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December 17, 2009

NEW – Newry priest has DUI at 4 times legal limit

ALTOONA — A Catholic priest from central Pennsylvania faces a preliminary hearing on charges he drove while his blood-alcohol content was more than four time the state’s legal limit.

Monsignor Anthony Little tells The Altoona Mirror that his Thanksgiving traffic stop was “a stupid thing” and “poor judgment” that followed a family gathering.

Altoona police cited the priest for driving with a blood-alcohol content of 0.34 percent. The legal limit is 0.08 percent. His hearing in Jan. 13.

A spokesman for the Roman Catholic Diocese of Altoona-Johnstown declined comment, saying it was a personnel matter.

Little says he hasn’t been suspended from pastoring St. Patrick Catholic Church in Newry, about 85 miles east of Pittsburgh.



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