Two Rikers Island correction officers pleaded guilty on Tuesday to smuggling drugs and cell phones to incarcerated gang members, each accepting thousands of dollars.
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New York City Correction Officer Katrina Patterson, 31, of Jamaica, New York, pleaded guilty to bribery, admitting that she accepted more than $34,000 in in exchange for smuggling narcotics and cell phones into Rikers Island for Michael Ross, a Bloods gang member incarcerated there on unrelated offenses, according to the release.
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