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| Inmate Caught with Drugs |
| By Newsday |
| Published: 02/06/2006 |
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Hours after a New York man was sentenced to two years in prison for a drug charge, it was discovered that he carried 30 bags of heroin and marijuana into the jail, Suffolk sheriff's officials said last week. Bruce Maldonado, 33, was taken to the Suffolk jail in Riverhead, where he was to remain before being transported to a prison upstate, said Steven Wilutis, the Miller Place attorney who represented him when he pleaded guilty to attempted third-degree criminal sale of a controlled substance. About 10 p.m., correction officers struggled briefly with Maldonado in his cell after the sheriff's office received a tip from outside the jail that Maldonado had carried contraband into the jail in his rectum, Chief of Staff Alan Otto said. Maldonado was about to flush the drugs down the toilet when the officers recovered the bags, Otto said. Maldonado, who Otto said has a criminal record involving drugs dating to 1989, was charged with second-degree promoting prison contraband and third-degree criminal possession of a controlled substance. Wilutis said he hadn't yet heard of the new charges and doesn't know whether he'll be hired to represent him again. "This is horrible news for him," Wilutis said. "He's been drug-dependent for many years." It was not known how the drugs entered Maldonado's body, but if a bag had ruptured it could have killed him, Otto said. "He has a history of selling drugs," Otto said. "In jail, it's very valuable." Otto said the estimated street value of the drugs is less than $1,000. It was unclear whether Maldonado intended to use the drugs himself or sell them, Otto said. |
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