Second Jail Gaurd Admits Smuggling Fake Heroin

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The second of three guards at the St. Louis Justice Center accused of trying to smuggle heroin to inmates pleaded guilty Friday to two federal drug charges.

Peggy Lynn “Pumpkin” O’Neal, 48, admitted accepting $200 on two occasions, Jan. 29 and March 3, to smuggle heroin to an inmate.

An inmate who was working with police and the Drug Enforcement Administration had approached O’Neal and asked her if she would smuggle heroin in to the jail, Assistant U.S. Attorney Hal Goldsmith said in court.

O’Neal contacted the inmate’s “friend,” who was actually a DEA agent.

O’Neal, James L. Moore, 36, and Marilyn Denise “Peaches” Brown, 54, were all arrested in April. Brown and Moore face one count attempting to distribute heroin. Moore pleaded guilty Wednesday. O’Neal pleaded guilty Friday to two counts of the same charge, and now faces 30 to 37 months in federal prison under federal sentencing guidelines when sentenced in October.

O’Neal’s lawyer, John Lynch, declined to comment after the hearing.
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Does anyone else find the sequence of events disturbing?

At least one (possibly more) inmates were approached by the DEA to bribe gaurds at their prisons to smuggle them Heroin. Those gaurds that agreed were given contact information by the inmate(s) to buy the Heroin, who were themselves undercover police/DEA agents, and then were arrested.

A crime was not committed without the direction, instruction and coercion of the police/Federal agents.

Could it be that the news outlet mixed up their facts?
 
This is pretty fucked the way that the article plays out the events.

I am not really sure how I feel about guards smuggling drugs, on the one hand its the only way people locked up can get high. There are some people in jail that need the freedom to get high taken away from them as their other freedoms have been but there are cetainly a lot of people serving time who should be able to get high like the rest of us.

Prison guards are not actively locking up drug users and so its hard to hold them to the same anti drug standards one would do with the police. I can't say I am overly sympathetic to them but at the same time the way this played out is pretty fucked.

I wonder what the inmates got for getting these guards to smuggle drugs anyway?
 
It is certainly not the only way inmates can get high. But it is what it is, COs aren't police they're just any person with a GED and no criminal record who took like a hundred hour course or something.
I mean, Peaches and Pumpkin got the jobs, right?

The DEA could have better spent their time on a more serious matter , or even tried to bust someone they already knew was smuggling to inmates. Which is probably what happenned and the report is not totally accurate.

I too wonder what the inmates got, and I wonder how close it was to what they were promised. Fucking pigs , liars , every last one of em.
 
CO's here in California get paid a decent amount. Not sure if this is the same for these women, but I'm surprised they risked their jobs and freedom for $200. I guess with names like Peaches and Pumpkin, they probably aren't geniuses.
 
I can't picture myself as a CO. But if I was to agree to smuggle drugs. It would only be once a month, a large amount, and I would want over a thousand minimum to do it. Half up front bottom line. 200 bucks? How many shifts is that even? Fucking STUPID.

And for the inmates who orchestrated this.... what was their pay off? Sentence reduction? Extra honey buns and ramen? I wanna know!
 
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