A former prison nurse has been sentenced to six years after pleading guilty to smuggling more than 100 drug-soaked papers into a Miami detention center for federal inmates, who in turn paid him thousands of dollars and let him use a Lamborghini and Rolls-Royce for free.
The inmates resold the synthetic cannabis-laced papers for $1,500 each from inside the Federal Detention Center in Miami, U.S. prosecutors said. The facility mostly holds defendants awaiting trial and others who have been convicted and sentenced to prison.
The former prison nurse, Ruben Montanez-Mirabal, 33, was sentenced Wednesday by U.S. District Judge Jose Martinez in Miami federal court after admitting in a plea agreement that he conspired to solicit bribes and deliver contraband to inmates at the detention facility.
