Drug smuggling officer is jailed
A PRISON officer from Calderdale and two others have been jailed for their involvement in smuggling drugs and illicit items into HMP Doncaster.
Prison officer Rio Moran, James Millington and Callum Reilly were part of a conspiracy to supply drugs and illicit items into a number of prisons, including HMP Doncaster, and launder the ill-gotten cash.
South Yorkshire Police’s Prison Anti-Corruption Unit arrested Moran as she arrived for work in November 2020. A substantial amount of drugs and phones were found following a search at her home address.
While officers were searching her home, Reilly turned up and tried to post further contraband through the front door.
HMP Doncaster inmate Millington was later identified as being the recipient of the items, and he was also arrested.
Moran, 30, of Godfrey Place, Sowerby Bridge, pleaded guilty to conspiring to supply class B drugs into prison, conspiring to convey list B articles into prison and money laundering at the earlier hearing.
She was sentenced to two years behind bars.
Millington, 31, of HMP
Leeds, pleaded guilty to being concerned in the supply of class B and C drugs into prison between 2017 and
2020, conspiring to supply class B drugs into prison and conspiring to convey list B articles into prison.
He was jailed for seven years and nine months.
Reilly, 30, of no fixed abode, but from the Stockport area, pleaded guilty to supplying a class B drug to Claire Anderson, conspiring to convey list B articles into prison and money laundering.
Reilly been sentenced to 12 months behind bars.
A substantial amount of drugs and phones were found following a search at her home address.