Drug supplier for Connecticut’s ‘Monsignor Meth’ gets 5 years

A woman who authorities say helped supply nearly 10 pounds of methamphetamine to a drug operation run by a Connecticut Catholic priest dubbed “Monsignor Meth” was sentenced this week to five years in prison. The Connecticut Post reported that 49-year-old Kristen Laschober of Laguna Niguel, Calif., was sentenced Wednesday in federal court in Hartford. She and her boyfriend, Chad McCluskey of San Clemente, Calif., pleaded guilty last year to drug conspiracy charges connected to their meth business with Monsignor Kevin Wallin, who has since been suspended. McCluskey was sentenced to more than five years in prison in June. Wallin was nicknamed “Monsignor Meth” in media reports. He pleaded guilty to a federal drug charge and awaits sentencing for selling large quantities of meth out of his apartment in Waterbury.