An inmate who conspired with two other people to smuggle heroin and oxycodone into the county jail in a bottle of denture adhesive was sentenced to five years in state prison after pleading guilty Tuesday in Washington County Circuit Court.
Circuit Judge Daniel P. Dwyer sentenced Michael Eugene Stone, 32, to 12 years in prison with seven years suspended after Stone pleaded guilty to possession with intent to distribute heroin.
Dwyer also sentenced Stone to a concurrent three years in prison after he pleaded guilty to an unrelated charge of possession of contraband in a place of confinement.
On Feb. 18, 2016, Anthony D. Goles, an inmate at the Washington County Detention Center, was found unconscious in his cell from a drug overdose. He was revived with Narcan and taken to Meritus Medical Center, according to court records.
At the hospital, police found two pieces of latex glove in Goles' underwear containing heroin and oxycodone, court records said.
He told investigators that Stone wanted him to help smuggle drugs into the jail in a container of his denture adhesive. Goles said he feared Stone, who was a member of the prison gang Dead Men Inc.
Stone used another inmate's telephone account to instruct Naome Ann Burker on how to open the denture-adhesive container, put the drugs inside and reseal the box so that tampering could not be detected, according to charging documents.
She dropped the box off at the jail on the night of Feb. 17. Staff members at the jail gave it to Goles on the morning of Feb. 18.
Stone came to Goles' cell, taking a portion of the heroin and about 30 of the 40 oxycodone pills from the bottle. Goles snorted half a gram of heroin and passed out, the documents said.
Goles and Burker both entered plea agreements and received 18-month sentences.
In the unrelated contraband case, Stone had originally been charged with second-degree assault, carrying a dangerous weapon and possession of a weapon in a pace of confinement, according to court records.
He entered an amended plea to the contraband charge, which stemmed from a July 17, 2016, incident.
On that day, Stones attacked another inmate with a sharpened metal rod, stabbing the man in the shoulder and cutting his head, Assistant State's Attorney Elizabeth Camuti told Dwyer.
At the time of the heroin-smuggling incident, Stone was in jail on assault charges that were later dismissed, according to defense attorney Stephen Sacks.
Stone, who suffers from drug addiction, will seek a drug evaluation while in prison, Sacks told the judge.
Known as an 8-505 evaluation, it can lead to an inmate's sentence modification to long-term, inpatient treatment, if it shows he or she would benefit from such a program.
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