A 45-year-old Italian priest was
caught buying cocaine for personal use in a pine wood on the
northern Tuscan coast, local media said Thursday.
The unnamed cleric was caught by police a few days ago in the
pine forest on the Aurelia state highway between Torre del Lago
near Lucca and Migliarino near Pisa.
Since the baggy only contained enough drugs for personal use,
the priest was only served with an administrative citation,
police said.
The purchase took place in the dead of night, police said.
They said they saw the cleric getting out of his car and going
into the wood before driving away, when they stopped him at a
service station.
Earlier this month a priest was put under house arrest for
allegedly dealing narcotics at sex parties in the Tuscan city of
Prato and may also face charges of attempted physical harm for
failing to tell the other participants that he was HIV positive,
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