Benito Hugie, a former guard at Richard J. Donovan state prison in Otay Mesa, admitted last year that he accepted bribes as part of a criminal conspiracy
A federal judge on Thursday sentenced a former guard at an Otay Mesa state prison to two years in custody for taking part in a bribery and smuggling scheme, saying it was important to send a message to other corrections officers that such conduct will be punished despite the 'ridiculousness of the contraband involved.' That contraband? A bejeweled 'grill' for a prisoner's teeth and the dental molds needed to create it.
In their plea agreements, Brown and his brothers admitted that the entirety of the scheme — to acquire the bejeweled grill, to bribe Hugie and to smuggle the grill into the prison — exceeded $30,000. Hugie's attorney, Douglas Brown, said Thursday in court that the financial benefit to his client was 'not $35,000. It was much less than that.
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