AUGUSTA, Maine — An Episcopal priest charged with mailing prescription drugs to inmates at a Maine jail has made his first court appearance.
The Kennebec Journal reports that the Rev. Stephen Foote was not required to enter a plea in Lincoln County Superior Court on Thursday, but bail conditions were modified slightly.
The 70-year-old Foote, who lives in Bremen and was serving at St. Mark’s in Augusta, is charged with trafficking in prison contraband. He’s free on unsecured bail.
Prosecutors say he mailed suboxone to an inmate he knows at the Two Bridges Regional Jail in Wiscasset. Suboxone is used to treat opiate addiction but can be abused.
Two inmates are also facing charges.
Foote’s attorney did not comment.
The Episcopal Diocese of Maine has placed Foote on administrative leave.
That’s two this month from the holier than thou sect.
He’s 70 years old for goodness sake. He probably didn’t realize that sending pills to the jail wasn’t legal. He was trying to help some young guys with their withdrawal symptems. Yea right…….
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I think he was duped into trying to help a couple young fellows and didn’t realize the seriousness of what he was doing. I think it would be a waste of jail space to incarcerate this old guy.
It doesn’t sound like he was gaining anything by doing it.
I guess you folks have no clue as to the “street value” of these
drugs. Subox & Oxy are huge and even bigger in jail. I want to
know how this dirtbag pastor got his hands on the drugs. Then
throw the book at him for dealing and introduction of contraband.
But I would be willing to bet he faces more punishment than Pat Jordan
C’mon……take off the rose colored glasses & face reality.
This has to be a story the editor wrote from fantasy. Is this another joke on the readers? An elderly priest sending drugs to prisoners! C’mon. You’re starting to make me believe we have already gone over the cliff.
The story is true. We don’t know the motivation. I have a hunch it was the well intentioned but misguided efforts of an old man to help out..but we’ll see how it plays out.
Oh come on now, from an early time in seminary training a priest is taught to be charitable and giving, he is only practicing his trade.
I guess he didn’t know the mail gets opened and checked before it goes to the inmates. It sounds like he was duped and a bit clueless.