Ex-RI Correctional Officer Sentenced For Smuggling Drugs Into Prison

CENTRAL FALLS, RI — A former federal correctional officer at the Donald W. Wyatt Detention Facility in Central Falls was sentenced to six months in prison for smuggling drugs into the prison.

Kali Almeida-Falcones, 30, of Smithfield, was sentenced last week and pleaded guilty in June to providing contraband to an inmate.

In February 2021, two inmates housed at the Wyatt Detention Center communicated with a former detainee and another person outside the facility to have Almeida-Falcones smuggle drugs into the prison, prosecutors said. Prosecutors said a strip search of a detainee revealed a package containing the drugs smuggled by Almeida-Falcones, which were confirmed to be controlled substances by lab testing.

Additional controlled substances smuggled into the facility were found in the cell of another detainee, concealed inside a pillowcase. Prosecutors said Almeida-Falcones is seen on Wyatt Detention security video entering each of the detainees cells the evening before.

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