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Correctional Officer From Union Gets 4 Years For Smuggling Fentanyl Into Prison For Cash Correctional Officer From Union Gets 4 Years For Smuggling Fentanyl Into Prison For Cash
Correctional Officer From Union Gets 4 Years For Smuggling Fentanyl Into Prison For Cash A former senior correctional police officer at Northern State Prison in Newark was sentenced to four years behind bars Friday for smuggling fentanyl and marijuana to an inmate. Roberto Reyes-Jackson, 31, Irvington, smuggled “multiple single-dose wax folds of a powder compound laced with fentanyl to inmate Aaron Copeland” between September and December 2016, state Attorney General Gurbir S. Grewal said. He also smuggled a small amount of marijuana to Copeland, Grewal said. In exchange, Reyes-Jackson was paid hundreds of dollars by Copeland’s girlfriend, Tyeesha Powell, the attorney general …

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by Jerry DeMarco