New York Daily News

‘Horse’ burrito plot snared cop

- Philip Caulfield With News Wire Services

A DIMWITTED former sheriff’s deputy in Los Angeles will spend two years behind bars for trying to slip courthouse jail prisoners a burrito stuffed with heroin.

Henry Marin, 27, was sentenced Monday after pleading guilty to smuggling drugs into a jail.

The former deputy was nailed in a sting operation at the Airport Branch Courthouse in February 2010.

Prosecutor­s said Marin accepted the drug-filled Mexican staple from a woman working with a sheriff’s team investigat­ing smuggling at the courthouse.

The bean-and-cheese burrito was filled with 24 grams of black tar heroin, according to the Los Angeles Times.

Marin later said he didn’t know the burrito was stuffed with smack.

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