Daryl Campbell, 40, was sentenced\u00a0to an additional 37 months in prison for organizing to smuggle contraband into the Metropolitan Detention Center in Sunset Park. A lot of duct tape was involved.<\/p>\n
A Brooklyn man, who is currently an inmate at a federal jail in Sunset Park, on Friday was sentenced to additional months in prison for\u00a0for orchestrating a scheme to smuggle contraband into the Metropolitan Detention Center.\u00a0<\/p>\n
Daryl Campbell, 40, was sentenced\u00a0to 37 months in prison for organizing a group of Brooklyn residents to help smuggle contraband into the federal jail complex. Campbell pleaded guilty in September 2025 to conspiracy to possess contraband. The sentence imposed on Friday will run consecutive to the 35-year term he is serving for a manslaughter conviction in New York County, according to\u00a0Joseph Nocella, Jr., United States Attorney for the Eastern District of New York.<\/p>\n
Between April and June 2024, Campbell used a contraband cell phone to send detailed instructions to his co-conspirators on how to bring additional contraband into the MDC, according to prosecutors.\u00a0<\/p>\n
As the organizer of the scheme, Campbell advised his co-conspirators on how to package contraband, to deliver it to the MDC, and to get it into the jail, providing advice and guidance along the way as to how to accomplish each step in the process. For example, in\u00a0several voice recordings, Campbell explained his method of throwing a \u201cline\u201d out of a window of the MDC on to which a co-conspirator on the outside was to \u201chook\u201d contraband, which could then be pulled back inside, prosecutors said.<\/p>\n
On June 30, 2024, Carl Kelly of Long Island,\u00a0Ian Diez, Jonathan Guerrero, Abel Mora, and Mayovanex Rodriguez, the latter four all from Brooklyn, attempted to execute Campbell\u2019s scheme. Kelly approached the front of the MDC and threw a rope made of duct tape up to the fourth floor, where Diez, Guerrero, Mora, and Rodriguez tried to pull it through the window of the recreation room in their housing area. Inside of the rope, correctional officers found papers laced with MDMB-4en-Pinaca (a synthetic cannabinoid), suboxone, marijuana, a scalpel, a phone charger, lighters and cigarettes, prosecutors said.<\/p>\n
\u201cThe message to inmates from today\u2019s sentencing is clear: go fishing for contraband, and all you will catch is another prison term,\u201d Nocella said in a statement. \u201cThe smuggling of drugs and weapons by inmates compromises the safety and security of the MDC. Our office will continue to ensure that any inmates who smuggle contraband will be prosecuted and face the consequences.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Daryl Campbell, 40, was sentenced\u00a0to an additional 37 months in prison for organizing to smuggle contraband into the…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":250800,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[36],"tags":[98,100,99,72440,9,24,63],"class_list":["post-250799","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-brooklyn","tag-brooklyn","tag-brooklyn-headlines","tag-brooklyn-news","tag-daryl-campbell","tag-new-york","tag-new-york-city","tag-nyc"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/250799","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=250799"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/250799\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/250800"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=250799"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=250799"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=250799"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}