Ex-Federal Corrections nurse pleads responsible to smuggling medication into Miami jail
NBC Miami- A former nurse with the Federal Bureau of Prisons on the Federal Detention Middle in downtown Miami pled responsible to supplying inmates with prohibited objects, together with medication.
Ruben Montanez-Mirabal, 33, entered the plea on Thursday to prices together with conspiring to commit bribery, conspiring to supply contraband in a federal jail, and offering contraband in a federal jail, the U.S. Lawyer for the Southern District of Florida mentioned.
District Choose Jose E. Martinez will sentence Montanez-Mirabal on Might 16. He faces as much as 15 years in jail.
Based on courtroom paperwork, Montanez-Mirabal solicited and obtained unlawful funds from inmates in change for bringing in and delivering to them prohibited objects, together with managed substances that had been soaked into sheets of paper. Montanez-Mirabal accepted hundreds of {dollars} in bribes from these inmates and their associates.
Montanez-Mirabal additionally solicited and acquired different issues of worth from inmates, together with the free use of a Lamborghini and a Rolls-Royce.
Montanez-Mirabal would deliver these prohibited objects into FDC-Miami after which both ship them on to the inmates or cover them in locations the place the inmate paying him would be capable to get better the contraband, in response to paperwork.
He later admitted to creating quite a lot of these deliveries for inmates, together with one supply the place he was noticed “hiding 37 drug-soaked pages beneath a shelving unit in a mop closet accessible to the inmate paying him.”