"A youth development specialist at a Brooklyn juvenile detention center will spend a year and a day behind bars for smuggling in contraband including a crushed-up prescription painkiller that caused one of the young detainees to suffer a non-fatal overdose, according to the feds. Da'Vante Bolton, 32, of Queens, was sentenced Wednesday in Brooklyn Federal Court, after pleading guilty last year to taking bribes to smuggle pot, pills and scalpels into the Crossroads Juvenile Center in Brownsville,"
"and at one point in August 2023, that associate told Bolton he had yerks for em too, prosecutors detailed in a Sept. 17 letter to Judge Orelia Merchant. That was a reference to the prescription painkiller Percocet, which is a mix of oxycodone and acetaminophen, according to the feds. On Sept. 12, 2023, Bolton agreed to pick up the pills, which the detainee wanted crushed into powder, the feds allege."
Da'Vante Bolton, 32, a youth development specialist at Crossroads Juvenile Center in Brownsville, pleaded guilty to taking bribes to smuggle marijuana, pills and scalpels into the facility. Bolton accepted more than $20,000 in bribes from detainees, their associates or relatives between June 2022 and February 2024. In September 2023 he agreed to pick up Percocet pills to be crushed into powder; two days later a young detainee passed out and reported taking Percocet at Lincoln Hospital. Bolton was sentenced to a year and a day and ordered to forfeit more than $20,000. Two colleagues received probation and jail terms.
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