Maplewood Attorney Confesses to Smuggling Contraband into Essex County Jail

The local attorney pled guilty to smuggling marijuana and tobacco into the jail in exchange for cash payments of $500 a package. An attorney from Maplewood, New Jersey, today admitted his involvement in a scheme to smuggle contraband, including marijuana and tobacco, into the Essex County Jail, a federal pretrial detention facility, U.S. Attorney Paul J. Fishman announced.

Brian Kapalin, 67, pleaded guilty before U.S. District Judge Mary L. Cooper to an information charging him with one count of conspiring to smuggle contraband into a federal detention facility.

 

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