CONNECTICUT
The Hartford Courant
By EDMUND H. MAHONY, emahony@courant.com
The Hartford Courant
6:58 p.m. EST, January 16, 2013
A federal grand jury has indicted five men – including a Bridgeport priest – as members of a drug distribution ring that sold methamphetamine in Connecticut, the U.S. Attorney’s office said Wednesday.
The priest, Msgr. Kevin Wallin, is accused of receiving shipments of the drug, known as crystal meth, from a California supplier and selling it to an undercover narcotics investigator six times since September.
Wallin’s, whose most recent address is in Waterbury, could not be reached. A spokesman for the Diocese of Bridgeport, said Wallin was “a gifted, compassionate and accomplished priest,” and said his colleagues reacted to his arrest with a sense of “shock and concern.”
Wallin had long been associated with St. Augustine Parish in Bridgeport, where he had been pastor for nine years until his resignation in June 2011. At the time of his resignation, he told parishioners that he was “struggling with a number of health and personal issues,” according to a statement distributed by the Diocese Wednesday.
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