A Reading man serving time in a federal prison in Schuylkill County for drug trafficking has been indicted on a charge of having a weapon in the prison in Minersville.<\/p>\n
Ramsee Munoz, 35, is accused of having a roughly 6-inch metal object, sharpened on both sides with one side being serrated \u2014 commonly known as a shank \u2014 on Sept. 18, according to a release Wednesday from the United States Attorney\u2019s Office for the Middle District of Pennsylvania.<\/p>\n
Munoz was indicted on a count of possessing contraband.<\/p>\n
The Federal Bureau of Prisons and the FBI investigated the case.<\/p>\n
The maximum penalty under federal law for this offense is five years of imprisonment, a term of supervised release following\u00a0 imprisonment and a fine.<\/p>\n
Munoz pleaded guilty in U.S. District Court in 2024 to a charge of conspiracy to distribute a controlled substance and was sentenced to 87 months in prison.<\/p>\n
According to court documents:<\/p>\n
From April 2021 until his indictment in June 2022, Munoz conspired with others to distribute 500 grams of methamphetamine and 40 grams of fentanyl in Northumberland and Columbia counties.<\/p>\n
Munoz and his conspirators obtained the drugs from suppliers in Reading and drove the drugs to sellers and users in Sunbury, Shamokin and Mount Carmel.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A Reading man serving time in a federal prison in Schuylkill County for drug trafficking has been indicted…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":136491,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[349,202,182,139,28,736,128,130,129,231,706],"class_list":["post-136490","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-reading","tag-berks-county","tag-crime-and-public-safety","tag-local-news","tag-news","tag-pennsylvania","tag-reading","tag-reading-city","tag-reading-city-headlines","tag-reading-city-news","tag-schuylkill-county","tag-top-stories-reg"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/136490","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=136490"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/136490\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/136491"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=136490"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=136490"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=136490"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}