JAIL OFFICIALS INDICTED

MIAMI, Fla., Dec. 4 (UPI) - A major drug ring operating within two Miami-
Dade County jails has been busted with the indictments and arrests of 26
people, including nine corrections officers and a jail counselor.

The FBI says that in addition to smuggling drugs, inmates, officers and
others were charged with illegally bringing in cigarettes, food and even
exercise equipment.

Cigarettes were selling for $175 a carton because they are used as currency
in the facility.

Those indicted included Euardo Manzano, who the FBI says is the head of the
elaborate operation.

Most of the suspects were charged with smuggling cocaine and marijuana into
the Turner Guilford Knight Correctional Facility for Manzano both for his
personal use and for distribution to other inmates.

They say corrections officials also smuggled cellular telephones into the
jail, moved Manzano to cellblocks were corrections officers would overlook
his activities, allowed him to use office telephones and provided him with
sensitive information.