Former pastor faces drug-dealing charge - JSOnline: "John West, 59, and nine others, including his son, were indicted with conspiracy to sell heroin from summer 2009 until March. A mother and her adult son are among those charged.
Court documents describe West as the leader of the group that often went to Chicago to buy heroin, developed an 'innovative way of cutting' the drug to maximize profits, hired armed enforcers to protect the operation and personally carried a gun.
West was ordained in 1969 and most recently was a pastor with his wife, Linda Hughes, at the Prayer House of Deliverance, according to his attorney and court documents.
Hughes said she and West split more than a year ago and since then she has been the only pastor at the church, near N. 9th and W. Center streets. Authorities went to the church looking for West, after they received a tip he was hiding there, Hughes said."
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