Former Deputy Sentenced For Smuggling Drugs Into Lockup

A former Los Angeles County sheriff's deputy who smuggled drugs into a courthouse lockup, hiding the contraband inside a burrito, was ordered today to spend two years in custody.

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Henry Marin, 27, was sentenced immediately after pleading no contest to one count of bringing drugs into a jail. He withdrew an earlier no-contest plea to two charges that left his punishment to the discretion of the judge.

The sheriff's department provides law-enforcement services to Diamond Bar.

Although Los Angeles Superior Court Judge Anne Egerton sentenced him to prison, he will serve the time in county jail.

Marin accepted the heroin-laden burrito from an unidentified woman at the Airport Branch Courthouse in Los Angeles on Feb. 23, 2010, according to prosecutors. As part of the plea deal, a conspiracy charge against Marin was dropped.

He resigned from the Sheriff's Department on April 24.