An Albany lady pleaded responsible on Tuesday to mailing drug-soaked paperwork to inmates in correctional amenities in New York, in accordance with federal prosecutors.
Authorities stated Maya McIntosh, 33, offered the illicit paperwork on social media — and disguised them as authorized paperwork when she despatched them.
McIntosh, 33, pleaded responsible to “conspiracies to fabricate, distribute and possess with intent to distribute a managed substance and managed substance analogue, distribution and possession with intent to distribute a managed substance and managed substance analogue, and illegal possession and use of a way of identification,” the U.S. Legal professional’s Workplace for the Northern District of New York stated in a press release on Tuesday.
Officers stated McIntosh ordered chemical substances used to create MDMB-4en-PINACA, an artificial cannabinoid, in liquid kind after which “sprayed and soaked the liquid onto copy paper and enterprise envelopes,” the lawyer’s workplace stated.
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The paperwork had been positioned in U.S. Precedence Mail Categorical envelopes and addressed to inmates at varied correctional amenities in New York, prosecutors stated.
McIntosh disguised the envelopes as authorized mail by “stamping the names of precise attorneys within the return deal with portion of the envelopes” with out the attorneys’ data or permission, in accordance with prosecutors.
This technique allowed for the drug-soaked paperwork to look as in the event that they had been despatched by attorneys and “contained professional authorized paperwork as a substitute of a managed substance,” the U.S. lawyer’s workplace stated.
Officers stated McIntosh used social media to promote the sheets and envelopes, with clients paying her to mail the paperwork to inmates at correctional amenities, the prosecutors stated.
McIntosh is believed to have despatched the drug-soaked papers between January 2023 by means of July 2024, prosecutors stated.
McIntosh faces as much as 20 years of imprisonment in every rely, a most nice of $1 million on the drug counts, a nice of $250,000 on the remaining counts and a time period of supervised launch of at the very least three years and as much as life, the U.S. lawyer’s workplace stated.
America Postal Inspection Service and Homeland Safety Investigations are persevering with to research the case.
