NEW YORK: A correction officer at Rikers Island has been busted for smuggling in contraband — this time a cell phone and marijuana, authorities said Tuesday.
Officer Tessie Clifton, 53, arranged to leave a cell phone inside a garbage can in the housing area where inmate Tyrone Williams, 26, was held last May, the Bronx District Attorney’s office said.
The officer had been sneaking marijuana stuffed inside her sock to Williams inside the Anna M. Kross Center for the previous month, prosecutors said.
Williams had set up meetings for his friend Jessenia Fajardo, 35, to deliver the weed to Clifton, according to court papers unsealed in Bronx Supreme Court.v
