When you read the phrase “drugs in the workplace,” probably the last workplace that’d come to mind is a church.
This story blows away that assumption.
The Reverend Christopher Layden, a Catholic priest on the University of Illinois campus, has been charged with selling cocaine from his church office and rectory.
He’s pleaded not guilty to two counts of delivery of less than 1 gram of cocaine within 1,000 feet of a church and one count of possession with intent to deliver up to 15 grams of cocaine near a church.
Layden was arrested at St. John’s Catholic Newman Center after investigators found 3 grams of cocaine and drug paraphernalia at his home and office. His bond was set at $50,000.
The Catholic Diocese of Peoria has suspended Layden.
