Suffolk jail guard already charged with having sex with an inmate now also charged with bringing drugs into the jail

Marlon Juba, a guard at the South Bay House of Corrections who was charged last year with having sexual relations with a female inmate faces arraignment today on charges he worked with a male inmate to smuggle drugs and other illegal stuff into the jail, the Suffolk County District Attorney's office reports.

Marlon Juba, 30, was arraigned in Suffolk Superior Court today on one count of conspiracy to violate the state’s drug laws, three counts of unlawful delivery of items to or from an inmate, three counts of delivering or possessing with intent to deliver drugs to an inmate and three counts of distribution of a Class B substance, the DA's office reports.

Zenon "Doughboy" Rodriguez, 26, the inmate with whom he allegedly worked, was also arraigned today on one count of conspiracy to violate the state’s drug laws, three counts of unlawful delivery of items to or from an inmate, five counts of delivering or possessing with intent to deliver drugs to an inmate, four counts of distribution of a Class B substance, two counts of witness intimidation and single counts of threats and one count of violating a restraining order.

Juba had bail set at $5,000; Rodriguez at $25,000. The two were indicted by a Suffolk County grand jury earlier this month.

According to the DA's office:

Based on evidence and testimony developed in the course of a grand jury investigation with critical assistance from the Suffolk Sheriff’s Investigative Division, Boston Police, and civilian investigators assigned to the DA’s Narcotics Unit, [Assistant DA Lindsey] Weinstein told the court that Juba and Rodriguez cooperated to bring drugs and other contraband into the South Bay House of Correction in the spring of 2016.

Specifically, Weinstein said, Rodriguez communicated with two friends on various telephone lines to coordinate meetings in which Juba would interact with Rodriguez at the corrections officers’ desk and then take a break from his shift, drive to a nearby fast food restaurant, and meet up with Zenon’s associates. Those associates, Weinstein said, provided him with bags of food – along with “K2” synthetic marijuana, cigarettes, cocaine, cell phone, chargers, and/or Suboxone strips. Juba would return to South Bay with the items and provide them to Rodriguez, who would distribute them.

Rodriguez allegedly told a witness over a recorded jail line not to cooperate with investigators and, on a later date after his release, threatened and intimidated the witness. This witness obtained a restraining order against him, which Rodriguez allegedly violated by calling the witness from a phone in a police station booking room after his arrest.

Innocent, etc.