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| Food Service Worker Accused of Smuggling Contraband into Florida Jail |
| By Naples Daily News |
| Published: 05/19/2003 |
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The sherbet, cookies and second helpings weren't on the inmates' menu. And the Salem cigarettes and bottle of rum that Collier County, Fla., sheriff's deputies say the jail's kitchen manager sneaked in weren't on the legal list for the residents behind bars. But it was the tobacco and the alcohol that got her into trouble - and booked into the jail she'd worked in for nearly a decade, authorities say. Linda Susan Corica, 52, of 100 Siena Way, North Naples, was charged last week with smuggling contraband into a county detention facility. Corica worked for Aramark, which provides food service under contract for the Sheriff's Office. Deputies say they talked to several inmates who told them that 'Kitchen Manager Sue' had passed them cigarettes and had given one inmate a small bottle of rum in January. She'd brought Salem or Misty Light menthol cigarettes for several inmates, trusties who had been working in the kitchen. Deputies say they don't think she was being paid for the cigarettes or the rum. 'She was trying to befriend them, build personal relationships with them,' said sheriff's spokeswoman Tina Osceola. 'She even stayed in touch when they got out.' The cigarettes are contraband because the jail is a nonsmoking lockup and alcohol is banned from the premises. Cigarettes, although not allowed behind bars, are often used as currency among inmates. Corica also did a little pantry-dipping for the inmates. Osceola said she was allowing some of the inmates to have more than their legal limit of food - both inmate-approved food and some extras from the receptions Aramark would cater for the Sheriff's Office. Corica was in charge of the kitchen inventory and planning menus, which would include items such as sherbet and wafer cookies, usual fare for agency receptions, she said. That food was to go into storage and be used at official gatherings. |
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