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| Prison phone smugglers creative, dangerous |
| By myajc.com- Bill Rankin |
| Published: 09/25/2015 |
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They brokered drug deals, ran telephone scams and ordered a hit on a government witness — crimes that fetch long stints in prison. Except these criminals were already in prison. Two federal indictments unsealed Thursday alleged that state inmates were assisted by prison employees on the inside and recently released inmates and girlfriends on the outside. And their schemes had one common thread: cellphones smuggled inside prison walls. The creative inmates’ brazen use of their cellphones enabled them to post on social media, create a fictitious company online, even order shoes and have them delivered. One also pretended to be a credit card fraud investigator to get unsuspecting victims to turn over personal financial information, prosecutors said. “Prisons serve to punish and rehabilitate convicted offenders and deter crime — not enable it,” U.S. Attorney John Horn said at a press conference. “Prisons should be a place where we have confidence that inmates are not operating identity theft schemes and drug distribution rings.” Read More. |
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