MOBILE (AL)
WFTV
POSTED: 6:58 am EDT June 24, 2005
MOBILE, Ala. -- A former Roman Catholic priest on federal probation for dealing drugs from his Florida Panhandle rectory and his Bourbon Street condominium in New Orleans has been arrested here on Internet child pornography charges, the FBI said Thursday.
Thomas Anthony Crandall, 50, was arrested at his apartment Wednesday on a state warrant from Florida's Gulf County, where he once served as a pastor, FBI spokesman Craig Dahle said.
Agents searched his apartment for materials depicting child pornography and seized an undetermined number of items.
Crandall was taken to Mobile County Jail, where he awaited extradition. He had been pastor of a Milton, Fla., parish for three years when he was arrested Jan. 12, 2002 on the drug charges. He was pulled over en route from New Orleans to Milton.
The native of Jersey City, N.J., was sentenced to four years and three months in federal prison after pleading guilty to conspiring to distribute methamphetamine and Ecstacy.
Posted by kshaw at June 24, 2005 08:14 AM