BROOKLYN: Correctional Officer Got $10,000 For Smuggling Drugs, Cell Phones Into Federal Jail

SUNSET PARK (BROOKLYN) NY: A federal correctional officer slipped drugs into Brooklyn’s troubled Metropolitan Detention Center in exchange for $10,000, prosecutors allege.

Jeremy Monk, 31, resigned three days later, telling human resources staff he was quitting over “some stupid investigation,” federal prosecutors charged.

Ex-Officer Monk is a Brooklyn resident and was charged in Brooklyn Federal Court.

He could face up to five years behind bars.

Metropolitan Detention Center staff got a tip that Mr. Monk had been paid $10,000 to smuggle drugs, alcohol and tobacco into the jail in a black bag, according to a federal complaint.

The break in the case came when jail staff searched the cell of a racketeering suspect after smelling marijuana.

They found a cell phone — and then the prisoner turned state's evidence against Officer Monk, according to a complaint.

Officer Monk was selling drugs, cell phones and tobacco, using the inmate’s romantic partner as a go-between, prosecutors allege.

Mr. Monk, who’s now working in a hospital as a behavioral health associate, was ordered released on a $50,000 bond.