'Priest' with 7.7 lbs of coke arrested

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A man claiming to be a Catholic priest was arrested at an Amsterdam airport where he refused to be body searched. He was caught with 7.7 lbs of cocaine under his robes. "We've seen a lot of things, baseballs filled with cocaine, wine bottles, plaster casts, but this is a first," Van Kapel said. He said the man, who was traveling from Bolivia, continued to insist he is a priest and did not confess any wrongdoing, arguing his rights had been violated by the search. He must have thought that by claiming to be a priest, people would just take his words for it and would not subject him to the normal security check. What was he thinking? Read more: http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20080112/ap_on_fe_st/odd_holy_coke;_ylt=Agn5273.Q0Q8whWbx93Bv4ftiBIF