Monday, May 7, 2007, 1:29 pm
By ASSOCIATED PRESS
Police charged the Rev. David Brian Anton, 70, of Tampa, with possession of crack Sunday.
By ASSOCIATED PRESS
Police charged the Rev. David Brian Anton, 70, of Tampa, with possession of crack Sunday.
(ASSOCIATED PRESS)
Tampa minister found with crack in church parking lot, authorities say
TAMPA -- A 70-year-old minister was arrested after police found him at his church with 16 rocks of crack cocaine and a pipe to smoke them, authorities said.Acting on a tip that a minister at Living Word Fellowship was using cocaine, an officer approached the Rev. David Brian Anton in the church parking lot Sunday morning and struck up a conversation about drug dealing in the area, police spokeswoman Lisa Parashis said.During the course of the conversation, Anton made a point of saying he didn't use drugs and consented to a search. The officer pulled a plastic bag containing the crack out of Anton's front shirt pocket, Parashis said. A crack pipe was found in his pants pocket."He advised that it wasn't his but he did purchase it, and he was not willing to give up a supplier's name," Parashis said.Anton was charged with possession of cocaine, possession of a controlled substance within 1,000 feet of a church and possession of drug paraphernalia.He was being held Monday on $17,500 bail, according to jail records, which said he did not yet have an attorney. The church did not respond to a voicemail message left there Monday.
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