Ex-L.A. County deputy who smuggled heroin into a jail in Pringles cans sentenced to prison

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Set us as preferred A former Los Angeles County sheriff’s deputy has been sentenced to more than five years in federal prison for smuggling heroin inside a pair of Pringles’ potato chips cans into a jail complex in the Santa Clarita Valley, according to federal prosecutors.U.S.District Judge Fernando M.

Olgui sentenced 40-year-old Michael Meiser to 67 months in federal prison Thursday.Meiser pleaded guilty in July of last year to one count of possession with intent to distribute heroin at the North County Correctional Facility in Castaic, located about 40 miles northwest from downtown Los Angeles.The maximum-correctional facility is part of a larger jail complex known as Peter J.Pitchess Detention Center.Federal prosecutors said Mesier attempted to smuggle about 1 pound of heroin inside two Pringles potato chips cans into the county jail while he worked as part of an intelligence and investigative unit that monitored gang activity.Prosecutors said Mesier smuggled the narcotics for inmates in exchange for cash and payments through the Cash App, a digital wallet.

Inmates used the app to send $1,500 to a relative of Mesier, according to prosecutors.California A jury has awarded the mother of a man killed by San Bernardino County sheriff’s deputies more than $51 million in a federal civil trial.Not long after receiving the money, prosecutors said, Meiser drove his 2018 BMW 530i from his home in Lancaster to a Chevron gasoline station in Valencia, where he picked up a grocery bag from a woman related to an inmate.Inside, prosecutors said, were two Pringle’s canisters stuffed with 1.1 pounds of heroin.Sheriff’s officials said that inmates sell the heroin in tiny smears called “papers” and that the amount inside the canisters was worth about $226,000, according to federal and sheriff’s officials.Prosecutors said the...