SCRANTON — A former Lackawanna County Prison contract employee pleaded guilty Tuesday to participating in a scheme to bring drugs into the prison, the United States Attorney’s Office for the Middle District of Pennsylvania announced today.
Brenda Cruise, 48, of Dunmore, admitted in federal court to her involvement in bringing marijuana, synthetic marijuana, suboxone and tobacco to inmates between February 2018 and December 2018, according to the Department of Justice.
Cruise faces up to five years in prison.
— FRANK WILKES LESNEFSKY