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| Four COs Face Drug Charges |
| By Associated Press |
| Published: 01/19/2006 |
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Four Pennsylvania Allegheny County Jail officers were charged with smuggling drugs and prescription pain pills into a Pennsylvania lockup, the district attorney said. Prosecutors accuse the officers and several other defendants of being involved in a conspiracy to bring drugs, including marijuana, heroin and ecstasy, and the painkiller OxyContin into the jail. Ronald L. Alford, Thomas J. Long, Daniel Kovacs and Lamar Rivers were all arraigned this week, each on one count of contraband and two counts of criminal conspiracy. Rivers also was charged with intimidating a witness and obstructing the administration of law. County policy calls for all four officers to be immediately suspended without pay, said Kevin Evanto, spokesman for county Executive Dan Onorato. In addition to the four officers, former officer David Bey of Pittsburgh and former jail nurse Katie Farmer of Coraopolis also were arraigned on contraband and conspiracy charges. Raymond Zwibel, an inmate at a federal prison in Lewisburg, also was charged with perjury and conspiracy but has not been arraigned yet, said Mike Manko, spokesman for the district attorney. Prosecutors expect to charge one more former jail officer, Manko said. |
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