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An Owings Mills man has been sentenced to more than three years in federal prison for a racketeering conspiracy. (Shutterstock)
OWINGS MILLS, MD – An Owings Mills man has been sentenced to more than three years in federal prison for a racketeering conspiracy.
Chaz Chriscoe, 40, will also have three years of supervised release from the Jessup Correctional Institution, the Maryland U.S. Attorney s Office announced Wednesday. Officials said the conspiracy included former correctional officers, inmates and outside facilitators, like Chriscoe, who paid bribes to correctional officers to smuggle contraband, including narcotics, alcohol, tobacco and cell phones into the prison.
On May 3, JCI inmate Darnell Smith, 40, pleaded guilty to his role in the racketeering conspiracy. He faces up to 20 years in prison.