Suspended Priest to Plead Guilty to Drug Charge

The Wtnh
April 1, 2013

http://www.wtnh.com/dpp/news/crime/suspended-priest-to-plead-guilty-to-drug-charge_57161152

Monsignor Kevin Wallin of the Diocese of Bridgeport, 2010.

HARTFORD, Conn. (AP) — A court filing shows a suspended Roman Catholic priest in Connecticut accused of making more than $300,000 in sales of methamphetamines plans to plead guilty to one of the charges.

Kevin Wallin is scheduled to appear Tuesday 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.

Messages left with his attorney were not returned.

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.