Selma woman sentenced for conspiring to smuggle drugs into state prison

A Selma woman has been sentenced to 35 months in prison for conspiring to smuggle drugs into a state prison.

According to the U.S. Attorney’s Office for the Southern District of Alabama, Haley Fuentes was sentenced in federal court for trying to smuggle drugs into the Fountain Correctional Facility in Atmore.

According to court documents, on March 27, 2022, a co-defendant, Robert O’Brien Rivers, an employee of the Alabama Department of Corrections, reported to for work at the prison. That morning, officers were performing searches of employees and vehicles as they arrived to work. During the search of Rivers’ food items, officers observed two black bowls containing frozen rice which had black taped objects underneath the rice. The taped objects contained 244 grams of methamphetamine and 510 grams of marijuana. 

Court documents showed that Rivers knowingly received the drugs from people outside the prison to smuggle to an inmate in the prison and that he had done so on multiple occasions.  Fuentes and a third co-defendant, Jarvis Callens, had provided drugs to Rivers to smuggle into the prison.

On December 25, 2021, Fuentes and Callens were stopped by a Monroe County Sheriff’s Office deputy with 165 grams of methamphetamine they were attempting to bring to Rivers so he could smuggle it into the prison. Law enforcement did not know at the time the methamphetamine was bound for Rivers. Rivers was previously sentenced to 54 months imprisonment and Callens was previously sentenced to 168 months for their roles in the conspiracy.  

— Information from the Office of the U.S. Attorney, Southern District of Alabama