ALABAMA
Mobile Register
Saturday, June 25, 2005
Staff Report
A judge on Friday ordered former Catholic priest Thomas Anthony Crandall held without bail while awaiting extradition to Florida.
Crandall, 50, was arrested earlier this week in Mobile after being sought by Gulf County, Fla., authorities on charges of transmitting images harmful to a minor.
The former priest previously pleaded guilty to federal drug charges in Florida in 2002 and was released from prison last October. In this recent case he allegedly e-mailed sexually explicit images to someone he believed to be 15. The "youngster" was really an undercover investigator.