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A priest charged last week in a “stupid” scheme to sell stolen Broadway show tickets back to their original owner was arrested in 1982 in an art smuggling case, New York police said Friday. Lawrence Zorza, 46, identified by police as a Roman Catholic priest, was arrested Wednesday on allegations that he tried to sell the stolen tickets for the show “Les Miserables” back to their original owner, the Manhattan Theater Tickets Service, said police inspector Ronald Fenrich. Authorities recovered 736 tickets, among a batch taken in a February robbery. Fenrich said Zorza was arrested in March, 1982, on charges of smuggling a stolen Italian Renaissance painting into the United States, and was later sentenced to three years probation in a plea-bargain agreement.