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| Former prison officer gets probation in cell phone smuggling case |
| By reviewjournal.com- David Ferrara |
| Published: 01/29/2015 |
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A former Nevada Department of Corrections officer was sentenced to five years probation Wednesday in a scheme to get smartphones into High Desert State Prison. Derland Blake, 30, pleaded guilty in September to helping smuggle phones, compact disks, chicken and alcohol into the prison. The contraband ultimately ended up with Ammar Harris, a self-proclaimed pimp who is facing trial in a Strip shooting that killed three people, and another inmate. Authorities said Harris sent $2,000 to “an associate,” Amy Colon, who wired the money to Charmain Simmons, the mother of fellow inmate Derrick McKnight. Simmons slipped the cash to Reann Gadson, who bought two Verizon Wireless phones and handed them off to Olga Gonzalez, state prosecutors said. Gadson and Gonzalez then met with Blake, alleged to have smuggled the phones and other items to the inmates on May 9, investigators with the Nevada attorney general’s office said. Read More. |
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