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Orange County Weekly
[UPDATED with Cross Dressing, Sex Shop:] Chad McCluskey and Kristen Laschober, Typical OC Couple, Tied with Priest to Meth Ring: Feds
By Matt Coker
Fri., Jan. 18 2013
See the update at the end of this post about new revelations about the Orange County couple and apparently kinky Connecticut priest.
ORIGINAL POST, JAN. 18, 8:08 A.M.: It’s not difficult to find San Clemente’s Chad McCluskey online. His Facebook, Twitter and online photo sharing pages–open to all, just Google him–show a 43-year-old who loves family, his girlfriend and snapping pictures on vacation, at pop concerts and of his remodeling projects. He just seems to be the average Orange County dude, one you’d never expect to be held in federal lockup in Connecticut on charges of being part of a meth-sales ring that includes his lover and a Roman Catholic monsignor.
The good news here is we finally have a story here involving a priest and a refreshingly different kind of pipe smoking. The bad news for Father Kevin Wallin, who formerly served at St. Augustine’s Cathedral parish in Bridgeport, Conn., as well as McCluskey, his girlfriend Kristen Laschober, 47, of Laguna Niguel, and two other Connecticut men is they are all charged under a federal indictment with conspiracy to distribute methamphetamine.
Kristen Laschober and Chad McCluskey on vacation in Playa Del Carmen, Mexico.
The U.S. Attorney’s office says sentencing guidelines for the federal conspiracy counts range from 10 years to life in prison and fines up to $10 million.
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