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| CO charged for selling tobacco |
| By Reuters |
| Published: 07/27/2006 |
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FORT DIX, NJ - Everybody knows if smoking doesn't kill you it will at least lighten your wallet. In one New Jersey prison, the price starts at $800 a pound. An officer at Fort Dix federal prison in New Jersey was charged on Wednesday with conspiracy to smuggle and sell two one-pound (450-gram) bags of tobacco to an inmate for $1,600, federal prosecutors in New Jersey said in a statement. The officer, Timberly Gamache, 35, also was implicated in a deal to sell the inmate another two bags of tobacco plus a cell phone for $2,800, the statement said. It turns out the inmate was cooperating with authorities. Another inmate, Hassan Thomas, 31, already serving time for a drug offense, was charged with arranging the contraband sales. Thomas had told the other inmate he could arrange the sales though prison officer Gamache in exchange for money transfers to Gamache's husband, the statement said. After federal agents wired the money, Thomas provided the goods. Gamache was arrested at her home on Wednesday. She faces a maximum penalty of five years in prison plus a $250,000 fine. |
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