A registered nurse in Florida who worked for the Federal Bureau of Prisons (“BOP”) at the Federal Detention Center – Miami (“FDC-Miami”) has been sentenced to 72 months in prison.
This comes after pleading guilty to conspiring to receive bribes and introduce ‘prohibited’ objects, including controlled substances, into a federal prison and to introducing prohibited objects into federal prison, arising from his illegal contraband deliveries to inmates at FDC-Miami.
According to court documents, from November 2021 through late August 2022, Ruben Montanez-Mirabal, 33, solicited and obtained illegal payments from FDC-Miami inmates in exchange for violating his official duties and FDC-Miami rules by bringing in and delivering to them prohibited objects, including sheets of paper that were soaked with synthetic cannabinoids.
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In exchange for this, Montanez-Mirabal accepted thousands of dollars in bribes from these inmates and their associates.
Along with these payments, Montanez-Mirabal also solicited and received other things of value from inmates, including the free use of a Lamborghini and a Rolls-Royce.
According to investigators, Montanez-Mirabal would bring these drug-soaked pages and other prohibited items into FDC-Miami and then either deliver them directly to the inmates or hide them in places where the inmate paying him would be able to recover the contraband.
Those inmates would then re-sell the pages to other inmates at a rate of $1,500 per page. Montanez-Mirabal made a number of these deliveries, providing over 100 drug-soaked pages, worth more than $150,000 in total, to inmates inside FDC-Miami in exchange for the bribes he received.
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