Monsignor Kevin Wallin has been sentenced to five-and-a-half years in prison for running a methamphetamine distribution ring.
"I have never from the day I was arrested denied my guilt," Wallin, 63, said at the sentencing hearing in US District Court in Hartford, according to the Sun Herald.
"The day I was arrested was a very good day. It took me out of that situation."
Wallin laundered his drug money through Land of Oz & Dorothy's Place, a sex and adult toy store he bought.
He also apparently engaged in 'unpriestly behaviour' with 'odd looking men' while wearing women's clothes.
US District Judge Alfred V. Covello said, on sentencing the priest, "For you, sir, this is an unhappy day."
The judge expressed surprise at the volume of letters that came in support of the meth-dealing priest, saying "It's a little like attending your own funeral, your own wake."
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