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Demaryius Thomas says grandmother's sentence commuted
Broncos Thomas Grandm Heal WEB
Denver Broncos wide receiver Demaryius Thomas, right, jokes with wide receiver Bennie Fowler during drills at the team's NFL football training camp in Englewood, Colo.
ENGLEWOOD, Colo. (AP) — Demaryius Thomas used the Denver Broncos' celebratory White House visit in June to deliver a handwritten note to President Barack Obama thanking him for commuting Thomas' mother's drug sentence last year and then asked him to do the same for his grandmother. The Broncos wide receiver is ready to pen another thank you note after he was told the president fulfilled his wish. Minnie Pearl Thomas was among 214 federal inmates whose sentences were cut short Wednesday by Obama.