The deputy of the sheriff of La County, 17 others who were charged for prison smuggling

A member of the Sheriff department of the district in Los Angeles was one of the 18 people who were charged with drug smuggling in the district prisons on Tuesday because of their alleged part.

The indictment, which results from a joint examination of LASD and FBI employees, which began in 2022 in relation to reports on drugs that were smuggled into the prison system of Los Angeles County and also announced the attack on an occupant , was announced by Nathan Hochman, prosecutor.

“Corruption and criminal activities are not tolerated in our judicial system – especially in our prisons,” said Hochman in a statement. “The ensuring that our correctional facilities remain safe and free of illegal drugs is of crucial importance for public security. Those who are entrusted with the maintenance of the law must be kept according to the highest standards, and we will be those who trust this trust reveal, pursue aggressively. “

The 18 defendants listed in the indictment include 39-year-old Lancaster man Michael Meiser, a LASD deputy.

After the indictment, which is 51 pages long, the criminal smuggling operation was allegedly orchestrated and checked by the Mexican prison gang. The long list of charges in the charges includes conspiracy for the sale of a controlled substance, participation in a criminal road gang sale of a controlled substance, conspiracy to inspect extortion, blackmail and participate in a criminal road band bodily harm, a controlled substance to a person in custody, Possession of the sale of a controlled substance, possession of a firearm by a criminal and illegal possession of ammunition.

Meiser was specially charged with a non-occupant in a criminal street gang.

The indictment describes a number of security videos that are said to speak to some other defendants in the case. He can be seen how he gives one of them a bag, and in another case he receives a plastic bag from a woman at a petrol station in Lancaster, which contained approximately a point of black tea heroin. He is then accused of having brought the bag to the North County Correctional Facility.

Each of the 18 defendants is due on March 27 in the city center of Los Angeles.