Crime & Safety
LA Custody Assistant Pleads No Contest To Bringing Drugs Into Jail
An employee of the Los Angeles County sheriff's Department was sentenced after he attempted to sneak methamphetamines into a jail facility.
LOS ANGELES, CA — A Los Angeles County sheriff's custody assistant on Friday pleaded no contest trying to bring methamphetamine into a jail facility nearly four years ago.
Jose Flores, 43, was sentenced to 300 hours of community service and two years of probation after he pleaded to one felony count of attempting to bring methamphetamines into Men's Central Jail in 2018, according to the Los Angeles County District Attorney's Office.
Flores was intercepted by law enforcement officers in the jail's parking structure on Nov. 28, 2018. Police recovered more than 100 grams of methamphetamine, found inside the vehicle he was in, according to the District Attorney's Office.
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His current status with the sheriff's department was not immediately available.
"Someone who tries to smuggle drugs into a jail is betraying the public's trust and creates an unsafe environment," District Attorney George Gascón said in a statement announcing Flores' plea. "My office strives to hold all public employees accountable when they break the law."
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