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A Lino Lakes Correctional Facility Corrections officer has been arrested for allegedly trying to smuggle drugs into the prison.
Minu Yang, 27, has been charged with bringing contraband into a state prison where he had been working as a correctional officer.
Court documents allege investigators were tipped off on Oct. 19 about an “ongoing conspiracy” to smuggle controlled substances into the Lino Lakes facility.
While investigating the tip, authorities said they learned an incarcerated inmate at the facility, the prisoner’s mother and Yang had coordinated a plan to bring drugs into the facility.
Yang reportedly would have the drugs mailed to his home, after which he would soak the drugs onto nine sheets of beading paper and bring the paper to the prison on Monday.
On the day Yang was supposed to deliver the papers, court documents state he was arrested shortly after entering the Lino La...
