Pubdate: Wed, 07 Mar 2001 Source: Boston Herald (MA) Copyright: 2001 The Boston Herald, Inc Contact: One Herald Square, Boston, MA 02106-2096 Website: http://www.bostonherald.com/ Author: Dave Wedge ANTI-DRUG SPEAKER BUSTED ON POT RAP A self-proclaimed Narcotics Anonymous success story and motivational speaker was busted by undercover cops after allegedly slipping out of a weekend speaking engagement in Falmouth to pick up a massive pot shipment, police say. "He left the conference for the specific purpose of going to pick up drugs," Bristol County Assistant District Attorney Gerald FitzGerald said of Stephen Phillips. Phillips, 46, of East Wareham, is a regular speaker at Narcotics Anonymous events and spoke at a conference at the Seacrest Hotel in Falmouth just hours before he was nabbed by undercover narcotics agents, police say. According to prosecutors, a Dartmouth parcel service called Phillips to tell him he had a large package he needed to pick up. The company, suspicious of the package, tipped off police, who searched it and found that it contained 53 pounds of marijuana. Phillips was arrested on drug trafficking charges about noon Saturday after picking up the parcel. Police later searched his house and recovered another 48 pounds of marijuana, FitzGerald said. Phillips, who is free on $10,000 cash bail, is a well-known NA speaker who says he's been clean for six years. His lecture Saturday was called, "Prisoner of Your Own Mind: The Power of Money, Property and Prestige." He was scheduled to speak at a New Jersey NA conference next month. NA Worldwide spokesman Steven Sigman called the incident "unfortunate" and said most local chapters choose their own speakers without national approval. "It's not the norm, that's for sure," Sigman said. "It sounds like this individual was not 100 percent in recovery." - ---