Security News in Brief: State Inmate Sentenced to Federal Prison for Arranging Sale of a Firearm and Meth Sales from Behind Bars

Source: United States Department of Justice News

PROVIDENCE, R.I. – A Rhode Island state prison inmate who arranged by telephone from within the prison to sell a firearm and methamphetamine to an individual outside the prison whose telephone number he was provided by a fellow inmate was sentenced on Monday to 48 months in federal prison on firearm and drug trafficking charges, announced Acting United States Attorney Richard B. Myrus.