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Mark Anthony Figueroa
A Hudson County Division of Corrections officer faces as much as five a long time in jail and can be barred without end from general public work when he is sentenced Thursday for dealing medication, officers mentioned.
Mark Anthony Figueroa, 32, of Bayonne, will likely be sentenced at 9 a.m. by Exceptional Court docket Choose Kevin Callahan under a take care of prosecutors through which he pleaded responsible to drug possession with intent to distribute inside five hundred ft of general public property, Hudson County Prosecutor Edward DeFazio said.
Figueroa, who was arrested in October, faces around five many years in prison, without any minimal amount of time he should serve prior to turning out to be suitable for parole, DeFazio stated. Figueroa pleaded responsible on July 8.
The corrections officer allegedly bought cannabis from an undercover detective and it had been all data program believed the pot was to be smuggled in the Hudson County jail in Kearny, officers mentioned at the time. Police also identified extra pot within a blue balloon, at the same time as three glassine envelopes that contains heroin, officials explained.
Figueroa was at first billed with six more drug counts, officials said, also as endangering the welfare of a child and child abuse, for allegedly obtaining his 6-year-old child with him when he produced the drug bargain.
Figueroa experienced x-prog been a county corrections officer 7 years, Hudson County Division of Corrections Director Oscar Aviles explained on the time.
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