A Queens public defender was allegedly caught smuggling 130 sheets of suspected drug-soaked paper into a Rikers Island jail Wednesday afternoon.
Bernardo Caceres, an attorney with the controversial nonprofit Queens Defenders, was meeting his client, Luis DeJesus, at the Otis Bantum Correctional Center at around 3 p.m. when detectives noticed a suspicious detail.
Discolored papers soaked with suspected THC were found inside a yellow legal-sized envelope.
A drug-sniffing dog also signaled the presence of narcotics in one of the lawyer’s packages.
Caceres and another lawyer who happened to be going through security at the time were arrested. The second lawyer was eventually released after detectives determined he was unaware of the smuggling attempt.
After a test confirmed THC presence on the papers, Caceres was charged with “introducing contraband into a correction facility.”
