FORMER CITY CORRECTIONS DEPARTMENT COOK PLEADS GUILTY TO DRUG SMUGGLING CHARGES

Bronx District Attorney Robert T. Johnson announced today that 32 year-old Tracey Dailey, a former New York City Correction Department cook, has been convicted for attempting to smuggle cocaine to an inmate on Rikers Island.

Dailey, of 4-24 Astoria Boulevard, Queens, pled guilty to 1 count of Attempted Criminal Possession of a Controlled Substance in the 3rd degree. Under the terms of the plea agreement Dailey will be sentenced to a term of 2 to 6 years imprisonment when she appears before Acting State Supreme Court Justice Steve L. Barrett on Tuesday, September 16, 2003 in Part M60.

Dailey was arrested last May, following a 1 ½ month long investigation by The Department of Investigation’s Inspector General for the Department of Correction. On two occasions in November 2002, the defendant smuggled one ounce of simulated cocaine into the Eric M. Taylor Center (EMTC), Rikers Island facility, and accepted $600 from an undercover DOI investigator posing as the inmate’s girlfriend.

This case is being prosecuted by Assistant District Attorney Todd Sherman of the Rackets Bureau.