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Hudson Ex-Con Gets 3½ Years In Fed Pen For Contraband Drone Drops Into Fort Dix Prison Hudson Ex-Con Gets 3½ Years In Fed Pen For Contraband Drone Drops Into Fort Dix Prison
Hudson Ex-Con Gets 3½ Years In Fed Pen For Contraband Drone Drops Into Fort Dix Prison An ex-con from Hudson County is headed back to the big house for using drones to smuggle tobacco, phone chargers and other contraband into the federal prison at Fort Dix following his release. Jason “Juice” Arteaga-Loayza, 30, of Jersey City must serve out just about all of a plea-bargained 3½ years because there’s no parole in the federal prison system. Arteaga-Loayza and three other men had the smuggling operation going for several months before officers at Fort Dix spotted a drone with a dangling fishing line hovering above a housing unit, authorities said. The officers also found a cel…

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by Jerry DeMarco
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Feds: Fort Dix Officer Smuggled Synth Pot, Suboxone To Inmates For Cash Feds: Fort Dix Officer Smuggled Synth Pot, Suboxone To Inmates For Cash
Feds: Fort Dix Officer Smuggled Synth Pot, Suboxone To Inmates For Cash A Fort Dix corrections officer with an apparent penchant for gambling delivered synth pot and suboxone to inmates in exchange for cash before being arrested by federal agents Thursday, authorities said. A U.S. District Court judge in Newark released Paul Anton Wright, 32, of Berlin, on a $100,000 unsecured bond Thursday afternoon after a brief hearing. Between February and September 2015, Wright “received thousands of dollars in cash payments from the relative of an FCI Fort Dix inmate and subsequently delivered contraband, including K2 [synthetic marijuana], to the inmate,” U.S. Attorney C…

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by Jerry DeMarco