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Local Pastor Deported For Past Drug Convictions

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First posted: 11/2/2006 5:21:11 PM

A popular local pastor is being deported back to his native England based on two marijuana convictions he had there more than three decades ago.

9News was first to tell you about the controversy surrounding pastor Keith Thomas back in November of 2005.

Thomas works at the Vineyard Community Church in Springdale.

US Immigration officials have just notified him that his request to stay in the country to work at the Vineyard have been denied, and as a result he is being asked to leave the country.

Thomas has a wife and two children who are all American citizens.