NBC 6- A well being companies employee in Miami-Dade County was arrested after an investigation led police to consider she was planning to smuggle contraband, together with marijuana, right into a detention heart.
Junell Bell, 39, was arrested Sunday morning and faces expenses together with possession of a managed substance, introducing contraband right into a correction facility and conspiracy to introduce contraband.
Miami-Dade Corrections stated data offered to them by Miami-Dade Police led them to consider an worker with Correctional Well being Providers, who offers medical care to inmates, was making an attempt to convey medication into the power.
An operation was performed late Saturday evening on the Metro-West Detention Middle, the place Bell was taken into custody with a “substantial quantity” of medicine together with marijuana and oxycodone.
“The power for us to police ourselves and maintain each other accountable is paramount in assuring the protection of our workers, our neighborhood, and the inmate inhabitants,” stated Miami-Dade Corrections Director James Reyes. “We’ll proceed to exhaust the entire vital assets and leverage our partnerships with different Miami-Dade County public security stakeholders as a way to guarantee we’re working protected and safe jails.”
Bell stays behind bars pending a Monday listening to. Officers didn’t launch data on her job standing.