COLUMBUS — Federal prosecutors say a prison kitchen worker from Columbus and five inmates worked together to smuggle drugs into an Ohio prison.
An indictment announced Thursday accuses the six men of conspiring to distribute cocaine, methamphetamine, marijuana and Suboxone, a drug used to help kick opioid addiction but also can be abused.
The U.S. Attorney’s Office in Columbus says the men smuggled the drugs into London Correctional Institution.
Authorities say Joseph Brodbeck, 59, of Columbus, was a contract employee with the prison’s food service company and worked in the prison kitchen. The other five were each inmates of the prison at one time and allegedly paid Brodbeck for the drugs.
All six are charged with one count of conspiring to possess with intent to distribute narcotics. They face up to 20 years in prison.