJ, who calls himself "Pastor." How excitin!

[trotsky]

8. Because everyone knows, "real Christians" don't sin! n/t

[struggle4progress]

9. I have no idea who preached that false gospel to you -- or why you insist on spreading it as if

it were the standard teaching. Paul's lament in Romans, For I do not do the good things I want to do but instead do the evil things I hate, is well-known. The conflict between people's good intentions -- and the strength of their desires, the force of their habits, and their limited understanding -- is universally human. All one can do is to try to become less of a hypocrite today than one was yesterday, while hoping for similar progress tomorrow: the effort requires honesty with oneself, and such honesty is not possible if one is busily occupied sneering at the failures of others

Still, there is no law in the US restricting who may call himself or herself a "pastor" or a "reverend," and I am not obligated to take such self-stylings seriously

[charlie]

5. The reverend is officially retired

He'll be a jailbird for the rest of his life:

White is the pastor at "Divine Faith Baptist Church" at Hayden and McCulloch streets, and he's no stranger to charges like this.

In June of 1997, White was sentenced to one year and 5-months in prison for dealing cocaine.

In August of '99, he was sentenced to 12-years for, again, dealing cocaine.

He was released in '04.

If White is convicted in "this" case, prosecutors could charge him with being a "habitual offender."

If the judge agrees, the charge could add 30-years to any sentence.

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/31491191/ns/local_news-ft_wayne_in

[struggle4progress]

6. "Divine Faith Baptist Church" seems to be a boarded-up cinderblock meeting house in

a decaying residential neighborhood where a number of the houses are boarded up; the "hotel" where the reverend was arrested seems to be a motel near a truck stop and a self-storage facility

[onager]

7. Twice as sweet as sugar, twice as bitter as salt...

And if you get hooked, baby,
It's nobody's else's fault...