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| Hennepin County correctional officer indicted on drug charges |
| By startribune.com - Paul Mcenroe |
| Published: 10/13/2014 |
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A Hennepin County corrections officer and 10 other people have been indicted by a federal grand jury, accused of dealing more than 26 pounds of methamphetamine over the last two years in the Twin Cities and Owatonna, Minn., area. The 26-year old corrections officer, Ashley Mariakas has worked in the county’s Plymouth workhouse since January. Law enforcement authorities said she was monitored on tape recordings talking to her boyfriend — a prisoner at the Lino Lakes Correctional Facility — about the drug operation. That prisoner, Joshua Ortega, 33, has a previous record of attempting to import cocaine, according to state records. This is the second time in recent months that a Hennepin corrections officer has been federally indicted. In an unrelated case in May, a female officer, Jacquelyn Burnes was among five people charged in a straw-purchase gun conspiracy case. Burnes and a Minneapolis South High School cook were charged with buying guns for gang members involved in several shootings across Minneapolis. Like Mariakas, Burnes was romantically involved with a prisoner. Read More. |
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