School Principal caught trying to smuggle heroin into prison

Sadie Silver 

A New York City elementary school principal has been arrested on charges of trying to smuggle drugs into a maximum-security upstate prison.

The Daily News reports (HTTP://NYDN.US/1RNLXCP ) that Public School 28 Principal Sadie Silver and a man she was with were arrested Friday after state police said they carried heroin and prescription drugs into the Coxsackie Correctional Facility.

According to New York State Police at Catskill, Sadie Silver, 40, and Michael Acosta, 34, were arrested after arriving at the facility to visit an inmate with heroin and suboxone, an opiate, which they were allegedly attempting to deliver. The pair had a 10-year-old child with them at the time.

Michael Acosta, 34, was charged with various crimes after allegedly trying to bring narcotics to an inmate at the Coxsackie Correctional Facility.

They were both charged with promoting prison contraband in the first degree, a class D felony, criminal possession of a controlled substance in the third degree, a class B felony, criminal possession of a controlled substance in the fifth degree, a class D felony, and endangering the welfare of a child, a class A misdemeanor.

Silver and Acosta were processed and arraigned before Justice Richard Roberg in the Town of Coxsackie court. Silver was remanded to the Greene County Jail in lieu of $5,000 cash bail or $10,000 bond. Acosta was remanded to the Greene County Jail in lieu of $15,000 cash bail or $30,000 bond. Both were issued tickets to appear in court at a later date.

State police were assisted in the arrests by the New York State Department of Corrections and Community Supervision, State Inspector General’s Office, and the Greene County District Attorney’s Office.

Silver and Acosta have been released on bond. Information on their attorneys was not available.

Education officials have reassigned Silver to an administrative center away from students.

Culled from HUFF POST