8 Charged in Plot to Traffic Drugs Into LI Jail Through Mail, Visitations

Eight folks had been charged for plotting to visitors medicine into the Suffolk County Correctional Facility in Riverhead by means of the mail and jail visitations, officers stated.

Suffolk County investigators found over the course of three months that 5 jail guests and three inmates allegedly conspired to smuggle medicine — together with heroin, buprenorphine, hashish, K2 and extra — into the Lengthy Island facility by stitching the contraband into clothes or hiding it in packing supplies after which both sending them through the U.S. Postal Service or having them introduced in by jail guests, police stated.

Police discovered the hidden medicine whereas conducting surveillance and cellphone monitoring as a part of their investigation.

“By way of surveillance, searches, and detailed investigatory work, these investigators had been capable of uncover a fancy plan to visitors harmful medicine into the ability,” Suffolk County Sheriff Errol Toulon stated in a press release Tuesday. 

The district legal professional charged the eight suspects with 25 felonies and 12 misdemeanors, together with conspiracy, legal possession of a managed substance, legal sale of a managed substance, selling jail contraband and legal facilitation.

“The defendants allegedly conspired to introduce harmful medicine into the SCCF. Due to the wonderful work of the Sheriff’s Workplace Legal Investigations Bureau, working with prosecutors from my workplace, this scheme was thwarted,” Suffolk County District Legal professional Raymond Tierney stated.