A pastor in Forth Worth, Texas has been arrested for drug possession. This is the second arrest in a month for 48-year old Clyde Downs, who has been a senior pastor of New Harvest Missionary Baptist Church in southeast Fort Worth since 2006.
Downs was stopped at 4:40 am when police say that he failed to turn on his right signal when leaving a convenience store. Police then claim that they saw drug paraphernalia on the front seat. They searched his car further and found a drug on him, according to Officer Sharron Neal, a police spokeswoman.
The item found in the car was a pipe, but Neal says that she cannot yet describe the drug because it is being tested. Downs has been booked in a Mansfield jail and released on $1,000 bail. He has been charged with possessing less than one gram of a controlled substance.
On May 16th, Downs was allegedly caught with marijuana and a gun, according to police. He is a felon, which makes it illegal for him to possess a firearm.
Downs went to prison in 1992 expected to serve 20 years or stealing a car and theft of property of over $750. He was paroled in 1997 and his sentences ended in August 2012.
According to the church’s website, Downs is the president of a trucking company and a graduate of Trinity Valley Baptist Seminary in Kennedale where he earned a doctorate in theology.
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