{"id":13689,"date":"2013-01-17T12:52:26","date_gmt":"2013-01-17T17:52:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.splendoroftruth.com\/curtjester\/?p=13689"},"modified":"2013-01-17T12:52:26","modified_gmt":"2013-01-17T17:52:26","slug":"connecticut-priest-charged-in-meth-ring","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.splendoroftruth.com\/curtjester\/2013\/01\/connecticut-priest-charged-in-meth-ring\/","title":{"rendered":"Connecticut priest charged in meth ring"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p>A Connecticut priest was part of a cross-country drug ring that smuggled crystal meth from California into the well-heeled hamlets of Fairfield County, federal prosecutors said.<\/p>\n<p>Monsignor Kevin Wallin, a former pastor of St. Augustine Parish in Bridgeport, sold meth to undercover narcs six times since September 2012, the U.S. Attorney\u2019s Office said Wednesday.<br \/>\nThe 61-year-old former church leader and four others were indicted by a grand jury on six counts of possession with intent to distribute. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/deaconsbench\/2013\/01\/connecticut-priest-charged-in-meth-ring\/\">(Via The Deacon\u2019s Bench)<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Not the direction I envisioned things in my <a href=\"http:\/\/www.splendoroftruth.com\/curtjester\/2012\/11\/must-see-tv\/\">Breaking Bad parody<\/a>.<\/p>\n<figure><img decoding=\"async\" id=\"breaking\" alt=\"\" src=\"http:\/\/www.splendoroftruth.com\/curtjester\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/11\/breaking_bad_parody.jpg\" \/><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A Connecticut priest was part of a cross-country drug ring that smuggled crystal meth from California into the well-heeled hamlets of Fairfield County, federal prosecutors said. Monsignor Kevin Wallin, a&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[16],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-13689","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.splendoroftruth.com\/curtjester\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13689","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.splendoroftruth.com\/curtjester\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.splendoroftruth.com\/curtjester\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.splendoroftruth.com\/curtjester\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.splendoroftruth.com\/curtjester\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=13689"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.splendoroftruth.com\/curtjester\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13689\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":13690,"href":"https:\/\/www.splendoroftruth.com\/curtjester\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13689\/revisions\/13690"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.splendoroftruth.com\/curtjester\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13689"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.splendoroftruth.com\/curtjester\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13689"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.splendoroftruth.com\/curtjester\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13689"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}