Monsignor Meth: CT Priest Made A Fortune Selling Drugs, Will Plead Guilty

In this May 4, 2006 photo, Monsignor Kevin Wallin speaks at the Catholic Center, headquarters of the Diocese of Bridgeport, in Bridgeport, Conn. Wallin, of Waterbury, Conn., awaits a March 2013 trial on federal charg... In this May 4, 2006 photo, Monsignor Kevin Wallin speaks at the Catholic Center, headquarters of the Diocese of Bridgeport, in Bridgeport, Conn. Wallin, of Waterbury, Conn., awaits a March 2013 trial on federal charges of shipping methamphetamine from California to his apartment and making more than $300,000 in drug sales in the second half of 2012. He was one of five people arrested and indicted by a grand jury in January 2013. MORE LESS
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HARTFORD, Conn. (AP) — A suspended Roman Catholic priest in Connecticut accused of making more than $300,000 in sales of methamphetamines is expected to plead guilty to one of the charges.

Kevin Wallin is scheduled to appear Tuesday morning in U.S. District Court in Hartford for a hearing in which he would plead guilty to conspiracy to possess with intent to distribute methamphetamine.

Authorities say the 61-year-old Wallin had methamphetamine mailed to him from co-conspirators in California and made more than $300,000 in drugs sales out of his apartment in Waterbury last year.

Wallin is the former pastor of St. Augustine Parish in Bridgeport.

Copyright 2013 The Associated Press.

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